A Comparison Between Chinese and Western Medicine

Mordern medical science is highly analytical and reducing the body to its component parts,it devises appropriate therapy based on experimental studies of bacteriology,physiology,and pharmacology along with clinical reseach.Practitioners of modern medicine concentrate on identifying the disease by isolating it to a single cause,then healing that specific area of the body .The drugs used in treatment are composed of synthetic and chemical substances and surgery is employed as a principle tool.Moreover,medicines are prescribed without consideration of the patient's constitution and life style,or of environmental factors such as climate.Chisee medicine in contrast is interweined with philosophical and metaphysical view of life based on comprehensive whole body treatment .The Chinese physician does not need to know the name of the illness in modern medical terms.Rahter ,he pays special attention to the patient's subjective complaints or conformation and prescibes a holistic treatment on a subjecitive basisi.In short ,while modern medicine relies on accurate diagnosise by naming the disease and its causes ,Chinese medicine stresses the patient's reactions and apming the disease and its causes.