Review Article
The Relationship between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Medicine
Table 3
Advances in traditional Chinese medicine that are ahead of modern medicine.
| Traditional Chinese medicine (thousands of years ago) | Modern medicine (recent decades) |
| The integration of life knowledge/experience with traditional Chinese medicine | Ranging from primary studies of a single gene or protein to current use of genomics, proteomics and informatics |
| Emotional pathopoiesis and its correspondence between man and his environment | Gradual recognition of psychological factors and its relationship with physiology and pathology. |
| Syndrome differentiation, abidance by the triple pathogens and physique theory | Establishment of individual treatment |
| Chinese compound (multitarget herbal treatment) | From primary single target drugs to multitarget drugs, significantly reduce the side effects of medical treatment. |
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