What's the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine?

Chinese patent medicine is a kind of Chinese medicine product with different dosage forms made from Chinese herbal medicines, including pills, powders, ointments and pills. It is the essence of effective prescription created and summarized by China medical scientists through thousands of years of medical practice.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medicine used by TCM, which is unique to traditional medicine in China. Traditional Chinese medicine is divided into Chinese patent medicine and Chinese herbal medicine according to the processing technology. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly originated in China, except for plant medicine, animal medicine such as snake gall, bear gall, Agkistrodon, velvet antler and antlers. Crustaceans, such as pearls and clams; Minerals such as keel and magnet are all traditional Chinese medicines used to treat diseases. A few Chinese medicines originated from foreign countries, such as American ginseng.

Western medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine, relative to the motherland, refers to the drugs used by western medicine, which are generally made by chemical synthesis or extracted from natural products; Include aspirin, penicillin, painkillers, etc. Western medicine is organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals and biological products. Look at the instructions, there are chemical names and structural formulas, and the dosage is more accurate than that of traditional Chinese medicine, generally in milligrams.

Even some commonly used Chinese medicines should be called western medicine if they are used as western medicine only considering their performance and curative effect under the theoretical system of western medicine.