Chinese and western medicine should be avoided in diet

The 2018-05-18 health

A competent doctor should not only prescribe medicine for patients, but also pay attention to health education in the process of diagnosis and treatment, especially explain clearly to patients when to take medicine, before, during or after meals, which foods or fruits and vegetables should be encouraged to eat more, and which foods should not be eaten or eaten less, because these will directly affect the curative effect of treatment.

When talking with patients, the author found that for the same patient and the same disease, the dietary guidance of Chinese and western medicine for patients was quite different or even completely opposite, which often made patients at a loss. Why are Chinese and western medicine so different? Which is the right one? This problem needs to be looked at dialectically. Here, the author intends to combine the formation and characteristics of the diagnosis and treatment system of Chinese and western medicine to briefly elaborate.

As a popular saying goes, "traditional Chinese medicine treats people, and western medicine treats patients. Western medicine is a science based on molecular, cellular, physiological, biochemical, pharmacological and other morphological experiments, so its diagnosis of diseases is generally very specific, and the etiology and related factors are generally studied in depth and detail. For example, coronary heart disease is the stenosis, occlusion or spasmodic disease of the coronary artery itself. It is usually diagnosed by coronary angiography. The cause is no more than smoking, drinking, inactivity, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and so on. Therefore, doctors will ask patients to give up smoking and limit alcohol, eat a low-salt, low-fat and low-sugar diet, and eat more fruits with high potassium, magnesium and calcium. To obese person, strengthen motion even, control weight to wait. For another example, diabetic patients are required to "take care of their mouth and move their legs", maintain adequate physical activity every day, eat not too much at each meal, and strictly limit the intake of high-fat and high-sugar foods. This is not just for one patient, but for almost all those with the disease and for long term.

Traditional Chinese medicine is a typical empirical medicine, which adopts dialectical thinking and mainly discusses or speculates the nature of diseases through physical phenomena. Look, smell, ask, cut is its main diagnosis and treatment means, diagnosis must see the patient himself. According to the principle of "cold is hot, hot is cold", the prescription of medicine is finally selected. In the same way, the dietary indisposition proposed by Chinese medicine to patients is also based on the principle of "cold is hot, hot is cold". For example, for a patient with cold-dampness block, doctors generally require him to drink less water, avoid cold drinks and cold fruits such as pears and mangoes. It is worth mentioning that TCM does not regard patient - related examination data as indispensable. That is to say, no matter this patient is common cold, coronary heart disease, or advanced cancer, every occurrence of this syndrome, it is recommended to follow such diet should not. Of course, the dietary advice of traditional Chinese medicine is limited to the stage of "having this certificate" and is not permanent. Because the patient's syndrome type has been in the dynamic change all the time, some can last for days, while some can only last for hours, so strictly speaking, under the condition of not seeing the patient, the traditional Chinese medicine usually will not open the medicine, and the medicine is rarely prescribed for more than one week or ten days at a time.

From this point of view, it is not objective to judge which is better and which is worse in the diet of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine simply, because both of them have certain truth, just look at problems from different perspectives. Traditional Chinese medicine should not beat western medicine to death when facing the doubts of patients, but should give objective evaluation on the basis of fully understanding the diet of western medicine, believing that this will be of great significance to the implementation of health education and to bridge the gap between doctors and patients.