What should be the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine?

Chinese medicine and western medicine do have a lot of differences, first of all, their active substance base is not the same, western medicine are chemically synthesized products, while traditional Chinese medicine is mostly composed of plants, animals and some minerals through concoctions and other processed by the processing of the formation of the active substance group, which is often said to be the difference between the natural products and chemical products.

Western medicine consists of a single or a limited number of compound monomers, so the mode of action in the body is different from traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine mainly acts on specific targets in the body, in general, has a high degree of selectivity and specificity, that is, after being absorbed by the body in a specific system, tissue, or even organs have a fairly high level of content distribution, and act on this part of the therapeutic effect. Such as the treatment of hypertension commonly used vasodilators, etc., but if there is also a role in other targets, the consequences are often said to be the side effects, and Chinese medicine also has a specific active substance in a specific target, but more often than not different active substances in a number of different targets and produce synergistic, amplification of advantageous effects to the overall concept of treatment of the disease, can be compared with the image of traditional Chinese medicine as a "Shrapnel", such as Gui Zhi Tang to relieve fever is a variety of active ingredients, respectively, in exogenous, endogenous thermogenesis, and thermoregulatory center of a variety of neurotransmitters and play a role in the action, and such as the use of Dachengqi Tang cathartic, respectively, through the synthesis of hypertonicity, rhubarb, the intestinal motility increased by reflexes, it can be said that Western medicine acts on a specific target, while traditional Chinese medicine acts on the specific target, but the Chinese medicine is the role of a synergy, amplification of the advantageous effect. targets, while Chinese medicine acts on multiple targets.

Chinese medicine is mostly compound and western medicine is mostly a single chemical composition, we are now using either proprietary Chinese medicine or the doctor prescribed soup, the vast majority of them are compound. The reason for this is to start from the history of the development of Chinese medicine and Western medicine. China's earliest written records of traditional Chinese medicine appeared in the pre-Qin "Classic of Mountains and Seas", but the records are single-flavored drugs, which indicates that since the ancient ancestors with traditional Chinese medicine or single-flavored drugs to start, but from the Warring States period after the ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine are almost all the records of the compound, which also fully explains that it is due to the single-flavored traditional Chinese medicine can not be very good solution to the problems arising from the treatment and try to use the complex formula and has achieved success, so as to become the direction of the development of traditional Chinese medicine. This also fully demonstrates that it is precisely because single-flavored Chinese medicines cannot solve the problems arising in treatment well that compounding is tried and succeeded, thus becoming the direction of development of Chinese medicine. In addition, since the human body is an organism composed of several complex systems, the same disease manifests itself in different people or at different stages of development in the same person in many different ways. A compound formula consisting of a ruler, a minister and a co-ordinator can be used to recognize the symptoms and treat both the symptoms and the root cause of a disease according to the condition of each individual, which is another reasonable explanation for the development of Chinese medicine compounding. This history of the evolution of Chinese medicine is a record of the process from simple to complex. In fact, the trajectory of the development of Western medicines and Chinese medicines is strikingly similar again. The origin of Western medicines also started from a single herb, such as aspirin, which is still widely used in modern times, is the main ingredient in the bark of salicylate, which is also known by another name, acetylsalicylic acid. But unlike us, with the continuous development of the chemical industry in the West, Western medicine has been trying to extract from single herbs since the 18th century, refining the main ingredients therein, and trying to synthesize them chemically to get large quantities of inexpensive single compounds. It is precisely because of the difference in historical and cultural backgrounds that Western herbs have taken a path from complexity to simplicity.

It is interesting to note that the development of TCM compounding over thousands of years has coincided with the modern Western trend of personalized treatment and a return to nature. On the contrary, in front of the toxic side effects of chemical drugs, the undifferentiated treatment plan and the helplessness of the difficult disease, the compounded traditional Chinese medicine shows its advantages, just when we put a lot of energy on extracting monomers from single-flavored traditional Chinese medicine, the Americans have started the "cocktail therapy" for the treatment of AIDS, and the differences between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine are once again demonstrated.

Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceuticals are for diagnosis and treatment, so Chinese medicine and Western medicine are naturally inseparable from the theories of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, so all the differences come from Chinese medicine and Western medicine do not have exactly the same understanding of human disease and health.

Western medicine is a medical system based on pathological anatomy, with the continuous improvement of the level of modern technology, the understanding of the human body by the development of tissues and organs to the level of cells, molecules and even DNA, that the disease is due to pathological changes in these organs. Therefore, the treatment is mostly aimed at restoring the entity of these organs, treating the "disease", and the mechanism of medication is also mostly "confrontation". Chinese medicine is a kind of evidence-based medicine, that the disease is due to the body and the environment is not coordinated or their own internal organs are out of balance and caused by the treatment does not lie entirely in the pathological changes, and more consideration of the recovery of the body's functions, the treatment is "symptomatic" (i.e., the disease of a series of clinical manifestations), and the use of medication is mostly for the mechanism of the "adjustment". The first is the "Dual", which is a new type of the "Dual".

Taking the treatment of tumors as an example, Western medicine mostly uses radiotherapy to shrink the lumps as the ultimate goal; while Chinese medicine not only considers tumor suppression, but also aims to alleviate the various symptoms of cancer patients, improve the quality of life, and prolong the survival period. For example, the practice of Yilun Qinghua Cream (Lung Tumor Ping) produced by your factory in the treatment of lung cancer is a good example.

Simply put, western medicines are mostly chemically synthesized single ingredients, mostly aiming at restoring the organs where pathology occurs, which is aimed at introducing "confrontation" for "disease". And Chinese medicine is to natural plants, animals, minerals, etc., in accordance with certain principles of the composition of the compound, mostly to restore the human body and the environment or the human body between the various organs of the imbalance of the situation, it is the "evidence" to introduce the adjustment. In short, Western medicine is mainly to eliminate the "foci" for the purpose of Chinese medicine is to adjust the body's function, to achieve "Yin Ping Yang secret" purpose. The essential difference between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine still stems from a different understanding of human health and disease, Chinese medicine is based on the guidance of traditional culture, such as Zhongxin Pharmaceutical Daren Tang Pharmaceutical Factory such a long history of enterprises, in the modernization of Chinese medicine in the process of the traditional culture of Chinese medicine must not lose the advantage.

Note: Cocktail therapy is a method of treating AIDS proposed by Chinese-American scientist Dai-Yi Ho, which involves using 3-4 drugs at the same time like a cocktail, with each drug targeting a different part of the HIV reproduction cycle, to achieve the goal of treating AIDS.