Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Western medicine - the next (turn)

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comparative analysis of Chinese and Western medicine under the four-mm, return to nature trend of Chinese and Western medicine
With the rapid population growth, environmental deterioration, the modern disease threats to humans is being or has been replaced in the past of infectious diseases at the same time, the human spectrum of disease, health ideas, western medicine side effects and drug resistance, and changes in medical costs and other issues become increasingly prominent. by the simple medical model of human disease treatment into prevention , health care, treatment, rehabilitation model combining all kinds of traditional medicine is playing an increasing role. the international medical community to a the role and status had a great impact.
(a) changes in disease spectrum of human diseases
because modern society is no longer a simple infection or nutritional factors, but about the natural environment, social environment, mental and physical, and many other complex factors, produced a change in the human disease spectrum, this change has been greater than the threat of human bacterial diseases. Western medicine is experimental medicine, which emphasizes the confrontation therapy, with elimination of the cause, corrective pathology, clear the lesions and other treatments, with anti-bacterial, anti-virus, anti-tumor and other anti-microbial metabolism of chemotherapy directly to anti-virus sterilization, this method accelerates the pathogens mutate into creating new pathogens and new diseases, the reasons for so that changes in human disease spectrum. Western is a group medical, general, is for a sick group, the clear cause of the condition, to be able to prescribe the right medicine to confront drug treatment, such as drug eradication of intestinal bacteria. For obvious personality traits, and must address the complex, not very clear cause of the disease, efficacy is often not very good.
human clinical practice in medicine is to summarize the experience of medicine, which emphasizes the treatment of non-confrontation, and guide the patient to rely on ability to regulate their own body balance rehabilitation, drug use is to mobilize the people of this complex, open giant system of self-organization. The whole concept of Heaven and Differential Treatment in the methodology, but also to many factors for the treatment of the modern integrated, there is a clear individual characteristics of various diseases. For example, since the spring of this year, No special effects medicine; but Chinese medicine for the governance is effective. the advantages of Chinese medicine characteristics, contains solution to the current Western medicine has not completely overcome the disease and high mortality (such as cancer, AIDS, SARS, etc.), iatrogenic and modern medicine borne disease potential, the cause of medicine's contribution to human health, as well as showing good prospects for development, are being further recognized by the people.
(b) human health
scientific development concept to today, it became clear understanding that, whether biological or microbiological, balance is most important to their survival conditions. When people maintain that relative balance, the health of people in a relatively standard. With the development of human society, people gradually improved living standards, health requirements and therefore will keep on changing. In modern society, people not only asked not to be suffering from disease, but also to maintain the best physical condition required to meet the ever-accelerating pace of life. Therefore, the human ; health care, of disease status (present, some Western called can not carry out so-called The yin and yang balance, and therefore not yet entered for the disease state, and the body's yin and yang balance is the deviation of the sub-healthy That is from the human body to regulate the balance of the entire system to achieve the conquest of disease and the purpose of eradication of the disease.
Chinese medicine has its unique advantages, a long history, systems theory, a wealth of practice, the vast literature, refined prescription, is thousands of years of scientific practice tests, so thousands of years without failure, especially in medical diagnosis and treatment, the pursuit of of good science, cultural and social basis of the environment, there are already thousands of years of application history. Therefore, Chinese medicine has become increasingly favored by the people of the world.
WHO on : Thus, in medicine as a medical disease to healthy development of mainstream medicine, at home and abroad by more and more attention. Meanwhile, the concept of human health and the international environment changes, to the development of Chinese medicine in China to provide unprecedented sound opportunities.
(c) side effects and drug problems
U.S. Rand Corporation recently published a report that: and the impact of environmental factors, infectious disease has been replaced from the direct military threat of hostile countries and the international community and governments face serious challenges activities change, human behavior changes, antibiotics and other drugs misuse, donated blood products, climate change, pollution of water and biological terrorism has an impact on the scope and speed of the United States spread of infectious diseases the main factor. other chemicals, as well as the use of antibiotics in animals has seriously reduced the role of these antibiotics, resulting in a new virus. the use of chemicals, chemical pollution, exacerbated by the human body, so that the immune response against overload error, so that immune hypersensitivity, autoimmune disease and immune deficiencies such as this increase. It has been found, of years of human peripheral white blood cell count less than one-third of the male sperm count and activity was significantly reduced, indicating that defense capabilities and the continuation of the human race the ability of the decline. People chemical toxicity and drug resistance is growing concern, making the reliability of modern biomedical challenge. the past, people looked up the success of modern biomedicine that has been basically eradicated infectious diseases, infectious diseases and the remaining can also be controlled through immunization and antibiotics. but now found that pathogenic bacteria show a clear resistance to adapt to the environment and the ability to You resurgence of old infectious diseases, even serious outbreak, and there have been some previous years, did not know the fatal virus, the modern way of life, transportation, environmental factors also increases the likelihood of its spread. people's health is seriously threatened, people struggle with the disease, the natural treasure of the Chinese nation eyeing m Chinese medicine.
Western culture to provide the necessary nature of human existence endless, endless hot pursuit, proposed the some benefits, but also to human survival and development has brought many problems, such as environmental pollution, air pollution, ozone depletion, ecological balance destruction, species extinction, population explosion, the profusion of new diseases, water resources are scarce and so on. For example, chemical pesticides reducing agricultural pests and fertilizer to make food production, but caused by environmental pollution and ecological destruction is difficult to measure. Since most of modern medicine, Western medicine developed by chemical substances, their effect on the clear and powerful anti-pathogenic role of the original, this is it advantages. but more or less due to chemical drugs there are some side effects, some very obvious side effects of drugs, and even lead to more serious drug-induced diseases, but also resistance. can be seen in resolving the Western human disease, but also to the human body causing serious injury. medicine side effects more and more people concerned about the issue. human struggle with nature and practice of disease, the relationship between man and nature have a more profound knowledge, increasing awareness of nature conservation. Now people began to advocate without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, restoration of ecological agriculture. medical concepts and ideas.
Eastern culture and nature advocates who are friends, not enemies, can not speak to , food, shelter, everything you need. Only in this way, the human future can be guaranteed. This is the culture of the essence of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese mostly from natural animal, vegetable or mineral, which for pathogens Western medicine often than direct destruction, but the application of traditional Chinese medicine is not to destroy the enemy, but the mobilization of human self-organization or self-recovery capability. plus thousands of years, Chinese medicine formulations by monarch Satsukai by Smell the mutual compatibility, play a synergistic attenuated role, further reducing the toxic side effects. Thus, in the return to nature, with the trend of natural medicine, natural medicine, an emerging global heat, as from a natural Chinese medicine will also usher in a global R & D and application of high tide .
(d) rising health care costs
with the development of modern medicine, a variety of increasingly sophisticated medical testing equipment, but also led to ever-increasing cost of testing; At the same time, mainly by chemical synthesis The development cost of medicine is rising, continue to extend the development cycle, the successful development of a new medicine takes about 10 billion U.S. dollars, 10 years, resulting in increasing prices of western medicine. At present the world, whether developed or developing countries, regardless of the government or individuals, are increasingly difficult to pay rising health costs, making the World Health Organization upward trend in the way, so, people gradually set their sights on Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine that will further expand the market, people are increasingly feeling the irresistible charm of Chinese medicine.
of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the world's best preserved traditional medicine, the biggest advantage in addition to represent the future direction of medicine, is that simple and inexpensive testing. Compared with modern medicine, Chinese medicine, or whether it is detected to be much lower treatment costs, but its efficacy has been five thousand years of Chinese confirmed by the proliferation of national prosperity, which, for the overburdened national governments, especially governments in developing countries, no doubt the development of Chinese medicine is to achieve disease lack of effective drugs, treatment no more than the bypass, security support, for the heart, about the treatment of these diseases among the tens of thousands to several hundred thousand dollars. And Traditional Chinese Medicine with conservative therapy, Chinese medicine hospital in Beijing Po Yan Xue Yanping Dan Po doctor ordered second case, the patient monthly drug costs between 600-800 dollars, about two years of individual chronic disease need to take medicine, the total cost of about 2 million. the cost of Western medicine is almost 10:1. < br> At present, there has been a return to basics, back to nature, the trend of using natural medicines, an important reason that can not afford rising health care costs. In our country, rely on to guarantee the health of Chinese medicine, especially in the vast rural areas, still the majority. However, our current Western medicine staff officers only one-fifth of the number of Chinese medicine hospital in the West the number of hospitals that only a quarter of students in Chinese institutions of the West Hospital only one-fifth of students in China only a handful of high-level doctor of Chinese medicine. Compared with Western medicine, Chinese medicine was shrinking. In particular, our current laws and regulations with reference to Chinese medicine Western medicine standards, development of Chinese medicine and more restricted. This situation must change.
Chinese medicine in China has a vast market, we must account for 22% of the world's population, public health development in China to establish its importance, the Chinese people to the cause of health care play a significant role, resulting in the most extensive effects make it truly become the health of our people to ensure that the main force.
five, the development of modern science and technology of Chinese and Western medicine
able to use modern science, phenomenon, however, the characteristics of complex phenomena and laws of fall of the the system first appeared in Science, the Bertalanffy's system theory, Shannon's information theory, Wiener's cybernetics, commonly known as information, control, and other scientific concepts, to build integrity, connectivity, dynamic, hierarchical order and other works. systems theory has proposed a system of order problem, but did not answer the specific mechanism of changes ordered what. So 60 along with the rise since been called the The New Three Theories and tips from disorderly to orderly system to establish and maintain an orderly and stable mechanisms and laws, proposed dissipation lead to an orderly, coordinated and orderly led, super cycle that has led the basic principles of order, also known as the system self-organization theory . Qian: system and isolated areas clearly distinguished from the system, the by Yin Pingyang secret. Nobel laureate Prigogine said, overall, a good combination of understanding of coordination will lead to a new view of natural philosophy and natural, The latest theory has shown the close relationship with medicine and medical generate impetus for the future. In particular, the development of Chinese medicine.
(a) the development of the theory of reducing the impact of Western medicine
20 Century, elements with atomic theory and the theory of reduction based on the nature of all physical phenomena are reduced to the smallest particles of matter, this view have a significant impact on Western medicine. It is the people break off from the whole, the use of anatomical, experimental, etc. method to study the microscopic details of some, suggesting a range of health and disease specific mechanisms and rules of the physiology, pathology, pharmacology of various content with physics, chemistry, biology, knowledge and language to put forward a series of verifiable quantitative physical and chemical indicators, so that people understand the disease more accurate and strict, with more maneuverability. can be said that the reductionist way of thinking on the development of Western medicine played an important role. However, with modern technology development, reduction of the limitations of Western medicine has emerged. First, not by the human body parts. For example, man is made of differentiation and development of a fertilized egg. This shows that the whole contains some, but not by part of the overall combination, on the contrary, some generated by the whole division. Second, the decomposition of the body is limited. people and machines can not be treated equally. As the a study of a change, making it difficult to accurately reflect the original study and understanding. For example, people have thought, the various parts of the body are linked, interaction, and decomposition of the inevitable destruction of all parts of the body between them contact and interaction between the decomposed parts of the original meaning of the various parts of a whole different. Third, the adaptability of the human body is limited. Man is the most advanced differentiation system, although at certain angles and has a specific scope biodegradable and can be reductive, however, by its very nature, this is a non-decomposable, irreducible. If you restore some of the human body organs to function without the people and the law.
1856 �� Bernard In more and more problems can not be restored. First, the changes of disease spectrum, the second is the emergence of incurable diseases, the third is , after analysis of the system began to be dismantled to replace those parts together and return to the whole, to study and suggest fall outside the reductionist view that the characteristics of complex phenomena and laws of the formation of a system of ways of thinking . With the system theory and system science research in biomedical applications, it was becoming increasingly clear that the Chinese medicine way of thinking consistent with the system of nature, or more strictly speaking, the system on line with Chinese way of thinking. < br> (ii) the development of systems theory of Chinese medicine since the late
20 century, Austrian-American biologist Bertalanffy first system method, and found all the integrated systems or subsystems for general principles. from Reduction of the overall concept to the system from the mechanistic view, people have come to realize the object of scientific research is not one of the parts, but one of the system, which hope to establish the system of scientific concepts, to from the internal structure, structural elements mutual relations to understand the world.
the overall concept of Chinese medicine and the system of with nature to maintain a close relationship, the relationship between man and nature that is a whole that they are impact, the human body itself, the various tissues and organs composed of several organizations, organs formed by a number of subsystems, these subsystems communicate through the meridians, blood running, interconnected and formed between the various subsystems activities in addition to their functions, but also interrelated, co-organized activities of the human body function of the system. As the five internal organs are coordinated so that the body remained relatively stable.
the advent of information theory and cybernetics, also the development of Chinese medicine to create a full new areas. is the main point of information theory to study complex matters, the overall structure of things do not need to be considered, but only the flow of information to its comprehensive study to gain knowledge about the overall system performance. For example: ; liver opens into the eye, basis, without regard to the specific object of study the structure and movement patterns, the system for the purpose of the abstract movement information transformation process, that is, information input, storage, output and feedback process. It is because of the normal flow of information, especially the feedback information exists, allows the system to achieve control in accordance with the intended target. And the characteristics of Chinese medicine is based on Chinese medicine theory method for analysis and processing problems in the course of human life the foundation, do not focus on the anatomy of the human body and its movement patterns change, the human life abstract exercise body surface during the process of information transformation, which reflects the changes within the human body to the surface, collected by four diagnostic information, according to Chinese medicine basic theory and experience of processing the information gathered to form a prescription drug, intervention within the human body changes. Through this process, especially the feedback information generated after the intervention, making the movement of human life back to normal according to the intended target.
Chinese medicine treatments include drug therapy and non-drug therapy. Drug therapy focus is not Chinese medicine is based on the chemical composition of the material and structure, but rather reflected by a variety of traditional Chinese medicine to be a comprehensive analysis of information, the positioning of the formation of Chinese herbs, and make full use and function of the overall criteria for group parties compatibility through the comprehensive application of this whole to achieve the purpose of efficiency attenuated. non-drug therapies include acupuncture and massage and other therapies, the focus of their research, such as meridians, acupuncture points, etc., not anatomical entities, but the human body complex giant system reflect the overall function of the information. Thus, the treatment of Chinese medicine is built on the basis of information methods. We have reason to believe that the development of information science to further understanding of the people, understanding and development of Chinese medicine in the basic concepts and methods will have a great help .1979, the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute and Beijing to establish the research and control of the object to be seen as a black box, and one way is to study without disturbance and destruction under the conditions of the internal structure of the object, through the establishment of black-box study the content of reasoning, so as to achieve the purpose of its own. For example: the whole concept of traditional Chinese medicine as a black box, using the human body without opening the black box approach to the study of human life and activities of law.
20 systems that have emerged since the late science and systems thinking in traditional Chinese medicine theory coincide. a series of new theories of modern science, In order to study human health and disease has opened a new path. With modern technology toward deeper integration, intelligent development, Chinese medicine will one day be explained post-modern science and technology, medical advances contribute to the world.
In summary, the Chinese medicine and modern scientific thinking on the same system, and its diagnosis and treatment and basic use of the systems analysis, and thus Chinese medicine and modern science has a combination of system theory a good foundation; the same time, the system of scientific development, but also for the development of Chinese medicine provides the most advanced methods and means. We have reason to believe that the scientific Chinese medicine combined with the system will promote the traditional Chinese medicine have leap-type development, becoming the science of this century one of the most viable.
the above comparison we believe that the science behind Chinese medicine is not, but an advanced science. We should be supported by modern technology, to seize the good opportunity to accelerate the pace of development of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine to determine the position as the leading health insurance system in China.
six, Chinese medicine and clinical effectiveness of internal scientific Chinese medicine will make the medical industry in China
dominant < br> Chinese medicine for thousands of years of development through the establishment of a unique theoretical system of Chinese medicine, and psychosomatic unity with the whole scientific point of view, has a long diagnosis and treatment characteristics, there are many unique treatment method. Chinese medicine in disease prevention healing, improve immune function, prevention of infectious diseases has made remarkable achievements, the cause of human health care has made an indelible contribution.
(a) study the characteristics of Chinese medicine research
is the spontaneous life processes, the performance of the body in the overall level of response to the state and its motion, change, disease process in which the syndrome and syndrome of movement, change; Western research constitutes human organs, tissues, cellular, molecular structure and function. from the research level is concerned, the object of living in TCM research organs, tissues, cells, above the molecular level, between man and nature, between societies. Its features are four:
1. The so-called holistic holistic
the one hand, Chinese medicine refers to the body without opening the see the local state; on the other hand, these syndromes and their movement and change by psychological factors in addition to, but also directly with the social, natural and other factors change. and scalpels, Organ, tissue and other local state no such features. So syndrome is a biological, psychological, social (natural) factors acting on the human life processes in the overall level of performance of the state combined. Chinese seized the most comprehensive and the overall state of its real object of study, from the height of a more scientific nature of the process of life.
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Western non-specific clinical signs, internal organs, tissue lesions in direct response to the body surface, such as tendon reflexes and meningeal lesions, McNamara rebound tenderness with appendicitis and so on, so signs of clinical diagnostic specificity value. medicine based on look, smell, and asked, cutting to obtain the syndrome for the clinical diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine for almost all of Buffett the opposite sex. For example, fever, aversion to cold, fever, between the cold and heat, steam and hot steam, at Asr hot flashes, fever is not Yang, Jue Sheng Fu and true winter hot hot, really hot off the cold, etc.; Wiry main cold the main pain, the main drink, the main qi, the main liver wang, but should be in the spring and the liver of normal pulse; As for the look of form, but also need to participate in joint natural climate, geographical environment, psychological characteristics, physical characteristics, a sense of evil nature and evil is comprehensive analysis of complex forms of growth and decline. Thus, only in accordance with the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine under the basic principle of the repeated nature of the phenomenon to study the evolution of disease pathogenesis to seize the future, then with the pathogenesis of the syndrome was entirely appropriate have real clinical value. In other words, left to specific patients, and the motion of syndrome does not matter there, it does not matter-nothing; left the pathogenesis of specific changes in the patient's specific to talk about climate and the motion of argument, then no standards and the authenticity of all. So for the syndrome, not only response to the state level, the body, it must be dynamic. Western study of organs, tissues, because it constitutes the person as a component to study. So we lost the whole dynamic characteristics. According to Chinese medicine concept of disease, is a time when many of the different causal relationship between continuous and spatial interdependence of numerous interwoven infinite change constantly changing. So in disease diagnosis, hard to say which one diagnosis of a syndrome is a disease-specific indicators of change.
4. informational
response regardless of the state, or syndrome of the body, are not the organs, tissues, cells, molecules that contain the substances or energy itself, but the life of another material form of course. according to information theory on the information and material, the composition of energy in parallel the three components of the material world. It is . Accordingly, the overall level of response on the status of the body (or the said syndrome), is between man and society and the nature of information between. But Western medicine studied organ, tissue levels of certain phenomena, only can explain part or parts constitute the person's sense of function, but not the same as the overall level of information. Moreover, the
(b) the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine research methods
study reflects the essential nature of the discipline, research method is a tool for development of the discipline or motivation. a certain object of study, must select certain research methods. TCM selected research method has two main characteristics:
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the so-called comprehensive integrated, because the object of study involving Chinese biological, psychological, social, natural aspects, but also has integrity, non-specific, dynamic, information and other characteristics, which determined that Chinese medicine is not a general science. to the research methodology, both with regard to the social science research methods, but also the use of natural science research methods. Specifically, the direct use of philosophy methods at the same time, focusing on the use of a general scientific method, that is, systematic approach.
to the method, and according to the actual number of improvement were carried out, development and transformation. formed from the traditional theory of yin and yang theory of yin and yang but different from the traditional methodology system unique. In recent years a large number of studies have shown that Chinese medicine theory of yin and yang not only full of materialism and dialectics, but also include control theory, systems theory, information theory, fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy and other modern scientific methodology do not recognize the rational kernel. can be said that Chinese theory of yin and yang is a comprehensive summary nature, human society, the human brain the general laws of thinking of contemporary philosophical approach and include control theory, systems theory, information theory, including systems thinking methods and fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy recognition methods with the latest scientific methods of comprehensive rail. < br> 2.
reducing non-reducing method of study is divided into a number of things into parts, each part of the overall composition to research methods. This method in modern physics, chemistry, mathematics based on the results continue to progress, the development of human science has played a huge role, but overall in the study, information systems Shique look powerless. For example, as long as the master computer network system theory and operation, you can complete the information acquisition, transmission, processing, processing, and have the purpose of information control, which constitutes the material itself, the computer network system of physical and chemical properties does not change the essential nature of the information. As another example, for a social management systems, by collecting information from a particular aspect of society and its processing (discussion, research), and then create a control information (principles, policies, measures, methods, etc.) back to the community, will make the aspects of the work place ...