What are the similarities between the etiology of Chinese medicine and modern medicine?

The etiology of Chinese medicine believes that there are three causes of human morbidity, i.e., internal cause, external cause, and not internal and external cause, and believes that the internal cause is the main cause of human morbidity, i.e., the so-called righteousness can not be dried up by evil, and evil of the gas must be weak. The external cause is the external factors of the disease, such as the six external factors, is the external conditions of the disease, and the external cause is through the internal cause of the role, that is to say, the internal cause is the basis of the disease external cause is the conditions of the disease. As for not internal and external causes, in fact, can be summarized in the internal or external causes.

The etiology of modern medicine is basically the same as that of traditional Chinese medicine. First, there are two major aspects, external and internal, and the etiology of infectious diseases and traumatic diseases are categorized as external. Most other diseases can be categorized among internal causes. However, whether a disease develops or not (especially infectious diseases) is determined by the strength of the body's resistance (immunity), that is to say, both Chinese and Western medicine believe that the body's resistance determines whether or not the disease develops. This is the second point of convergence between the etiology of Chinese medicine and that of modern medicine.