Bian Ling-Jie, Liu Zhi-Guo, Li Guang-Xi
Department of Respiratory, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100053, China.
Chin J Integr Med. 2015 Aug;21(8):563-8. doi: 10.1007/s11655-015-2100-y. Epub 2015 Jul 31.
Chinese medicine is a healing medicine which respect the power of human body itself. The essentials of Chinese medicine is promoting health wellness instead of disease management. Modern medicine just realized the limits of its theory. P4 medicine (personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory/precision) similar to Chinese medicine theory is beginning to representing the pioneer in the Western world. In this review, we summarized different domains of Chinese medicine. Based on the basic of promoting health wellness, we compared the fundamental theory of Chinese medicine to the new merging P4 medicine idea of Western medicine. We also discussed the potential for using modern computational medicine technique to integrate Chinese medicine theory and Western medicine theory.
中医是一种尊重人体自身力量的治疗医学。中医的要点在于促进健康,而非疾病管理。现代医学刚刚意识到其理论的局限性。与中医理论相似的4P医学(个性化、预测性、预防性和参与性/精准性)正开始代表西方世界的前沿。在本综述中,我们总结了中医的不同领域。基于促进健康的基础,我们将中医的基本理论与西医新出现的4P医学理念进行了比较。我们还讨论了使用现代计算医学技术整合中医理论和西医理论的潜力。