
Modern medicine should focus on the symptoms of patients and carry out comprehensive treatment with integrative medicine
PAN Weidong
Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation ›› 2019, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (1) : 9-14.
Modern medicine should focus on the symptoms of patients and carry out comprehensive treatment with integrative medicine
Although there are some shortcomings in both modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, the rightness of medicine should not be judged solely by modern scientific theory. No matter which theoretical system is based on, as long as the pathogenesis can be explained with the theory that patients can understand and accept, the “pain” of patients can be relieved, and the life span of patients with high quality of life can be prolonged, it is good medicine. Nowadays, western medicine has begun to introduce various kinds of traditional medicine, including traditional Chinese medicine, to treat various chronic diseases and emotional disorders. The author advocates that modern medicine should focus on patients’ symptoms and carry out comprehensive treatment with integrative medicine (combined with drug therapy, psychotherapy, emotional therapy and other therapies) to better relieve patients’ pain and establish a perfect integrative medicine system.
Symptom / Focus on the symptoms / Integration of traditional and western medicine / Multimodality therapy
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