I often see disputes between Chinese medicine and Western medicine. I also see that many people do not believe in Chinese medicine, saying that Chinese medicine is a liar and pseudoscience. Some people don’t know whether to see Chinese medicine or western medicine. I cherish Chinese medicine and western medicine from different angles and levels. , May it let you re-understand medicine.
1. Traditional Chinese medicine treats the patient as a living person, while Western medicine basically treats the patient as a machine.
Living humans have emotions. Living humans are divided into two parts, namely software and hardware. Software includes neuropsychiatric system, endocrine system, immune system, etc. Hardware includes skeleton, tendons, muscles, blood vessels, internal organs, etc. Living people’s illnesses include many factors, such as emotions, work and life pressure, climate, diet, rest, aging, etc., and then external infections and poisonings. Therefore, from the perspective of treatment, those factors such as emotions, stress, and aging cannot be solved with drugs and surgery. In the end, a “lump, tumor” is the indication for surgery. Treating a living person as a machine, cutting open, changing organs, removing lumps, etc. If it is a machine, it is easy to change parts, but the living person is not that simple. Social, psychological, work, and family factors must be taken into consideration.
Consider the living person as a vibrant city and analyze it. The urban command center is the control system (network, water, electricity, gas). Roads, bridges, underground drainage, lines, factories, learning, etc. are the urban framework. Does it regularly clean up rubbish, clean roads, dredge waterways, and check circuits and network cables? , Repairing the road surface is the most basic daily work, is that kind of emergency repair like western medical surgery is not rare. The conditioning emphasized by TCM is the work of maintaining the human body by the patient and the TCM physician. Reasonable diet, adequate sleep, relaxation, and proper exercise are the basic conditions for maintaining the balance of yin and yang in the human body.
2. Chinese medicine understands the human body from skin color, sound, smell, symptoms, etc., plus pulse and tongue images, and then sums up what kind of state the human body is, whether it is cold, hot, weak, solid, or wet, silt, or depressed. , Phlegm, this kind of body is a summary of the pathological state of the human body. Maybe you go for a blood test, or CT, MRI, or B-ultrasound. You can’t find any problems, but the patient’s pathological state is here, and the patient is uncomfortable.
The ancient people did not have the knowledge of natural science, and the knowledge of the human body was summed up from these appearances. In long-term practice, it has been observed that this treatment is useful. If we must use modern medicine to verify this pathological state of Chinese medicine, it must be in vain, because Western medicine does not consider it to be diseased, and blood tests, instrument checks and other tests are normal.
Western medicine emerged with the development of natural sciences. It pays more attention to human anatomy, physiology, pathology, etc. It treats the human body as a machine and uses experiments and instruments to observe, from organs, tissues, to cells, and molecules. From the perspective of natural science, these medical studies have contributed greatly to human health, solved many secrets of the human body, cured many difficult diseases, rescued many emergencies, and brought many patients back to life. These must be affirmed. However, Western medicine does not pay attention to patients within the normal range of laboratory tests and instrumental examinations; treating patients as machines for diagnosis and treatment is a shortcoming of Western medicine. It is necessary to know that the tens of millions of diseases that our human body suffers from, the ones that need surgery are very few, and the ones that can be cured with western medicine are very few.
3. Chinese medicine and western medicine treat patients, I use the analogy of people’s treatment of cars. Traditional Chinese medicine treats the human body like car maintenance, four-wheel alignment, and changing engine oil; while western medicine is more like repairing a car in a garage, changing parts, tires, and sheet metal. Living people have the ability to heal and repair themselves, and have emotional influence. Traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, cupping, and bone setting stimulate the body’s self-healing and repairing ability; while western medicine uses drugs, surgery and other external forces to interfere, eliminate, or eliminate diseases. Chinese medicine uses traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods to adjust the balance of yin and yang in the human body, so that the body is in a healthy state without suffering from disease or recovering quickly from disease. Western medicine is used to reduce inflammation and surgical removal, and the task is completed.
I listed the diseases with specific effects of acupuncture and moxibustion. I have been in the clinic for 40 years and feel that under current medical conditions, it is best to choose acupuncture for these diseases. Occipital neuralgia (back headache, ear pain, eye pain), allergic rhinitis, pharyngitis (nasal and pharynx itchy, runny nose, sneezing, cough), cervical spondylosis (headache, dizziness, neck pain, neck distension) ), shoulder and back fasciitis (back pain, tension, pain, chest tightness, hand numbness), low back fasciitis (back pain, leg pain), pelvic floor syndrome (back and leg pain, urgency, frequent urination, dysuria, Sexual intercourse pain, lower abdominal pain), knee osteoarthritis (senile arthritis, degenerative arthritis), sinus tarsi syndrome (ankle pain, swelling, weakness), stenosing tenosynovitis (wrist pain, finger pain, Snap your fingers). These diseases do not mean that only acupuncture and moxibustion can be cured, but that acupuncture and moxibustion have specific effects, and other treatments are non-specific treatment effects. It does not mean that other diseases cannot be cured by acupuncture, but it is the same as other treatments that have non-specific effects, just the magnitude of the effect.
Chinese medicine orthopedics has specific effects on the following diseases, such as mandibular joint disorders, stiff neck, cervical facet joint disorders, kyphosis, sacroiliac joint dislocation.
4. From a general perspective, Chinese medicine is at the level of governance, ensuring peace and security, prolonging life, and mental and physical health. The ancient sage doctor was at the level of governing the country. From the medical point of view, the most basic Chinese medicine doctors are also treating the “human” level. Chinese medicine recognizes human diseases and considers social and psychological factors. Guotai and people’s peace, family harmony, physical fitness, regular work and rest, etc. can keep the human body healthy, and it is also conducive to disease recovery. The national national fitness and sports policy, community and community sports facilities, national parks, and trails are all national health issues at the national level. These are also the concept of Chinese medicine, “Chinese medicine cures the last disease.”
At the level of treating “disease”, western medicine has symptoms and discomfort, and performs blood and urine tests, and then performs CT, MRI, B-ultrasound and other instrument checks, gives diagnostic instructions, and then performs medication and surgical treatment. Doctors and hospitals focus on “disease”. Therefore, Western medicine is easy to replicate and is very procedural. Every Western medicine doctor does and thinks the same. Blood tests, instrument checks, drug treatments, and surgical treatments are over after discharge.
5. Western medical examination indicators are not normal, X-ray, B-ultrasound, CT, MRI examinations have problems, which is a “Western medical disease”. At the level of “Western medicine’s disease”, Chinese medicine has no advantage. In western medicine, the inspection index is normal, but the instrument is not found to be abnormal, and western medicine treats it as a normal person, but the patient is suffering, and Chinese medicine plays a greater role at this stage. Western medicine pays more attention to the hardware part of the human body, such as the frame system of the human body, while Chinese medicine pays more attention to the software part of the human body, such as the control system of the human body.
6. Before the Ming Dynasty, Chinese medicine was in the leading position in the whole world. Not only did China’s neighboring countries learn and use Chinese medicine, it also spread to Europe across the sea. With the development of natural science and the rise of the industrial revolution, modern Western medicine has become the mainstream medicine, spreading all over the world. On the basis of continuing traditional Chinese medicine, China has also accepted modern Western medicine. The current Chinese medicine doctors not only learn and engage in traditional Chinese medicine, but also learn and engage in modern Western medicine. If Chinese medicine doctors can seamlessly connect the two medicines, it will be the most perfect medical system in modern society. The Chinese government has realized the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese and Western medicine, and has begun to vigorously develop Chinese medicine. Starting from elementary school students, it has increased the study of Chinese medicine. If the modern medical profession can also recognize the shortcomings and shortcomings of Western medicine, and accept or absorb the concepts of Chinese medicine with an open mind, that will also be the day when Chinese medicine disappears, and there will be no distinction between Chinese medicine and Western medicine in the world, that is, a complete and brand-new medicine. system.
It is now at the fourth level of the national epidemic in New Zealand, and the country is in a state of lockdown. I also have time to think about some medical issues. Welcome everyone to discuss!
（the over English article is translated from Chinese article by google, so maybe some isn’t correct, please read the original article https://drwin.co.nz/zh/%e3%80%90%e9%bb%84%e6%96%87%e5%b7%9d%e5%8d%9a%e5%a3%ab%e6%80%9d%e8%80%83%e3%80%91%e4%bb%8e%e4%b8%8d%e5%90%8c%e8%a7%92%e5%ba%a6%e7%9c%8b%e4%b8%ad%e5%8c%bb%e5%92%8c%e8%a5%bf%e5%8c%bb%ef%bc%8c%e4%b9%9f.html/?fbclid=IwAR3QlmHeA5H6CPXMIzS14SjXlalYjEt6L6W9mOzyopi5NCaVwzmeJIYVNvU)
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