M2: Definition of Chronic Disease Is Still Fuzzy

M2: Definition of Chronic Disease Is Still Fuzzy

So many horrible stories, whether Western medicine obviously reduces sales?

No! In the hospital, there are still lots of crowded people who need to be treated and take medicines.

Because quickly relieve the pain and fear of illness, Western medical science and technology are still irreplaceable ...

Western medicine shows his advantage in the medical market, and the medical market determines the prosperity of Western medicine ......

Then, where is the advantage of herbs? This is a difficult question!

Just like asking a master shot "can you hit it?" Then, he must ask back "where is the target?"

So, where is the advantage of herbs? We must ask back. For the herb, what ill is its target?

For western medicine, the definition of chronic disease is still fuzzy.

These are Professor Ye Jinying's viewpoint taken from the "chronic disease control" website.

Chronic Disease Control

Definition of Chronic Disease

A disease state is maintained for a long time or that exposed a long time before onset. US National Center for Health Statistics makes the definition that disease continues a period of three months or more longer, then it belongs to chronic disease.

Characteristics of Chronic Diseases

Characteristics of chronic diseases:

Having one or more of the following characteristics of disorder or disease damage

• 1. forever

  2. disability legacy

  3. cause pathological changes cannot be restored

  4. patients need special training in rehabilitation

  5. may require long-term care, observation or convalescence

  6. with avoidable factors related to behavior

This is the viewpoint of chronic disease from "non-infectious disease Wise Tank Wikipedia". 

chronic disease from "non-infectious disease Wise Tank Wikipedia"

Chronic Disease is also called Noninfectious Chronic Disease (NCDs). It refers to the long-term, cannot be healed, and almost cannot be cured of the disease. It mainly refers to those incidence, morbidity, mortality and higher medical costs expensive, and there are a clear preventive measures of the disease.

This is Ms. Hu's etc. viewpoint cited from US Chronic Committee, 1987. There is almost the same opinion as professor Yeh mentioned above.

The Definition of Chronic Disease from Ms. Hu's etc.

The Definition of Chronic Disease from Ms. Hu's etc.

These scholars did not still make a clear definition of "chronic disease". How about Chinese medicine? 

Let's keep on studying...

M1: Frightening and Shocking Medical Reports《The previous chapter 

 The Next Chapter》M3: "Treatment Determination Based on Syndrome Differentiation" IS Difficult to Comprehensive.