Traditional Chinese medicine, on the other hand, adopts the research methods of image thinking and comparative method to understand the changing law of human life within the framework of the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. All natural entities recognized by TCM are synchronized with the changes of natural time and space? Harmony between man and nature? Overall connection. Therefore, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, blood type and cancer, two products of mechanical reductionism, are beyond the scope of Chinese medicine. Just as Chinese medicine recognizes that air pockets and meridians are not within the scope of scientific mechanical reduction. Although Chinese medicine can't deconstruct the pathological phenomenon of cancer from the human body like western medicine, as long as there is abnormality in the human body, Chinese medicine can treat it through syndrome differentiation and four diagnoses. Similarly, although Chinese medicine can't deconstruct COVID-19 from the natural environment like western medicine, it can still achieve effective treatment according to the overall symptoms of COVID-19 patients.
This problem also exposes the key to the lack of confidence in Chinese medicine by the personnel of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine. People who combine traditional Chinese and western medicine are blinded by the consciousness of scientific reduction, and often measure the theory of traditional Chinese medicine by the pathological phenomena deconstructed by western medicine from human corpses. For example, they often ask: can Chinese medicine lower blood sugar? Can Chinese medicine lower blood pressure? Can Chinese medicine treat acute appendicitis? Because there is no such abstract pathology in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, they think that traditional Chinese medicine cannot treat such diseases, and then think that the curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine is not as good as that of western medicine, and they tend to adopt the diagnosis and treatment method of western medicine in clinic. In particular, those scientism believers who oppose Chinese medicine take advantage of the pathological phenomenon that Chinese medicine has not been deconstructed by western medicine to deny and vilify Chinese medicine at will.
Chinese medicine and western medicine are the products of two different world views and ways of thinking, and they are incommensurable, so from the perspective of western medicine theory, Chinese medicine will have incomprehension and distrust. Whether we know or develop TCM, we should start from the subjective consciousness of China culture, not from the subjective consciousness of western science and culture.