The Introduction Of Modern Western Medicine And In Medicine

the importation of western medicine in modern times and its influences on Chinese material medicaThe invasion of western imperialism induced to the changes of China in politics ,economy and culture after the Opium War.Pharmacy followed western imperialism and missionaries to China.As a method of science and technology, pharmacy offered objectly fast and utility means of treatment for Chinese.But the same time, its importation and popularity in China leaded to huge impact on Chinese material medica, even to the perished situation.After the Opium War, western missionaries came to China in succession. They set up clinics,hospitals,foreign trades,drugstores and pharmaceutical factorys.They established colleges of western medicine and translated pharmacy books. They also attracted Chinese students studying abroad to learn western medicine.Through the above channels, pharmacy was imported to China and accepted gradually by Chinese scholars and people.When foreign missionaries imported pharmacy,the government of the Qing Dynasty and medical circle imitated western countries to establish colleges of western medicine and pharmaceutical factorys,translate and compile pharmacy books, whose quantities was more than that of wastern countries.Because Chinese had felt the shortcomings of TCM through being contrasted to the features and the real therapeutic effects of western medicine and also saw China lagging far behind western countries,they intrduced, studyed and popularized pharmacy as a kind of advanced medical treatment and technology instead of rejected it at the beginning.Some scholars popularized western medicine instead of missionaries, so it would make pharmacy easier to be spreaded in China.Certainly, that was the initial purpose of western imperialism who wanted western medicine to permeate the Chinese minds and then dumped their goods.Because the people's need for treatment and the scholar's hunger for study, pharmacy was imported quickly and fiercely to China after the Opium War.Besides those scholars themselves of learning western medicine,some scholars of TCM and people payed more attention to pharmacy than Traditional Chinese hebals.The influences which the importation of pharmacy were followed:that broke thoroughly the situation of the TCM's dominant position;that changed the theory of TCM and created several different thoughts;under the common endeavour of pharmacologist homecoming and the influence of pharmacy,the books , periodicals and organizations about Traditional Chinese hebals were founded, Chinese hebals were researched by the methods of science and technology,the branchs of Chinese...