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When Mr. Sun heard Locke’s answer, he was stunned. He was not happy, but hesitant. He drank the medicine slowly.

He was shocked by Locke’s talent after seeing him use the flying needle technique easily after just one look, so he spoke subconsciously.

But when he thought of the miserable situation of Chinese medicine in the United States, he realized that he was a little rash. He didn’t expect Locke to agree.

Acupuncture and moxibustion are classified as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in the United States together with yoga.

NCCAM is a subordinate institution of the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Its main work is to conduct research and analysis on complementary and alternative medicine to see which complementary medical technologies can become a member of “alternative medicine”.

For example, yoga, massage, qigong, meditation, physical therapy, acupuncture, etc., all belong to alternative medicine.

Therefore, acupuncture and moxibustion do not belong to the medical category in the United States.

And Chinese medicine is not regarded as medicine in the United States, but is classified as “dietary supplement”.

“Chinese herbal dietary supplements” sold in the United States do not need to be approved by the FDA, nor do they need to prove their effectiveness and safety.

Similarly, Chinese medicine is not allowed to promote its effects and efficacy.

Therefore, many Chinese medicine practitioners take shortcuts, exploit loopholes, and play by the rules. They promote their effects without mentioning them, which has led to a bad reputation for Chinese medicine in the United States, and it is often warned by the FDA, and its credibility has been greatly reduced.

For example, the famous Lotus Capsule was banned from entering the United States because it contains ephedrine.

The reason why ephedrine was banned was that an American professional baseball player died of heatstroke during training after taking a “dietary supplement” containing ephedrine. The autopsy report showed that ephedrine played a key role in this sudden death.

In the United States, Chinese medicine practitioners are not doctors, but are only regarded as physical therapists. You can imagine their status.

An acupuncturist earns about 50,000 US dollars a year, while Fengjie, a Chinese Internet celebrity, can earn 40,000 US dollars a year by doing manicures in New York.

Fengjie

This is the situation of Chinese medicine practitioners in the United States.

The average annual income of a real doctor in the United States, a doctor with a USMLE license, is $196,000.

Therefore, in the United States, Chinese medicine has no future.

No one in the Sun family has studied Chinese medicine, and no one wants to inherit the ancestral Chinese medicine tradition.

Old Sun put down the medicine bowl, and he had made up his mind. In the end, he didn’t want the family tradition of Chinese medicine to be broken. After all, a genius like Locke is rare, and Locke doesn’t plan to make a living from this anyway.

He asked, “How much do you know about Chinese medicine?”

Locke didn’t really know much about Chinese medicine, except for the acupuncture video he had found on the Internet before, so he repeated what Li Bo said in the morning.

After listening to this, Mr. Sun nodded with satisfaction and said to Li Bo with emotion: “You are still a good teacher! My grandson has put Chinese medicine and witchcraft together, and he is more willing to learn IT and AI…”

Li Bo said with shame: “It’s okay, it’s okay…”

Mr. Sun calmed down and told the real situation of Chinese medicine in the United States, saying: “If you are really just interested in it, it’s not impossible to learn it…”

Li Bo was dumbfounded. He didn’t expect that Chinese medicine would be in such a situation in the United States.

The propaganda he saw was that Chinese medicine is very popular in the United States, and good Chinese medicine practitioners are all in the United States.

Just now, Mr. Sun used yoga as an example, saying that there are at least 30 million people practicing yoga in the United States, accounting for 13% of the adult population in the United States, but only more than 3 million have tried acupuncture, accounting for only about 1% of the adult population.

So, Chinese medicine is not as popular as advertised in the United States!

This made him a little difficult to accept. After all, in his heart, Chinese medicine is something that can represent Chinese culture and heritage.

Locke was also stunned. He had not expected that Chinese medicine had such a good reputation in the United States. Wouldn’t it be a waste of effort for him to use the long history and heritage of Chinese medicine to promote his medicine?

However, there was also good news. Chinese medicine was classified as a “Chinese medicine dietary supplement” and did not need to be approved by the FDA.

This meant that his medicine could skip the various development cycles of clinical drugs, and the difficulty of listing would be greatly reduced.

Well, of course, this meant that the medicine could not be sold on a large scale.

But after weighing the pros and cons, Locke felt that the pros outweighed the cons. He sold it as a “Chinese medicine dietary supplement” andIt can avoid competition with large pharmaceutical companies and develop in a mean way.

Locke said seriously: “Old Sun, I want to learn!”

Old Sun was pleased to see that Locke wanted to learn Chinese medicine even though he knew the situation of Chinese medicine. He immediately demonstrated more mysterious and magical aspects of acupuncture on Locke.

For example, acupuncture can make his arm numb, and changing the place can make his arm hurt.

Old Sun explained kindly: “As you just said, Chinese medicine and Western medicine are completely different concepts. If you want to learn acupuncture, you must learn the meridians and acupoints of the human body. Haha, does it sound like a martial arts novel…”

Although Locke didn’t understand what meridians and acupoints meant, he was shocked by what Old Sun had just demonstrated, and his heart was horrified.

Just acupuncture can make limbs unable to move and make people feel miserable.

What kind of anesthetic or forced confession drugs are needed!

Locke has determined that Spike should have only learned a little bit of acupuncture at the beginning, and did not learn the essence of acupuncture. This is a completely stupid operation of picking up sesame seeds and throwing watermelons.

Old Sun told Li Bo and Locke very seriously that since Locke could not practice medicine, there was no inheritance relationship between them.

He only thought that Locke was an acupuncture enthusiast, and how much he could learn depended on his own luck.

Then Old Sun gave Locke a doll with meridians and acupoints all over his body, “In addition to remembering these meridians and acupoints, you also need to read books. These books can be bought in China, “Huangdi Neijing”, “Nanjing”, “Huangdi Zhenjiu Jiayijing”, “Huangdi Neijing Taisu”, “Qianjin Yaofang”, “Qianjin Yifang”, “Waitai Miyao”, “Jinlan Xunjing”, “Shisijing Fahui”… , Uh, I’ll write it to you, you probably can’t remember it…”

As he said that, Mr. Sun wrote down all the books Locke needed to read on a piece of paper, “After you have read these books thoroughly, come to me again. Remember, don’t give me acupuncture without my instruction. , By the way, can you read Chinese characters?”

Seeing that there were more than a dozen unheard-of books written on the paper, Locke’s scalp tingled and replied, “I can understand it!”

He hesitated for a moment and asked, “Mr. Sun, in addition to acupuncture, I also want to learn how to make Chinese medicine…”

Mr. Sun looked up at him, a trace of sadness flashed in his eyes, and shook his head and said, “You don’t need to learn this. Chinese medicine has no future in the United States. You can’t even buy medicinal materials…”

…

Half an hour later, Locke followed his father out of Huichuntang with the acupuncture doll. Compared with the endless talk when he came, Li Bo was very silent on the way back.

Locke saw that Li Bo looked a little depressed, so he asked him what was wrong.

Li Bo said with a sigh: “I didn’t know that the status of Chinese medicine in the United States was so low before. Locke, since you are interested, just study hard. Although Mr. Sun didn’t say it clearly, as long as you study hard, he will definitely teach you all his inheritance…” Locke nodded and said, “I know!” In fact, he now wants to learn Chinese medicine, but judging from Mr. Sun’s intention, he must learn acupuncture first. Li Bo hesitated for a moment and said, “Locke, with your IQ, you will definitely learn acupuncture. I hope that one day, if you have the ability, you can restore the reputation of Chinese medicine!” Locke was stunned. Is this expectation too high? How can he… Well, he reacted instantly and nodded solemnly: “Dad, I will…” Perfect! The story of his future research on Chinese medicine is perfectly closed.