There is a famous saying in the ancient Chinese medical field: One year to become a great doctor, two years to become a minor doctor, three years to become a no-doctor!
What it means is that it is easy to get started with traditional Chinese medicine. You can memorize Tangtou Song, Acupoint Song, Pulse Song, and Eighteen Antis, and then you can actually treat a patient. However, Chinese medicine is an empirical science. The longer it lasts, the richer its experience will be, and its grasp of various diseases will be more accurate, so that it will not frustrate patients.
Traditional Chinese medicine uses natural materials to treat diseases, and the effects are relatively slow, but its harm to the human body is much safer than the barbaric therapies in the West. If your medical skills are not good, you may not Put people to death immediately, but if the people you treat often die, your market will be gone.
So, it is not a big deal to dare patients to prescribe prescriptions for half a year. Many prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine are public. Patients who are not doctors dare to prescribe and buy medicines. For example, Lin Biao often reads medical books. Then write a prescription for yourself.
However, prescribing and medical skills cannot be equated. Dare to treat people's diseases does not mean that you can cure them...