The Merge of Western and Chinese Medicine

For thousands of years, the Chinese have been relying on herbs to eliminate illness while Western medicine had only existed for a mere several hundred years by the time it was introduced to China. Today, medicinal herbs and roots are widely used in the United States as well as across the world.

In many instances, herbalists that had spent a lifetime learning and using the materials that nature produced did not teach others their secrets, and died with those secrets.

Early herbalists kept very few books and formulae detailing their work. In comparison, the Western doctors taught their knowledge widely, spreading their expertise to anyone that held an interest. Generation after generation, they investigated a myriad of maladies. They then published their findings in hopes of finding cures.

After the free trade legislation in China, the government agreed to open their Chinese medicine to westerners, prompting the merger of two continent's medical sciences.

In the process of researching illnesses, Western medicine is becoming more and more interested in using Chinese herbs and procedures in its catalogue of treatments.

Since the alliance between Chinese and Western medicines, professionals from both sides have been able to learn more about their own fields as well as those from the other disciplines.

Not all illnesses should be treated alike. The combination of Chinese medicine with Western medicine can help manage more aspects of many illnesses than ever before. By understanding better both types of medicines, the healing result will be smoother and without many of the after-effects currently experienced.

Western medicine treats the current pain, the Chinese herbs work from within, changing the persons physical functions. For example, to treat an ulcer or tumor, Western medicine has a few answers, but to treat the source of the disorder, Chinese herbalists have had the answer for many years.

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