What is the difference between Western medicine and Chinese medicine?

The difference between western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine is that traditional Chinese medicine is processed through traditional plants by concocting, forging and other methods, it has a strong herbal flavor, the efficacy of the treatment of disease is slower, but less stimulation of the gastrointestinal wall, and western medicine includes organic or inorganic chemicals, as well as biologics, which has a wider range of treatments, fast efficacy, and obvious effect in treating disease.