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Therapies of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine |
What traditional Chinese medicine lays stress on is the evidence and not the disease. Evidence differs from symptom. When the human body is under the influence of some disease determiners, the balanced relationships in the internal organs and between yin and yang can be disrupted, which means that the patient is temporarily in an abnormal physiological condition.
The traditional Chinese medical practitioner may discover some abnormality in the patient¡¯s symptoms, pulse condition and tongue appearance, and then by means of distinguishing the evidence and administering the required treatment, such as giving a prescription and employing acupuncture and moxibustion, get the abnormality corrected or eliminated. After the organism has regained equilibrium in yin and yang, health can be recovered. Many ¡°diseases¡± in the therapy of traditional Chinese medicine,Western medicine may, at different stages of the given diseases, resemble certain evidences in traditional Chinese medicine, whereas certain "evidences" in the health therapy of traditional Chinese medicine may include in their purview certain diseases in the health therapy of Western medicine.
Obviously, the biggest dividing line in logical thinking between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine consists in epistemology. Traditional Chinese medicine looks upon the whole universe as one organism; and since the universe is an organism, all things in it are related to each other without exception by being interdependent, mutually restraining, balanced and in harmony. Owing to the fact that man is also looked upon as a ¡°universe¡±, though on a small scale, the view is entertained that between the internal organs of the human body there also exist the requirement for equilibrium between yin and yang and the phenomenon of mutual reinforcement and mutual neutralization.
Traditional Chinese medicine, having gone through a process of development of thousands of years, has succeeded in sublimating from an empirical type of medicine to a systematic one with its unique and peculiar theory and its complete and comprehensive methodology. It is the embodiment of the typical Eastern mode of thinking. However, there are certain limitations to this methodology, because the processes of abstract thinking and logical reasoning are comparatively too great in number, resulting in a lack of concreteness and definiteness. Similarly, the health therapy of Western medicine also suffers obvious limitations because its basic theory is not closely related to philosophy. It adopts a certain purely biological point of view and, therefore, does not pay enough attention to how natural environment and psychological factors influence the illness and health of mankind.
Physicians, no matter whether they are traditional Chinese medical practitioners or doctors of western medicine, may belong to somewhat different times, have dissimilar cultural backgrounds, and are used to thinking somehow in not the same way. This fact is reflected in their methods of treating patients. Their diagnostic methods may be somewhat different; there may be dissimilarities in their cognition and methods of treating patients, and even their prescriptions may differ from each other. What is the same of them is their aim, their sole aim of therapy, which is to cure patients¡¯ diseases and alleviate their suffering.
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