During the period of 1929, Chu Minyi, then an executive member of the Kuomintang Central Committee (who received his doctorate while studying abroad) and Wang Jingwei, then the "President of the Executive Yuan", made a big fuss and advocated total westernization. Yu Yunxiu, who studied western medicine in Japan and was then a member of the Health Special Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the National Government, was a representative figure who abolished the school of traditional Chinese medicine. He equated Chinese medicine with witchcraft, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly.
Yu Yunxiu's four reasons for "abolishing Chinese medicine" are:
1. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine is absurd and bizarre;
2. Pulse diagnosis in TCM is self-deception, because it has knowledge of latitude and climate;
3. Chinese medicine cannot prevent diseases;
4. The theory of pathogenic factors in TCM does not encourage scientific research. He has repeatedly declared that the purpose of the proposal is to phase out Chinese medicine: one will die of old age and natural death; They are not allowed to run schools and leave no successors. The leading group of the national government, which is dominated by overseas students, and some people affected by the extreme practices of the New Culture Movement strongly support the "abolition of Chinese medicine".
It must be said that learning western medicine does have progressive ideas, but banning Chinese medicine is the result of its radical approach. But this is also related to the reason why Chinese medicine was veiled with feudal superstition during the Republic of China and even in the long feudal society.
We should use modern scientific methods to develop Chinese medicine, but we should not ban it and expel it from the medical system. Since the beginning of the new century, scholars have been proposing the abolition of western medicine, but all from the medical point of view. They believe that Chinese medicine should introduce the treatment system and enter the nursing system.
Among them, I remember that in 2006, there was a joint signature time of national medical experts, and later the party also made similar high-profile remarks. However, it is also a trivial matter and cannot be abolished.