Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) recognizes diseases on the basis of meridians and qi and blood, mainly knowing whether the yin and yang of the body are balanced and whether qi and blood are unobstructed. As for pathogenic microorganisms and organic diseases, Chinese medicine believes that this is the result of imbalance of yin and yang and qi and blood, so we don't need to pay attention to it at all. If yin and yang are balanced and qi is smooth, exogenous pathogens cannot invade the body. Similarly, if the yin and yang of the body are balanced and the qi is smooth, we can rely on our own defense to remove pathogenic microorganisms that have invaded the body. This is Chinese medicine. The starting point and focus of his treatment is people themselves, and he studies how to make people healthy rather than how to eliminate diseases, so-called drug therapy.
One is to drive away the disease, and the other is to make the body peaceful. They look the same, but they are very different in consideration. You can tell who is active and who is passive at a glance.
I studied western medicine first, and then taught myself Chinese medicine. I found that western medicine is full of loopholes. In fact, the original intention of western medicine is not like this. The concept of western medicine was also people-oriented when it was invented by our ancestors. I don't know why, but later it developed in the opposite direction. No matter how advanced the scientific support, we can't change this passive state that always follows the disease. Only when the pathogen mutates a little can we do nothing for quite a while. On the contrary, if we put people first, we can keep changing. No matter how we change, we can't escape the rise and fall of yin and yang and the life and death of the five elements.
I believe that the theory of TCM is absolutely advanced. Based on this theory, we can ignore the myriad changes of diseases and deal with them calmly, but the lack of support from modern science and technology is indeed a fact. The combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine is not western medicine, but the application of modern science and technology in traditional Chinese medicine.