The difference between modern medicine and traditional medicine

Many people don't understand the difference between "Chinese medicine and western medicine" and its value in human history. . & ltbr/>；

Internationally, traditional Chinese medicine and ancient medicine in other countries and regions are called "traditional medicine". Traditional medicine is not only available in China, but also abroad. What China people now call "western medicine" is called "modern medicine" abroad to distinguish it from ancient traditional medicine. After the birth of western medicine, it immediately replaced those foreign traditional medicine and became the mainstream (in fact, the current situation in China is also the same).

The biggest difference between traditional medicine and modern medicine is that traditional medicine is empirical medicine and modern medicine is empirical medicine. Traditional medicine knows what it is, but does not know why. For example, Li Shizhen tastes a hundred herbs. If someone has a high fever, Li Shizhen will give him a prescription, but when another person also has a high fever, using the same prescription may not work. . Because traditional medicine does not know the cause of high fever, now medicine knows that high fever is caused by viruses, and different viruses need to use different antiviral antibiotics. . In other words, Chinese medicine is "knowing what it is, but not knowing why". When seeing a doctor, it is basically judged according to "approximate symptoms", which is very vague, rough and inaccurate. . & ltbr/>；

Let's talk about the value of traditional medicine and modern medicine to human beings:

In the thousands of years before modern medicine was recorded, the average life expectancy of human beings was basically 30-40 years old in both the west and the east, and the reason for the short life expectancy was that the virus could not be conquered and spread on a large scale. & ltbr/>；

In recorded history, no matter in China or the west, a plague will lead to a large number of deaths and population decline. What China people call a "plague" is the spread of viruses. . Until the birth of modern medicine hundreds of years ago, with antibiotics against different viruses, the average life expectancy of human beings increased rapidly to about 70 years old.