Is TCM a science? What's the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine?

Traditional Chinese medicine has a broad spirit, theoretical works, practical records, thousands of years of origin, development and reality. It has a complete theoretical system and belongs to science of course.

I personally prefer Chinese medicine. I think Chinese medicine, as the intellectual heritage of ancestors, pays attention to overall harmony and does less harm to the body than western medicine.

First of all, the first difference: in terms of treatment methods, western medicine adopts the method of opposing struggle, while Chinese medicine pays attention to the balanced and coordinated treatment method. Western medicine often talks about antibiotics, anti-virus, anti-tumor and even anti-aging medical terms. However, Chinese medicine is fundamental to treating diseases. Chinese medicine believes that there is something wrong with the human body because of its imbalance. Therefore, starting from the whole, we advocate restoring human balance and naturally eliminating symptoms and signs.

Second, western medicine treatment takes symptoms as the breakthrough point, and advocates the implementation of drug antagonism treatment at a certain onset point, while Chinese medicine treatment is divided into attribute treatment. Take the common cold as an example, the hot cold is treated with drugs for clearing away heat and toxic materials, and the cold is treated with drugs for expelling wind. Cold constitution belongs to yang deficiency in the body, which needs to regulate yang slowly, from daily diet to traditional Chinese medicine prescription, and take a multi-pronged approach.

Third, from the point of view of the drugs used in treatment, most of the drugs used in western medicine are cold laboratory synthetic experiments, which are cold and lifeless. However, the medicines used in Chinese medicine are all herbs grown in nature, which have experienced the baptism of the essence of the sun and the moon, the experience of wind, frost, rain and snow, and are truly vital medicinal materials. They are harmful to the body, but compared with western medicine, they are not harmful.

Finally, Chinese medicine requires a lot of doctors' medical skills, and the treatment method of "seeing, listening and asking" needs a lot of experience as the basis of dependence. Western medicine, on the other hand, belongs to standardized treatment and has low requirements for doctors. But with the development of modern medicine, there are fewer and fewer good Chinese medicine practitioners who can calm down and study traditional medicine. This is a trend, but it also makes people feel regret and heartache.