The advantages of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine are complementary

April 19, 2018 chengdu commercial paper

Director of hematology department, affiliated hospital of chengdu university of traditional Chinese medicine.

Chief physician/professor, top doctor in sichuan province.

Often faced with such confusion: sick, should see traditional Chinese medicine or see western medicine? TCM seems to represent the ancient and traditional, the western medicine represents the advanced, the trend. As a matter of fact, traditional Chinese and western medicine work conscientiously in the problems of life and death. They all have their own advantages and disadvantages. Whether common or difficult, the combination of Chinese and western medicine is often more beneficial.

- mainstream trend: western medicine + traditional Chinese medicine.

The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine has been learning from each other, modern technology in the study, the use of modern western medicine diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine: CT, mri, colour to exceed, exsanguinate assay, such as resistance to infection, radiation and chemotherapy and blood transfusion support treatment. In recent years, western medicine has also begun to advocate individualized and precise treatment concept, which is similar to the "syndrome differentiation" of traditional Chinese medicine. At the same time, proprietary Chinese medicine (TCM drugs preparations) is widely used in western medicine doctor cure is widespread in, will also suggest refractory recurrent disease in traditional Chinese medicine treatment, + the mode of Chinese traditional medicine western medicine gradually thorough popular feeling.

- clinical application, each with confusion.

In ancient times, there was no understanding of diabetes, hypertension, leukemia, tumor, etc. Modern Chinese medicine needs to learn the corresponding diagnosis and treatment methods. However, western medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and difficult diseases also found that the recovery of the disease is still a long way to recover, while acupuncture and rehabilitation therapy, TCM syndrome differentiation therapy has its value. When the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation for the origin, blisters, cold evil, toxic heat causes, such as by dampness, invigorate the circulation and the treatment such as heat, cold condition will be improved, and western medicine is not the understanding and the drug efficacy, helpless in the face of these problems. In fact, pure western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine can only partially solve the diseases in their respective fields.

- there is nothing wrong with a ruler.

The theory system of Chinese and western medicine is different, but the goal of recovery is consistent. The changes of The Times will give birth to new diseases and new medical problems. Both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine need to innovate and study countermeasures.

The combination of inches and feet can be tailored. The complementary ability of Chinese and western medicine can be superimposed on each other, so as to achieve the result of reducing poison and breaking through the limits. For example, chemotherapy can attack blood tumor cells, resulting in bone marrow suppression, liver and kidney damage, and gastrointestinal damage. The routine western medicine for the treatment of aplastic anemia is highly toxic, and it will restrict the established treatment plan, and the above problems are more obvious to the elderly and the deficient people. The mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine is not for killing tumor cells and so on, but by the traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation and treatment, from the road of traditional Chinese medicine has realized the immune regulation, inhibiting tumor, improve the bone marrow, liver enzyme, adjust the treatment of gastrointestinal function, after chemotherapy damage the body played a role in post-disaster reconstruction. In the end, Chinese and western medicine are different and different.

- can be west, both sides.

Western medicine can solve the problem, Chinese medicine can not participate; Chinese medicine can solve the problem, western medicine also need not mix. For example, the treatment of tumor chemoradiotherapy, surgical resection, anti-infection, etc., Chinese medicine is a disadvantage; In cold, hot, warm, cold physique identification and corresponding individualized medicine, as well as the regulation and protection of the liver and kidney function, western medicine also lacks effective methods. Many difficult diseases are difficult to be solved properly by western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine, especially when it comes to the cross-boundary and cross-boundary problems between the two. Otherwise, will miss the best time to treat, then think of traditional Chinese medicine, or hurriedly go to see western medicine, often too late. Doctors and patients may be closer to health if they have known each other.