The diagnosis in TCM and Western Medicine

The diagnosis in TCM and Western Medicine

In TCM, we divide human body 5 internal organs into 3 parts, there are Heart and Lung in upper jiao, there are Liver and Spleen in middle jiao and there are kidneys in lower jiao.
Simply said,  in TCM, the doctor through Looking, Smelling, Asking and Palpation to diagnosis the excess/deficiency of internal organs’ Qi, Blood. Yin and Yang to make out what pattern it is, then decide treatment proposal.
For example the heart has the patterns of excess/deficiency of Qi, Blood, Yin and Yang.
Such as: heart Qi deficiency, blood deficiency, yin or yang deficiency patterns, and heart is fire in 5 elements, so we have heart fire(yang) excess pattern, and behind heart is small intestine, the heart fire can transfer to small intestine became small intestine heat excess. And heart also has relationship with lung, spleen, liver and kidney, and behind lung there is large intestine, behind spleen there is stomach, behind liver there is gallbladder, behind kidney there is urine-bladder.  Different orders of internal organs put together, could make out hundred or thousand of different patterns and accompanied patterns. These are all basic on  thousand years experience generations by generations.

In western medicine, the doctor through looking, smelling, knocking and palpation the patient’s sick area with lab test and photos such as x ray, MRI scan etc. to make out what kinds of disease the patient has, then decide use what kind of medicine to cure the patient, this all basic on scientist data.

Today, West meet East, the “experience” meet “data” is a very interested thing.