General information for TCM medicine, theory, and practice.
—Translated from a speech by Qide Han, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: “Is high blood pressure a disease?” “Does high blood pressure need treatment?” “If you have high blood pressure, do you treat it?” At the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of the China Association for Science and Technology, Qide …
Differences between Traditional Chinese medicine and Modern Western Medicine This is comprehensive review of the differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Modern Western Medicine (MWM). This review should help you understand TCM better and make informed decisions when it comes to medical care. In my opinion, Western medicine is the best option for quick …
As we said before, the TCM is a totally different system from modern Western Medicine (WM), especially with the disease categorization. Here’s a good example for the insomnia disease. Insomnia, in modern Western Medicine, is just one type of sleep disorder disease. However, in TCM, it can be divided into many different diseases and have …
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If you don’t know the TCM stands for Traditional Chinese Medicine, please read other articles first, to learn this very old but different system. Or, check out this research paper first: Open complex giant system and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Shuyun Wang et al., Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine. Vol. 1, No. 3 (2018) 193–197 Here, let’s …
Currently, everyone (every pharmaceutical company) follows the standard drug development process (methodology) as referred by FDA: The Drug Development Process | FDA drugs are developed according following 4 steps: Early Drug Discovery, Pre-Clinical Phase, Clinical Phases I, II, III Regulatory Approval. Let’s break down to more detailed steps: Research how the disease is developed and …
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TCM and modern medical science are totally different systems. To learn more about TCM system, we highly recommend you read this research article first: Open complex giant system and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Shuyun Wang et al., Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine. Vol. 1, No. 3 (2018) 193–197. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/epdf/10.1142/S2575900018300059 Traditional Chinese Medicine’s (TCM’s) categorization is totally different …
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The Zàng-Fǔ organs are functional entities stipulated by Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). They constitute the centrepiece of TCM’s general concept of how the human body works. The term zàng (脏) refers to the organs considered to be yin in nature – Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung, Kidney – while fǔ (腑) refers to the yang organs …
To explore advantages of Chinese medicine (CM) by analyzing differences in the origin of philosophy for human health between CM and Western medicine (WM). Methodologically, a distinctive feature of CM is its systems theory, which is also the difference between CM and WM. Since the birth of CM, it has taken the human body as …
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