Seeing Luo Chao and Nicholas Mirotic at each other's throats, seemingly ready to co to blows at any mont, the oldest person present, Jiang Lianqing, stepped forward.
Jiang Lianqing slowly walked between Luo Chao and Nicholas Mirotic and spoke in a very amicable tone, "You two needn't be so heated. Give so face, and let this old man share his views on Chinese and Western dicine!"
Seeing Jiang Lianqing step up, Luo Chao composed himself.
Although, nominally, Jiang Lianqing, despite being eighty years old, is Luo Chao's apprentice, Luo Chao has never truly regarded Jiang Lianqing as such.
On the contrary, Luo Chao holds Jiang Lianqing in high esteem.
Luo Chao has always been a young man who respects the elderly and cares for the young, especially facing soone like Jiang Lianqing, rich in life experience and erudition. Luo Chao respects Jiang Lianqing greatly, so he imdiately stopped.
As for Nicholas Mirotic on the other side, he was just putting on a show of bravado. Those muscles of his were alright for gym equipnt, but when it ca to real fights, they were useless.
Fighting mainly depends on one's experience and ruthlessness. Even a muscular person might not have an advantage against soone experienced in fighting, especially when the opponent is soone like Luo Chao, the Soldier King of Huaxia's Dragon Fang Team!
Seeing both calm down, Jiang Lianqing began to speak in his weathered voice, "From my many years of life experience, I recall that in my era of old Chinese dicine, treating illnesses was simple and cheap."
"Firstly, every Chinese doctor was a general practitioner, treating everything from five senses, five organs, trauma, obstetrics, pediatrics, to cold and heat syndros and lumps - nothing was beyond their scope!"
"Secondly, Chinese dicine required no instrunts; diagnosis was made through observation, listening, inquiry, and pulse-taking. Moreover, the sources of Chinese dicine were easily accessible and cheap, often everyday foods or herbs found on the mountain or even by the roadside!"
"Lastly, Chinese dicine didn't need complex tools or surgeries; a single Silver Needle could stimulate the ridians and treat many diseases."
"However, with the advent of Western dicine, everything beca complex and expensive. You never know which departnt's doctor to see, and often a single specialist can't fully treat your illness."
"Without instrunts, Western dicine is like a fool, unable to diagnose any illness; without pharmaceutical factories, it's like an idiot, unable to treat any illness; without various complex tools, it's like a cripple, unable to do anything!"
"Contemporary Western dicine started with dissecting corpses and gained its healing ability with the invention of antibiotics. Western dicine sees only dead, isolated organs, tissues, and cells. It misses the living, internal relationships of yin and yang, the Five Elents, and the connections between ridians, acupuncture points, qi, and blood organs!"
"Therefore, I say, Western dicine is clueless about the science of human life. They treat the human body like a machine, using instrunts to check which part is broken, thinking that swapping or cleaning parts solves it. But they don't grasp how complex the human body and life are beyond this chanical viewpoint!"
Luo Chao and the Huaxia Chinese dicine practitioners nodded repeatedly upon hearing Jiang Lianqing's words.
With his years of life experience and clever taphors, Jiang Lianqing articulated the distinctions between Chinese and Western dicine vividly and reasonably, even convincing soone like Luo Chao, who usually loved debating and reasoning!
"Hmph, you old fellow, you're saying all this, and I admit our Western dicine does rely on instrunts, but that's science! Yet, your Chinese dicine, relying on experience and so acupuncture and massage to heal, I won't comnt. But this guy ntioned the Three Souls and Seven Spirits earlier; I'd like to ask you all, is this Chinese dicine or superstition?!"
Despite this, Nicholas Mirotic remained unconvinced and questioned further.
"Mr. Nicholas Mirotic, I can tell you unequivocally, the Three Souls and Seven Spirits I ntioned are not superstition but a mysticism that modern science cannot yet explain!" Luo Chao said confidently.
"In our Chinese dical theory, when a person is about to die, the Seven Spirits scatter first, followed by the Three Souls. Illnesses occur when the Spirits scatter, so dication is needed to stop it from dispersing. If both the Spirits and Power Spirits scatter, it easily leads to possession by ghosts!"
"Of course, in your Western terms, that possession can be seen as a kind of ntal illness!"
Luo Chao deliberately referred to it as a ntal illness because he knew that soone like Nicholas Mirotic, who'd never seen a ghost, wouldn't believe in possession and might accuse him of promoting superstition!
Seeing Nicholas Mirotic silent, Luo Chao continued, "In Chinese dical theory, a person's spirit can be terd as the Soul. The Soul consists of three parts: the Heaven Soul, Earth Soul, and Life Soul, and the Spirits are seven: One is Sky Charge, two is Cleverness, three is Qi, four is Power, five is Pivot, six is Essence, and seven is Hero."
"We Huaxia people often say a child has lost their soul, or a woman's gaze captivates the soul, or soone else's soul was taken by a fox spirit. These aren't just jokes but possess actual physiological and pathological significance!"
"We in Chinese dicine believe a person has Three Souls: the nas are Tai Guang, Shuang Ling, and You Jing, these are the three components of the divine."
"If one soul is lost, it's still fine; losing two, one can survive. But lose all three, and the person becos a living corpse!"
"Do you know what the standard for determining life and death is in Chinese dicine? Modern dicine, that is, your Western dicine, used to determine life and death by the heartbeat and breathing twenty or thirty years ago."
"Later, it was discovered that many without a heartbeat or breath were revived after a long ti, so they changed the standard to brain death."
"But many judged brain-dead, vegetative by your Western dicine were revived by Chinese dicine, leaving you Western doctors puzzled about how to determine life and death!"
"In contrast, Chinese dicine believes that when a person loses their spirit, even if their flesh continues to walk, move, eat, and drink, they are already dead!"
"As a Huaxia poem beautifully says, 'So people are alive, but they have already died!' Among the Three Souls, Tai Guang is the most crucial, the light of life. If it's gone, so is the person!"
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