中医TCM与西医WesternMedicine的比较

1、1tcm represents a combination of humanities and natural sciences, embracing profound philosophical ideas of the chinese nation. the value that underpins the principle and practices of tcm is based on the daoism. the approach to understanding the universe and human body is unique. everything is inter

2、dependent and mutually interactive. nothing is excluded; nothing is interpreted without reference to the whole. 2+man should observe the law of the nature and seek for the unity of the heaven and humanity. +the prescription in tcm should include the sovereign, minister, assistant and messenger ingre

3、dient drugs at the same time.3western medicine is concerned with isolated diseases categories or agents of disease. it seeks to understand a system always by breaking it down into its constituent parts. that means analytical experiments are emphasized and examination parameters are needed. 4tcm repr

4、esents the core value of chinese civilization so that it lays great stress on the principle of harmony. tcm advocates that yin and yang should be balanced to obtain the golden mean. 5+chinese “soft exercise” which contains taiji, qigong, and so on set great store by the importance of harmony between

5、 the natural qi and the innate qi. 6nevertheless, western medicine is committed to isolating first, then controlling and last destroying. therefore, the physicians logic is analytic which is quite different from tcm doctors.7tcm emphasizes on individuality. tcm doctors lay great emphasis on the pers

6、on who is sick rather than the illness the patient contracts. 8+it gives treatment based on full consideration of the environment, individual constitution, and climatic and seasonal conditions. +the way of inspection, auscultation & olfaction, inquiry, and palpation9in a typical study a western

7、physician, for example, using upper-gastrointestinal x-ray or endoscopy by means of a fiberscope, diagnoses six patients with stomach pain as having peptic ulcer disease. that means from the western doctors perspective, all these patients suffer from the same disorder. 10+ tcm gives special importance to preventative treatment, but the western medicine is not. +tcm has developed unique and simple tools for treatment, such as the small splints for osteopathy, the spoons used in g