What is the difference between Chinese medicine and western medicine in theory and application in treating diseases?

The most essential difference is that western medicine looks for evidence and Chinese medicine looks for reasons. Western medicine treats "part" and Chinese medicine treats "life". Doctors are actually people's repairmen. To make an inappropriate analogy, for example, the circuit board of a device is easy to control and prone to failure, then the repair union with western medicine thinking directly repairs or replaces the circuit board, while the repair union with Chinese medicine thinking understands the input voltage and current and the operating environment of the circuit board, and then does some mysterious things, such as adjusting the voltage and current, such as dehumidifying the environment and so on.

According to the framework of western medicine, the human body is made up of organs. If one is broken, repair it. The framework of traditional Chinese medicine holds that the human body is a system. As long as something goes wrong, the whole balance system must be unbalanced, so the balance is adjusted. Therefore, western medicine is small and governed, while Chinese medicine is big and changed. Each has his own merits.