Western Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Integration

What cause diseases?

In Western medicine, germs and viruses are the primary causes.

In Chinese medicine, the causes are divided into 3 categories:
1st: External causes, namely wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire.
2nd: Internal causes, namely the 7 emotions, joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, shock.
3rd: fatigue and foods.

Traditional Chinese medicine has grown out of common human experience of over 2,000 years. The concept of germs and viruses are not used at all. Instead, the main focus is on other factors familiar in human experience.

We are faced with 2 very different approaches to diseases and healing!

I am writing this to demonstrate that human thinking and experience could be as diverse as East and West. The twine never meet as they started from completely different starting points.

So are religious ideologies. They would never meet.

But today, Western medicine and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) are sometimes used together for some illnesses. Trying hard to integrate, right?

So too are religious ideologies - there are people who try to integrate them. Trying very hard!