Joint of Traditional Medical Science and Modern Medical Science

---Medical Science of the Smell

Demin Li*, Yuzhi Han, Xiao Li, Meixin Li

Serving health of the human is the only purpose of any school of medical science. Traditional medical science is a summary of ancient medical science and modern medical science is an achievement of latter-day medical science, and both of them need developing, but it is impossible to run parallel with each other, so merging them should be done. Medical science is the natural science, which would be affected by region, nationality and culture that affected social science more greatly. Natural science has differences but not repels each other and not set contradictorily against. What is science? Science is an inherent rule of development of nature; understanding to it has been always limited unavoidably. Regard the animal, plant and micro organism on the earth as a biosphere, struggle each other, will inevitably find the smell is the tie of binding three circles of living beings in interdependence, because the smell is the three circle only biological language that can all be understood of living beings, every living beings release smell as tool of information interchange, it’s a pity that the view of “any life entity have sense of smell” is unknown to the public.

Plant is life entity of the strongest spirit of “rely on one’s own efforts” in the biosphere. It can produce organic matter from inorganic matter by synthesize. The animal and micro organism make a living by robbing plants, the plant produces the varied secondary metabolite to resist; the animal produced various kinds of digestive erment to destroy the toxicity of the secondary metabolite. As virtue rises one foot, vice rises ten. The battle never stopped; therefore biological variety resulted from the different way of struggle. The struggle between productions of poison (the secondary metabolite) with detoxification (mainly digestive ferment) was called “converse food chain”. Darwin has found the mark of the biological evolution from the fossil of extinct plants and animal, the author of this text has found the origin of the biological evolution from biochemical compositions. The lower animal will produce poison as weapon to protect themselves.

The animal with strong antidotal ability can eat wide food sources, called high animal. The matter, which can kill micro organism and hurt human body little or none, was called medicine which was used for kill pathogenic microbe invaded human. This is the origin of anti-infection medicine.

Any biological sense of smell has two great main functions: first, distinguish the poison; second, can distinguish the food (or absorbable matter).

The science and technology is called medical science of the smell, which researches on pathogenesis and treating of disease with smell technique. They are 27 main arguments in smell science:

(1) The smell is one of the most important characteristics of material, which can represent essence of the material most. A kind of material has a kind of smell. There are not two kinds of different materials with the same smell. The material does not change its smell unless quality changing. The change of quality must company with the change of smell.

(2) No material does not volatilized absolutely (at absolute zero- 273 more than o’clock), so any material has smell to emerge.

(3) Every living beings has breaths, which is the sign of the metabolism activity. Respiratory system and sense of smell are correlative; therefore any organism has sense of smell.

(4) Any biological sense of smell has certain aesthesia ranges; it must have its blind areas too. The aesthesia range of the biological sense of smell, only relate to its living necessities. The smell that is no relation with survival is its blind area. However, there are some special cases, for example: oxygen, vapour, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide. People can not feel them, though they exist in the air all the time. People do not need to seek or take precautions against them sedulously, so people’s centre of sense of smell deletes their smell signal. The camel, the boat of the desert, needs to look for the source of water; it keeps sensitivity to the vapour. Going through the carbon monoxide, the person poisoned resumes the sensitiveness to the carbon monoxide in various degrees.

(5) Biological excrement or secretion is the extremely complicated mixture, whose chemical compositions are up to several hundred kinds. They mix and sent out a kind of smell, which represents this species. The smell is different among different populations, which enable it to discern the members of the same clan, for instance ant, honeybee, birds and beasts, etc. The good dog does not bite the relative, because it can discern blood relationship. Have a difference with the individual of the population, so the police dog can track according to the smell.

(6) The smell of the animal changes temporarily with diet, disease, mood. The living beings can also release the special smell consciously for exchanging information or attacking enemy as weapon.

(7) The lower the biological evolution degree is, the higher the dependence on sense of smell is.

(8) A lot of plants can release the gas that is used for dispelling the harmful gas to their growth in the air.

(9) The smell is a common language of the living nature.

(10) The sense of smell is a patron saint of the life.

(11) Different smells may complement each other. The complementary smell can be combined automatically, then turn into a kind of new material.

(12) The sense of smell can perceive the smell of mixing, but can not analyse accurately that mix the composition of the smell.

(13) The living beings can produce adaptability to the single poisonous substance, but very difficult to mixed poisonous substance. Living beings protect themselves by production of mixed poisonous substance.

(14) The long-term single poisonous substance can make the biological species variation. That comes more easily in low grade life-form than in high grade life-form.

(15) Living beings produce new poisonous substance to protect themselves or produce new antidotal matter to adapt to the environmental changing. They are abbreviated to produce poison and detoxify. Chemical change of the organism, which runs through life all the time, will cause the variation of the gene at last and promote biological evolution.

(16) Fragrant is related to olid just as poisonous and non- poisonous. It is the impression of smell that good for health is fragrant and harmful smell is olid. Smell of fragrant and olid is not same for different living beings and different individual of same living beings. Smell of fragrant and olid is related to concentration of the matter. Extreme fragrant matter with high concentration has an olid smell. Extreme olid matter with low concentration has a fragrant smell, for instance, musk and banana oil.

(17) To natural matter, people can differentiate whether the matter is poisonous or not with high accuracy rate by smell. But the judgement to the chemical material of the artificial synthesis is slightly bad in rate of accuracy, consult and compare with the smell of the known thing, will often misjudge, but will correct to keep in touch automatically. The animal does not eat the natural poisonous substance, lacks resolving power to the chemical poisonous substance but fooled. Will realize the truth after being been fooled, this is not merely that a mouse can be accomplished, including insect and bacterium. They still can tell one's own feeling similarly, it is everybody that has ability of taking precautions against.

(18) The work of the micro organism produces the endotoxin and exotoxin to defends the weapon, it is a secondary metabolite that the attacking of the plant defends the weapon, some lower animals depend on producing the poison too. Evolve degree high animal have immune system, the immune system also dies behind the body death, the secondary metabolite (immune material) of the plant can have been kept for a long time after the death, so the animal has perishable corpse.

(19) The plant resists enemies by many kinds of secondary metabolite, this has limited eating the source of the animal, the persons who eat would eat permanently, and the persons who do not eat have never eaten. The origin that the plant medicine will not produce the resistance to the action of a drug lies in this.

(20) The secondary metabolite of the plant is often a medicine, lying in it detoxifies, sterilization, killing worm's efficiency, the more complicated the chemical composition of the plant is, the higher medical value is, the natural medicine takes plant as the core.

(21) Ability of the poison gas that a lot of plants purify, draw the air to purify the pharmaceutical feasible and already making the gratifying achievement from the plant, this even if “Minzhi peculiar smell eliminator”, known as technology of “return one of the earth fresh”.

(22) The smell causes a disease to cure the disease again; it is an important view that studies of the smell that the plant cures it again in accordance with it, the fight of the funguses of people should regard plant as the weapon.

(23) Chemical agriculture chemical and origin of producing the resistance to the action of a drug of antibiotic are that the chemical composition is single.

(24) Traditional medical science antagonistic to contradiction of modern medical science is a strange phenomenon in the natural science, they can unify, the unified way is the combination of macroscopically theory and micro theory, complex of Western medicine it takes to be concise to is it wipe go demarcation line, Chinese and Western of medicine to take with traditional Chinese medicine.

(25) Necessity that the degradation of human sense of smell does not evolve, but danger signal and alarm bell, environmental pollution and epidemic disease are all prevailing because the mankind has lost the patron saint of the life.

(26) Observe the living nature with eyes and draw the food chain theory, and observe the living nature with the nose, who allows whom to eat, draw it against the food chain theory.

(27) The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine explains nature with the taste, that was got is that the medicine nourishes performance, strengthen body resistance and eliminating evil. Study with smell nature can detoxify, sterilization, abating worm's mechanism, contribute to promoting the development of Chinese medicine. Above-mentioned argument since 1992 scattered in publish on “China Scientific newspaper” rename as “scientific Times” now, on “Chinese Medicine” and “scientific news” weekly magazine. Having held the medical seminar of smell in Beijing on September 26, 1995, Chinese Central Television did the news report on September 27. 

The secondary metabolite that the plant produces is not merely for defending the animal and micro organism, there is thing poison gas of gas defence, resist the abominable climate and function of the environment. People are thought the plant to have ability to absorb poison gas wrongly, it is not simple to incorrectly relay an erroneous message and miss people. In fact, the plant dissolves the poison gas in the surrounding environment by releasing the gas (the smell material), release controlling consciously. Verify this kind of phenomenon is very simple, you stir the leaves of peppermint, tomato with the stick, its smell has no change of power, when use hands instead to touch it, and the smell becomes strong immediately. Whom plant experience infrared ray (temperature), it warn animal “poisonous I with smell have, don’t make me!” We have already drawn the smell materials of different plants out, used as air’s detoxifying the pharmaceutical. The secondary metabolite that the author draws from many kinds of plants is made “the peculiar smell of the quick sesame disappear”, can is it lose to dispel 100,000 more than smell of material, its toxicity disappearance thereupon. A kind of material and a kind of smell, the material does not turn into the smell; the smell is the most representative external characteristic of the material. The bad smell must be poisonous; this is an innate gas defence instinct of living beings.

Medical science of the smell is a medical problem of view research studied with the smell; the smell medicine utilizes three circles of living beings to deal with the plant disease (agriculture chemical), domestic animal disease (animal remedy), human disease (medicine), and the germ in our environment and harmful gas (disinfectant and air cleaning pharmaceutical). First generation of products of the smell medicine --It is the mixture of the secondary metabolite drawn from many kinds of plants that the peculiar smell of the quick sesame disappears, have the uses of five major kinds of products of agriculture chemical, animal remedy, medicine, disinfectant and air cleaning pharmaceutical concurrently, it is a miracle since the dawn of human civilization.

Delicate difference between medical science of the smell and traditional medical science

Traditional medical science makes nature with “4 natures the five flavours”, talk about managing with “eight key links are dialectical”. Four of the traditional Chinese medicine is that the growth environment of the crude drugs cause, “warm, cold and cool” is the human body that the medicine causes reacts. The five flavours of traditional Chinese medicine feeling, sense of taste of organ, “‘hard, sweet, bitter and salty’ the five flavours internal organs each with particular emphasis dirty function in people”, cause different physiological reactions. Eight key link principle used medicine to guide, with to lean towards sex correct of leaning towards of symptom medicine, manage cold fever for Israel, manage hot with cold, warm times of fever for Israel, it is the cool it inferior to the cold, whose name is the warm to be the clear, the clear and warm. In the negative and positive form, the fever and chills of the actual situation, make the behaviour of the symptom a key point, by medicine it return by, go up and down not rising and fall by gram.

“Shen Nong” tastes one hundred grasses, meets 70 poison on the first, prove that distinguishes nature with the taste. Distinguishing nature with the smell in medical science of the smell, the former, in the mouth, the latter is in the nose, distinguish nutrition in talking, distinguish the poisonous one in and the sense of smell, the bad smell is all poisonous.

The smell medicine focuses on managing the bacterium, virus to infect and detoxify.

Traditional medical science have five excessive six evil to is it say cure disease, emphasize big environment and human body’s little environment around to cause a disease, there is theory of harmony between man and nature. 

And the influence on the living beings of poisonous substance that medical science of the smell focuses on studying three circles of living beings to counteract each other and concern, it was the disease that was cured, it is relatively close to combine with modern science. Plant get up leading status among living beings three circle, “plant cure it in accordance with it” to say plant survive among nature, there is ability to control nature. It is the central task of medical science of the smell to borrow the weapon to the plant and manage pollution and treat the disease.                   

Why this medical science is preceded by smell this word? Because the smell causes a disease and cures the disease again: Smell material most important external characteristic, poisonous substance and nutrient, harmful and harmless to can distinguish with the smell; the smell is a common language of the living nature; the smell is an important weapon which deals with the harmful animal and poison gas; the sense of smell is a patron saint of the life.

Why is the focal point of medical science of smell put on the medical value of the plant?

The plant is powerhouse the most in three circles of living beings.

The micro organism is divided into two big classes of a bacterial parasite and saprophytic fungus according to its food source, depending on the over parasitic life of living body of the animals and plants with bacterial parasite, the saprophytic fungus consumes the corpses of the animals and plants, divide the organic matter of high polymer into organic matter of little member and inorganic matter.

The animal is spoliators, the plant-eating animal consumes plant, and the meat consumes plant-eating animal, omnivorous animal and concurrently eating the plant and animal.

Only the plant is persons who earn one’s own living, form the organic matter with the inorganic matter, have no plant and have no animal and micro organism; plants can resolve carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon and keep the oxygen content in the atmosphere; the plant can purify the air and eliminate gas chemical combination harmful to people; the plant can’t be escaped, can’t attack, produce the chemical material and deal with poisoning and harmful animal by oneself.

The smell language of the plant and function of sense of smell of the animal can state the position in the life of sense of smell most, most explain relation of counteracting each other of living beings 3 circle with smell, study how medical science ignores the smell ?

Must study the relation of counteracting each other between three circles of living beings while studying medical science, study counteracting each other and focusing on studying plants of living nature, study the medical value of secondary metabolite that the plant focuses on studying the plant, function that the medical value of studying secondary metabolite focuses on studying the sense of smell, birth that the function of studying the biological sense of smell must cause the smell to study.

The traditional Chinese medicines and smell medicine all take plant as the core, but the pharmacology used is different. Medical science of the smell is the main pulse with life sciences, biological counteracting each other is the soul, and modern natural science is the key opening the door. Interpret “evil” of traditional medical science as pathogenic micro organism and chill, hot summer weather, dry and wet, it is the chemical poisonous substance to be “dirty” and concrete, the ones that strengthen the traditional Chinese medicine eliminate the pathogenic factor except dirty dynamics, unify the disease and disease. Having no difference to concoct the respect in the medicine, the medicated wine is recorded in the inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells. The traditional Chinese medicine stresses the monarch and his subjects to assist and enable matching, the smell medicine is the medicine made of two or more ingredients too, it is of different chemical compositions in coordination with function that pay attention to in medicines, the sterilization strength of any flavour traditional Chinese medicine is not strong, sterilization strength is heightened after the flavour of a drug is made up, the traditional Chinese medicine of single flavour is similar to the antibiotic, sensitive to some bacteria, not sensitive to other bacteria, the group side of the smell medicine is not the superposing of medicine sterilization assortment of single flavour.

There are differences in medical science of the smell and modern medical science, the common point of the two is in pace with modern science and technology, the difference lies in: Pay attention to the physiological activation of single chemical compositions, pay attention to the organism whole function in medical science of the smell in modern medical science, regard plant kingdom, little living nature and animal kingdom as and survive in three army groups of struggle, regard each army group as a whole, it is three large troop formations that fight, give full play to the advantage of the group. Three army groups are evenly matched, each have the advantage and inferior position, tie, it is the dynamic equilibrium in a struggle. Virus make a variation fast, bacterium meet change of ability of medicine fast, say plant and animal think make a variation relative too, actually this is not so, even quickly his internal change when the harmful animal (poisonous substance, micro organism and animal) that the plant receives, chemical compositions of the plant are changing at any time, the animal is as the same, take people as an example, people’s immune response is obvious examples.

Chemical compositions of the Western medicine cope with shifting events by sticking to a fundamental principle, it is unavoidable that its drug effect falls sharply and even loses efficiency.

Can collect medicine, agriculture chemical, animal remedy, disinfectant and conciliate the toxic in a medicine in medical science of the smell, is not it exactly results of the overall situation of medical theory interconnected system view of the smell that a medicine kill one hundred funguses, solve one hundred poison, cure the one hundredth disease?

Traditional medical science is the macroscopically science, modern medical science is the micro science, medical science of the smell proceeds from macroscopic and holds the micro change, and it is the intersection of two kinds of medical science.

Wonderful material in the plant

This kind of material can disinfect (kill the micro organism), but completely different from chemical　disinfectant and antibiotic, it can detoxify, makes the toxin of the organic inorganic not have poisonous substance　quality to turn. The idea of looking for this kind of material is begun by the enlightenment of the ancient antiseptic　liquid. Archaism era uses hanging the tarragon, wears the fragrant bag to avoid evil spirits in Chinese nation,　some tarragons drove the custom of the mosquito, turned into and made fragrant one and lighted and purified the　air with the spices later, develop into the offerings and pray gods bless safely, a sorry one is that disinfectant and　air cleaning pharmaceutical are not invented by Chinese also.

It is caused by bacterium that the ones that know grape wine become sour as the Europeans, knew again later　when bacteria will cause the disease; people looked for the activity of the disinfectant to begin. Then people have　found the chlorine, bromine, iodine chemical compound of the halogen family element again from finding the　ethanol at one’s side, ozone and can release the chemical compound of the oxygen atom etc., in a word people　have never given up looking for the efforts of the ideal disinfectant, but it does not satisfy people to wish, has not　stimulated these two to be always difficult to be satisfied non-poisonous, why?

People and micro organism are all life entities, there is few this wounded material not injuring him.

Where is the outlet? The antiseptic technology of tomb of Han Dynasty of “Ma-wang-dui” offers the answer, looks for in the plant. Make corpse to be rotten and easy, salted is it is it can do to dehydrate to air-drying, let cell　dehydrate, protein change the sex difficult, excavate woman muscle flexible corpse, joint can song stretch what　does it prove? How to find a clue to this mystery?

Begin from the difference between animal protein and protein of the micro organism is analysed. The protein　is the source of the life, Engels has said, the life is a way of the protein existence. Wanting to kill micro　organism’s most thorough method is to make its protein change the sex.

There are this tricks in one’s own protective measure of the plant, so the antiseptic ability of the plant is very　strong, living plant bacterium injure it, plant that die its antiseptic material is it shed to resolve in the moist　condition, the bacterium has an opportunity to take advantage of.

The animal leans against and eats the life of plants, there are many kinds of digestive ferment, including　solve the enzyme of the secondary metabolite of plants, so the plant can defend the micro organism but can’t　defend all animals, can only defend some insects. The plant has provided a lot of kinds of non-poisonous　disinfectant for mankind, this kind can already kill the micro organism in the environment to non-poisonous　disinfectant of animal (especially high animal), can kill internal micro organism too, why is this traditional　medicine stem from more reason of plant. In the traditional Chinese medicinal materials that are often used now,　there are more than 11,000 kinds of plant medicines; there are more than 200 kinds of animal medicines, several　dozen kinds of mineral medicines. There are proteins which destroys the micro organism without materials of　protein destroying the animal in the plant.

Abate, restrain fungus not to is it disinfect to call outside the body, body abate, restrain fungus not to claim and diminish inflammation, such mechanical division because of between disinfectant and whom human body have　injury, only a few external application can't be taken orally in the traditional Chinese medicine, most　traditional Chinese medicine is very for external use and taking orally. There are three upper, middle and lower products in the division of the traditional Chinese medicine, divide according to the toxic size, Chinese medicine is regarded as three points of medicines poisonously, so this safe grade that the Chinese patent drugs so far are not “non-poisonous”.

The traditional Chinese medicine has always had this formulation of antidote; the range of detoxifying of the traditional Chinese medicine is very wide too, there is poisonous and clear air of the poisonous, insect which solves poison by food, medicine. The increasing poisonous substance is called the environmental pollutant or the job and poisoned after the industrial development, there are very few researches to this of Chinese medicine, Western medicine is studied more but there are few methods solved. The western physician, to chemistry with chemistry, the thinking is wrong.

The author learns to set out in view from the smell that is created by him and receives the new discovery from his own research that plant releases the smell to dispel the poison gas around. He denies the traditional idea that plant depends on absorbing poison gas to purify air. If regarding the plant as a poison gas absorber, what does it absorb the poison gas for? Where to eliminate?

Author finds out antitode in many kinds of plant, which accumulates to detoxify the material, it can “make the earths return to fresh”, is a wide, non-poisonous plant air cleaning pharmaceutical with high-efficient.

Mr. Lu, front courtyard of Chinese Academy of Sciences encouraged: “study smell science and climb the scientific peak bravely.”

Late famous writer Mr. Wu Zuguang’s epigraph: “The greatest new theory of the twentieth century is the smell science.”

The Tang, honorary president of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, appraised the smell and described like this:

Mr. Li DeMin proposes the smell causes a disease but at the same time cures the disease, which accords with dialecticisms. The plant can purify the air. Different plants can absorb different “poison gas”. Take plant as air purification to dispel the air pollution which accords with the image of “curing it”.

The view “the smell is a common language of the living nature, the sense of smell is a patron saint of the life” that he puts forward is sure scientifically, it is necessary to recommend the smell study. Because the animal distinguishes it is food or poisonous substance and is similar or alien by the smell, the plant defends bacteria by producing the smell which protects against insects. This is the counteracting each other in living nature. Some secondary metabolites such as glucoside, ketone quinone, alkaloid which the plant produces have special smell. Some medical composition that the plant includes has special smell, so studying medicine mechanism with the

smell is also a question that can be probed into. Mr. Li put forward view on “plant produce malicious with animal

detoxify the motive power of the biological evolution” worth paying attention to, to the discussion with new

medical science.

View on “chemical composition is simple is the reason of antibiotic producing resistance to the action of a drug” that Mr. Li put forward may cause the dispute, but there are certain reasons in his theory. And academy contends is a good thing, which can make a clear distinction between right and wrong and deepen the understanding in disputing.

Former vice-president and king of China Preventive Medical Science Inst have described the prospect of

disappearing to the peculiar smell of the quick sesame full of trees like this:

As everyone knows, disinfect both at home and abroad at present the medical instrument can be divided into three classes: First disinfect apparatus, such as ultraviolet lamp, radioactive rays shining, ozone generator, etc.; The second kind of chemical disinfectant, refers to regarding chemical material as the disinfectant of main raw materials, for example chlorine preparation, glutaraldehyde, chlorhexidine, iodophors, etc.; The third type plant disinfectant, refers to regarding plant (or Chinese herbal medicine ) as the raw materials of disinfectant. First disinfect apparatus, disinfect range of application to be limited, must control and manage strictly while using, otherwise unsafe. The second kind of chemical disinfectant, it is relatively wide to disinfect in the range of application, but the chemical material reaches certain dosage, have malicious side effects to the human body, have corrosively to the medical equipment and fabric, the stability is bad, disinfect and remain to the vegetables, fruit. The third type plant disinfectant is the most ideal disinfectant, the scope of application is wide, and there is no side effect in the security, especially suitable for contacting the human body or using in the crowd’s environment directly.

Above-mentioned disinfectant developed by Mr. Li DeMin is the disinfectant with high scientific and technological content. It is one of the disinfectants of plant of our country at present with strong ability in killing pathogenic microorganism, so this disinfectant has extensive applications and bright future.

According to the existing laboratory measuring materials and application practice in the past, I thought it can be used in a very large range, and it is especially suitable for the application of the following several respects, and have a special advantage.

1. Public place: Such as theatre, station, room, ward, etc. It not only has the function which kills the pathogenic microorganism but also have fragrant smell, and without poisonous and side effect to the human body. Ultraviolet lamp, ozone, etc. can’t be used among the crowds, and the chemical disinfectant has certain poisonous side effects, for example the chlorine preparation with chlorine flavour.

2. When take a shower and woman health care, it is exposed to skin and mucous membrane directly without poisonous and side effect, and there is fragrant smell. But if using the chemical disinfectant, the chemical material has certain residue to the skin mucous membrane, unfavourable to the health. Us ing this disinfectant, onc e there is too much consumption, still have no any influence and danger to us.

In addition, because this disinfectant is a kind of pure plant preparation and has strong ability of sterilization, so, the development potentiality of this disinfectant is very great. This disinfectant will be derived and developed into some other products healthy and beneficial to people in the future.

Old people may still cherish high aspirations to have a far-reaching ambition. The author and his wife are over seventy years old, but the great ambition is still alive. They are leading son Li Xiao, daughter Li MeiXin to climb bravely to the scientific peak. Being fully confident, they believe firmly that one day of the big unification of traditional medical science and modern medical science will come soon! The sign of the medical big unification is: Unity of macroscopically medical science and micro medical science, refinement of traditional Chinese medicine and complex in Western medicine wipes difference between them. The scientific findings of human are shared by the whole mankind.

(Edited by Joesmile, Jane Chen)

* Corresponding to Demin Li (1936.12-), male, engineer, director of Clear Lush Smell Scientific Research Institution, Xiangcheng

District, Xiangfan; Main research field: the smell science and medical science of the smell; Address: Clear Lush Smell Scientific

Research Institution, Xiangcheng District, Xiangfan, Hubei Province, Postcode: 441021.