In the internal medicine of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, there are some differences in the natural outlook of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, which are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
1.Philosophical concepts: Traditional Chinese medicine absorbs the philosophical ideas of Zhou Yi, Taoism, Confucianism, etc., and expounds the physiological and pathological phenomena and laws of human beings with the theory of vitality, yin and yang, and the theory of the five elements, and has the ideas of simple materialism and primitive dialectics. Western medicine, on the other hand, takes reductionism as the guiding ideology, understands human beings as assemblages, studies the human body with the principle of "combination-decomposition", and makes reductive explanations of problems, which is mechanical materialism.
2.Research Methods: Traditional Chinese medicine is mainly based on analogy and reasoning and deduction, relying on macroscopic dialectic, inductive analysis and reasoning to draw conclusions, which promotes the development of the holistic view of Chinese medicine, but sometimes it is too abstract and conceptual, which affects the deeper revelation of the essence of life phenomena and diseases. Western medicine uses modern scientific analytical and experimental methods to explore the phenomena of human life and diseases, and often decomposes complex biological phenomena into simple physical and chemical processes from the system, organ, tissue to cell and molecular level, and severs the connection between them.
3.Perspective and focus: Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes a holistic view, believing that the human body is an organic whole, and that the components that make up the body are structurally inseparable, functionally coordinated with each other, and pathologically influenced by each other. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the correspondence between nature and man, believing that man is a product of nature, in harmony with the environment, and emphasizes the unity of mind and spirit. In contrast, Western medicine focuses on physical and disease in the biomedical model, ignoring social and psychological factors.
The above are some of the differences between the natural view of Chinese and Western medicine in the internal medicine of integrated Chinese and Western medicine, which have led to the academic differences and their respective characteristics of Chinese and Western medicine. The goal of integrative medicine is to realize the diagnosis and integration of diseases through the comprehensive application of the theories and methods of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, so as to improve clinical efficacy and promote the health of patients.