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Why is western medicine different from traditional Chinese medicine? Don't they all use the chemical components in drugs to treat diseases?

Although both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine contain chemical components, they are essentially different. Because Chinese medicine is natural, while western medicine is synthetic. We often say that "man-made is not as good as what God made", and what God made refers to nature. Nature is formed in the process of long-term evolution, in which the proportion and quantity of components conform to the laws of nature, and the artificial destruction of quantity and proportion after transformation will also cause changes in quality. Extracted the essence of natural ingredients that western medicine thinks are useful, while those useless ingredients may actually assist or restrict their essence. Moreover, many contents of traditional Chinese medicine have not been clearly studied by modern science. For example, some components of traditional Chinese medicine are regarded as the essence by western medicine, but the change process after they enter the body is not so clear. Some functions are not performed by essential components, but by intermediates or end products of their metabolism. Western medicine uses a single drug, even the compound is a purified component, while Chinese medicine uses unprocessed raw materials, and the interaction between these complex components of several flavors or flavors is more complicated, while western medicine does not have such complicated interaction. Traditional Chinese medicine is also processed, but this processing only changes its taste or nature, but does not change its composition or quantity. Western medicine works by chemical composition, while Chinese medicine works by four qi and five flavors, ups and downs, and meridian tropism.