Who was the first person in history to propose the abolition or replacement of traditional Chinese medicine?

The "Abolition of Traditional Chinese Medicine Case" proposed during the Nationalist Government aimed at outlawing traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, it was an extreme move in the process of promoting Western medicine into China.

In 1929, Chu Minyi, then a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang (who received a doctorate in medicine while studying abroad), and his backer, Wang Jingwei, then President of the Executive Yuan, used this to make a big fuss and advocate comprehensive Westernization. Yu Yunxiu, who studied in Japan to study Western medicine and was a member of the Health Special Committee of the Ministry of the Interior of the Nationalist Government at the time, was a representative figure of the group that abolished traditional Chinese medicine. He equated traditional Chinese medicine with witchcraft and wanted to eliminate it quickly.

Yu Yunxiu’s four reasons for “abolition of traditional Chinese medicine” are mainly:

1. The theories of traditional Chinese medicine are all absurd and bizarre;

2. The pulse method of traditional Chinese medicine is based on The science of Wei Hou deceives itself and others;

3. Traditional Chinese medicine cannot prevent epidemics;

4. The pathogenic theory of traditional Chinese medicine hinders scientificization. He has repeatedly declared that the purpose of the proposal is to gradually eliminate traditional Chinese medicine: one is to allow it to die of old age and die naturally; the other is not to allow schools to operate, leaving no successors. The leading group of the National Government, which was dominated by those who studied abroad, and some people who were influenced by the radical practices of the New Culture Movement, strongly supported the "abolition of traditional Chinese medicine".

It must be said that there is indeed a progressive idea of ??learning Western medicine, but the ban on traditional Chinese medicine is the result of its extreme approach. But it is also the reason why Chinese medicine was covered with the veil of feudal superstition during the Republic of China and even during the long-term feudal society.

We should use modern scientific methods to develop traditional Chinese medicine, but we should not ban it and expel it from the medical system. Since the beginning of the new century, some scholars have continued to propose the abolition of Western medicine, but they all consider it from a medical perspective. They believe that traditional Chinese medicine should launch a treatment system and enter a conditioning and nursing system.

Among them, I remember that in 2006, medical experts across the country signed a petition, and later Fang Zhouzi made similar remarks in a high-profile manner. But these are small things and cannot be abolished.