What diseases can Chinese medicine cure? The complementary advantages of traditional Chinese and Western medicine are beneficial to treatment

In life, some people always like to use Western medicine to treat a certain disease because it works quickly. In fact, the treatment effect of traditional Chinese medicine is also good, but the process is relatively long. Traditional Chinese medicine has strong advantages in adjusting sub-health and preventing diseases. It has unique advantages in the fields of common diseases, chronic diseases, geriatric diseases, difficult diseases, and preventing diseases, such as acupuncture, scraping, massage, chiropractic, diet therapy, medicated food, Tai Chi, Five Animal Exercises, Qigong, psychological meditation and other treatment and health-preserving methods.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine has advantages in sub-health and preventing diseases

Traditional Chinese medicine has strong advantages in adjusting sub-health and preventing diseases. It has unique advantages in the fields of common diseases, chronic diseases, geriatric diseases, difficult diseases, and preventing diseases, such as acupuncture, scraping, massage, chiropractic, diet therapy, medicated food, Tai Chi, Five Animal Exercises, Qigong, psychological meditation and other treatment and health-preserving methods.

Western medicine currently has no good treatment or efficacy, but Chinese medicine is good at treating the following diseases: functional gastrointestinal diseases such as reflux esophagitis, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, chronic enteritis and other digestive system diseases; functional diseases such as cardiac neurosis; viral infectious diseases such as influenza, herpes zoster, chronic hepatitis, etc. These are all diseases that have recurred with Western medicine treatment, but Chinese medicine has been clinically proven to be effective. In addition, among rheumatic immune system diseases, such as rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, allergic purpura, Behcet's disease, etc., Chinese medicine has outstanding therapeutic effects in improving symptoms, relieving pain, and inhibiting immune responses.

Diseases that can be treated by Western medicine but may cause drug toxic side effects or iatrogenic diseases, while diseases that can be treated by TCM but do not have the above disadvantages include: nephrotic nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and rheumatic autoimmune diseases. Treatment with hormones and immunosuppressants may cause toxic side effects, while TCM treatment has a certain effect and avoids drug-induced side effects and hormone rebound.

Diseases that cannot be clearly examined or diagnosed, and for which TCM can show a beneficial effect in certain aspects or links, include: some difficult and complicated diseases and malignant tumors treated with the combination of Chinese and Western medicine, which can complement each other's advantages; patients who need surgical treatment can receive combined treatment of Chinese and Western medicine before and after surgery; fever for undiagnosed diseases, which often rebound after Western medicine is used to reduce fever, can be cured fundamentally with TCM treatment. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine can fully intervene in the auxiliary treatment of critical diseases.

It is worth mentioning that acupuncture has advantages in treating neurological diseases. In addition, Chinese medicine also excels in areas such as menstrual disorders, infertility, breast diseases and other gynecological diseases, and is also effective in treating common dermatological diseases (eczema, acne). The effectiveness of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in treating modern civilization diseases such as obesity, insulin resistance, and depression is outstanding.

2. The complementary advantages of traditional Chinese and Western medicine are beneficial to treatment

Western medicine has obvious advantages in emergency treatment and surgical intervention for critical and severe illnesses, which are beyond the reach of traditional Chinese medicine. Moreover, today's modern advanced equipment and technology are also the result of the development of Western science and medicine, bringing many conveniences to disease diagnosis. But Chinese medicine has advantages that Western medicine does not have. Traditional Chinese Medicine is a "balanced therapy", i.e. "strengthening the body's strength and eliminating evil, balancing yin and yang". Its treatment has the advantages of being macroscopic, flexible, spatiotemporal, multi-target, and individualized. Western medicine, on the other hand, is a "symptomatic and antagonistic treatment" with the characteristics of being microscopic, mechanical, local, single-target, and universal. Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on the pathogenesis of the disease, while Western medicine focuses on pathology. The two types of medicine have very different perspectives on the treatment of the same disease. Therefore, in the face of complex and ever-changing disease processes, if we possess and master the advantages and strengths of both types of medicine, it will bring greater benefits to treatment.

The combination and complementarity of Chinese and Western medicine is actually a process of "integrative medicine". The two must complement each other's strengths, learn from each other's strengths and overcome each other's weaknesses, make rational use of medical resources, and ultimately comprehensively and scientifically improve the efficacy of treating diseases.