The term "TCM" is interpreted as "China's inherent medicine" in Modern Chinese Dictionary, which corresponds to "Western medicine".
"Western medicine" means "medicine introduced to China from Europe and America".
There are 34 kinds of western medicine books (translations) listed in the General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu Physicians and Their Continued Editions.
Tang Zonghai wrote "Four Kinds of Chinese and Foreign Medical Books: Self-Reports of Chinese and Western Medicine": "With medical theory, people are also the same. Western medicine also has its own advantages, but Chinese medicine is not short and not comprehensive enough to cover the beginning of western medicine; Chinese medicine is wrong and the rate is wrong. " Therefore, the terms Chinese medicine and western medicine have been basically defined, and there is a gap between them.
The word "China medicine" may have appeared in 183 1 earlier. Japanese Duojiyuan collected more than 3,000 kinds of ancient and modern medical books, which were sorted into nine categories, including medical classics, Tibetan images, diagnosis methods, materia medica and prescriptions, and was nominated as "China Medical Book Examination". 1926, Xie Guan and others compiled a Dictionary of China Medicine, entitled China Medicine, which explained the terms of ancient medical books.
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