What is the difference between TCM and Western medicine?

1 From the disease: Western medicine, most of the disease is called depends on the pathogen, or on a particular lesion foci and named, or on the physiology of a particular change and named. In short, the name of the disease of Western medicine, must depend on the physical diagnosis and experimental diagnosis, is more specific. Chinese medicine disease, or with the nature of the cause of the disease and named, or with the prominent symptoms and named, or from the location of the disease mechanism and named, although more abstract, but it is often from a holistic view of the limitations are less. But scientific or unscientific, so far can not be said.

2 From the medicine: most of the western medicine is only one, compounded at most only a few. The dosage of Western medicine is easy to control; Chinese medicine is very difficult, execution in the origin, the method of production, storage time and conditions and so on. Western medicine, no matter "endogenous" and "exogenous" chemical substances, are through the action of the body's proteins to play a role. Most of these proteins are enzymes, receptors and transporters for neurotransmitters, neuromodulators and hormones, or ion channels on cell membranes. "Ion channels" on the cell membrane. Nine times out of ten, the effective components of Chinese herbal medicines work through these proteins in the human body. Effective Chinese herbal medicine and from the "natural products" extracted from the biggest difference between the Western medicine lies in the purity.

3 From the medical equipment: Western medicine is developing by leaps and bounds, and all kinds of modern technology are integrated into modern medical equipment. Chinese medicine is also using these things, but there is nothing of their own equipment. To put it bluntly, even the fingerprint spectrum of the identification of traditional Chinese medicine has to rely on Western medical instruments to do.

4 From the theoretical development, Western medicine has entered the genetic era, the era of cloning, its research is more and more in-depth. And Chinese medicine seems to have stagnated.

5 From the direction: the combination of Chinese and Western medicine should be the most appropriate direction. With the development of Western medicine and other basic sciences, I think that can really help Chinese medicine, including traditional Chinese medicine, "take the essence, discard the dross" will not be the last Chinese medicine itself, but the modern Western medicine.