Abstract:The debate between Chinese and western medicines in the period of New Cultural Movement is basically ascribable to a struggle for the power of speech. Westernized intellectuals availed themselves of the speech hegemony of scientism to demonize Chinese medicines. Being on the defensive, Chinese medicines had to resort to their own jargons which, unfortunately, failed to appeal to a wide audience. This author is of the opinion that Chinese medicinces should acquire the so-called ‘discrete wisdom’ for its survival in face of the orthodoxical and domineering western medical science.