The research on the traditional Chinese medicine “Liver Pill” has reached the international stage, and Dr. Sheng-Pu, a Chinese medicine practitioner, is most pleased and impressed. He is not only a well-known authority on liver disease in Taiwan, but also has more than 30 years of experience in using liver pills, and it has been his dream for many years to “prove the effectiveness of liver pills by scientific methods”.
“The treasure of China is Chinese herbal medicine.” After years of practicing medicine and encountering countless patients suffering from liver disease, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee has seen too many knowledgeable people who would rather have their liver disease worsen to the point of liver replacement than take Chinese herbal medicine or advertisements because they think Chinese medicine has no scientific basis.
“The medical ethics, but also the medical skills; the effectiveness of drugs, then the price of drugs. Medicine is medicine, and effective is effective, and there should be no distinction between Chinese and Western medicine.” In Taiwan, many people suffering from liver disease often use both Chinese and Western medicine, but the Western medical system does not recommend Chinese medicine to treat liver disease, so many patients secretly take Chinese medicine or even Chinese herbal medicine from unknown sources without the knowledge of the Western medical practitioners, resulting in delays and affecting the overall image of Chinese medicine practitioners.
Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee has been aware of this problem for a long time. As a clinical Chinese medicine practitioner, he knew that Chinese medicine was effective, but he could not prove it by himself; he needed the support of academic and research institutions to prove the effectiveness of Chinese medicine in a scientific way. As early as 1974, he went to Las Vegas to attend the World Congress of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in the U.S., Korea in ’76, and Tokyo Medical University in ’78, he actively tried to find research institutions to invest in related research, but he was unable to do so.
The idea of “scientifically proving that Chinese medicine works” has been fermenting in Li Shenpu’s mind until recent years, when the initial results were finally achieved. The research conducted by a female scientist from Taiwan, M. Yang, at USC, was accepted by the International Symposium on Alcoholic Liver and Pancreatic Damage and Sclerosis (ALPD) in Japan and presented in Kobe last month. It has been 30 years since Shen-Pu Lee started making drugs at the age of 37.
The purpose of cell testing and animal testing is to bring new drugs to market, but traditional Chinese herbal medicine is just the opposite, it is to take old and ancient recipes that have been used for decades or even thousands of years and test them in a scientific way that meets the standards of Western medicine. To Shen-Pu Li, he knows that liver pills are effective from his years of experience, but he does not know what they are. Now, through animal testing, the efficacy of liver pills is made transparent, so that all people can eradicate their doubts about Chinese medicine from their hearts.
“Is Chinese medicine really effective? This is a question that has been repeatedly questioned by Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee over the past decades of his medical practice. In his view, yes, herbs and prescriptions are not to be trusted, there must be scientific evidence. Since the clinical experience of Chinese medicine is not recognized by the Western medical system, we should follow the rules of the game of Western medicine and do cell tests, animal tests, and human tests to prove it step by step, “I must do human trials – Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine are not afraid of being tested, but of no one coming to test them.”
In Taiwan’s Chinese medicine community, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee is a rather unique practitioner. He has his own brand, his own pharmaceutical company, and advertises on TV, but in private he is a scientifically minded, athletic, and Taoist person. He has been a Chinese medicine practitioner all his life and almost equates it with liver pills, but as a child he despised his grandfather, who was a Chinese medicine practitioner, because his idol Sun Yat-sen said “Chinese medicine is not scientific”. Who knew that, decades later, Sun’s granddaughter would become a patient of the child who had scoffed at Chinese medicine?
Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said that even though many people look down on Chinese medicine, he is honored to be a Chinese medicine practitioner who has passed down the tradition for 50 years. He believes that Chinese medicine will make great contributions to the health of all mankind, and in an era when the global pharmaceutical industry is experiencing a bottleneck in development, Chinese herbal medicine is the hope for the future; the research he is doing now, in retrospect, is only a small step in proving the effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine. This is his account of his half-century of devotion to Chinese medicine, and it is also the historical responsibility of Chinese people in this century.
Originally from: Chinatimes
Chinatimes/ Reporter Sheng-wen Lee reports 2007.11.23
http://health.chinatimes.com/blog/herbs/index_at366.html
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