The two systems of traditional and Western medicine need not clash.

传统医学与西方医学这两套体系并不冲突。

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Pharmaceutical companies are interested in traditional Chinese medicine but take a typically Western approach - trying to identify the active ingredients of traditional herbal treatments.

制药商对传统中医药感兴趣，但是它们采取的是典型的西方方法——试图发现传统草药制剂的有效成分。

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Unlike Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine partly relays on experience rather than on a complete and highly logical theory.

中医可能不像西医那样有完整的、逻辑性很强的理论，有些方面要凭经验。

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Many people practise customary law alongside the Western kind and take traditional as well as Western medicine.

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But Western medicine doctors in China often look down on colleagues who practice traditional Chinese medicine, scoffing that it lacks scientific grounding, even if its precepts have been accepted by billions of people for thousands of years.

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Many doctors, both Western and traditional, feel that "integrated" medicine - a blend of the modern and the ancient - could be the therapy of the future.

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