Working people in China have accumulated rich medical knowledge through practice and continuous understanding in the process of fighting diseases for thousands of years. The earliest known herbal work is called Shennong's Herbal Classic.
Li Shizhen, a great medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, compiled a masterpiece of materia medica, Compendium of Materia Medica, which adapted to the development of the times, and included 1892 kinds of drugs and more than1000 prescriptions.
Western medicine, as opposed to traditional Chinese medicine, refers to drugs used in modern medicine, which are generally made by chemical synthesis or extracted from natural products. Western medicine is organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals and biological products. Dosage is more accurate than traditional Chinese medicine, usually in milligrams.
The difference between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine;
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) looks at problems from a macro perspective, and regards people as an organic whole, and all parts of the body interact with each other. Traditional Chinese medicine has macroscopic accuracy and lacks microscopic accuracy; Western medicine pharmacy, on the other hand, looks at the problem from a microscopic point of view and adopts an analytical method. Instead of treating people as adults, it treats people as a combination of parts, with microscopic accuracy, but without macroscopic accuracy.
To put it simply, western medicine is mostly a single component of chemical synthesis, with the purpose of repairing diseased organs. It introduces "confrontation" against "disease". Traditional Chinese medicine is a compound composed of natural plants, animals and minerals. According to certain principles, it is mostly to restore the imbalance between human body and environment or human organs. Is to introduce the "certificate" into adjustment. In a word, western medicine mainly aims at eliminating "lesions", while Chinese medicine aims at adjusting human body functions and achieving the goal of "keeping Yin and Yang in peace". The essential difference between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine still stems from different understandings of human health and diseases.
Finally, I want to say that the medical heritage accumulated by the ancient working people in China through long-term practice is extremely rich and precious. Traditional Chinese medicine should not be despised, but should be carried forward for the benefit of mankind.