What is Chinese medicine, Western medicine, what is the difference?

Chinese medicine refers to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine as a guide, with a unique theoretical system and application form, used for the prevention and treatment of disease and has the effect of rehabilitation and health care of natural medicines and their processed substitutes, mainly including plant drugs, animal drugs, mineral drugs.

Chinese working people for thousands of years in the process of fighting diseases, through practice, continuous understanding, and gradually accumulated a wealth of medical knowledge. The earliest known work on materia medica is called Shennong Ben Cao Jing (The Classic of the Materia Medica of Shennong).

Li Shizhen, a great physician of the Ming Dynasty, compiled the Compendium of Materia Medica, a masterpiece of materia medica that meets the needs of the times, which contains 1,892 kinds of medicines and more than 11,000 accompanying prescriptions.

Western medicine, relative to the motherland of traditional Chinese medicine, refers to modern medicine with drugs, generally made of chemical synthesis or from natural products. Western medicines are organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals and biological products. The dosage is more precise than that of Chinese medicine, usually measured in milligrams.

Differences between TCM and Western medicine:

Chinese medicine looks at things from a macroscopic point of view, viewing the human being as an organic whole, with the parts of the organism interacting with each other. Chinese medicine has macro-accuracy and lacks micro-accuracy; whereas Western medicine looks at things from a micro perspective, uses an analytical approach, and does not see a person as a human being but as a combination of parts, and has micro-accuracy but not macro-accuracy.

Simply put, western medicine is mostly a chemically synthesized single ingredient, mostly aimed at restoring the organs where pathology occurs. It is aimed at the "disease" to introduce the "fight". Chinese medicine is a natural plant, animal, mineral, etc. in accordance with certain principles of the composition of the compound, mostly to restore the human body and the environment or the body's internal organs between the imbalance of the situation. It is the introduction of "evidence" into 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 Chinese medicine and Western medicine still stems from a different understanding of human health and disease.

Lastly, I would like to say that the medical heritage accumulated by the ancient Chinese working people through long-term practice is extremely rich and valuable, and Chinese medicine should not be belittled, but should be carried forward for the benefit of mankind.