On the methodology for integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine

中医学与现代西医学尽管体系各异,但各有优胜之处,它们是互补的,结合在一起能促进医学的发展.40多年来,中西医结合取得了许多重大的成果,促进了我国医学的发展.这些成果的取得,如果用方法论来概括,关键在于中西医结合有效地把现代医学的研究方法,即分析与综合相结合的方法引入了中医理法方药的研究.Traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine have their distinctive superiorities, and are mutually complementary in spite of their different systems of theory. The integration of traditional Chinese medicine and modern Western medicine can promote the development of medical science. Over the past 40 years, a number of great achievements have been made in the field of the integration, promoting the development of medicine in China. To sum up in respect of methodology, these achievements are obtained by application of combined analytical and synthetical methods of modern medicine to the research of basic principles, therapeutic methods, prescription and medication of traditional Chinese medicine.PubMed013-5