How About Anecdotes ?

After reading my blog, a netizen commented:

“Respecting science and facts is our proper attitude ”!

I replied: You are right! 

But some pseudo scholars who always want to ruin our

TCM ( Traditional Chinese Medicine )describe all facts 

of effective treatment of diseases by our TCM as 

 "Individual Cases" ,  "Anecdotes"  or "Personal 

Experience",and assert that these facts are meaningless

to prove the curative effect , and all facts are "Efficacy 

Hallucinations" ! 

Is it true?!

And even if TCM treatment is really " Anecdotes ", is

"Anecdotes" really of no academic value ?

Now, let's talk about  an " Anecdotes ":

As we know, smallpox used to be a highly contagious disease, which claimed hundreds of millions of lives.

At the end of the 18th century, the British doctor Jenner

learned a commonly accepted statement among the 

dairy women and farmers in the region he was in:

“ Cowpox is  a minor disease of cattle , but  it can  also 

be transmitted to people. If one is infected with cowpox, 

he will never get smallpox again.”

Should this be regarded as a kind of " Anecdotes " at 

that time ?

However, Jenner  realized that vaccinating people with

vaccinia was a safe way to immunize them against 

smallpox if this Anecdotes  the local dairy workers and

farmers said were right.

So he made a careful investigation and study of this

Anecdotes . In 1796, he was finally convinced that the statements in these Anecdotes  were correct , so he

decided to test them directly .

In this way, Doctor Jenner carried out rational analysis,

scientific experiments, and careful evaluation of such

 "Anecdotes ", and finally effectively promoted the

development of human immunology, effectively 

promoted the development of medical science, and

effectively ended the deadly infectious disease of 

smallpox !

However, some of pseudo scholars around us are always 

so dismissive of the "Anecdotes " of our own TCM, so 

that they have always lagged far behind others in

professional level.

In fact, if any doctor really puts patients in his heart, 

he will cherish any effective treatment case, never

distinguish whether the treatment case is from TCM 

or western medicine, or whether the treatment case 

is from the East or the West, even if it is just an

"Anecdotes"! .

Because medical science is to treat diseases , other 

words are all cumbersome !

----------- Written on September 3, 2021