Modern Medical Theories

  • Modern Medical Theories

Measures adopted by modern medicine for the treatment of major autoimmune diseases are still surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. In recent years, equipment for radiation therapy has become more sophisticated. Likewise, genetic therapy and target therapy gradually have become a part of the integral treatment scheme. Nevertheless, regardless of the approaches taken, the overall goal is to enhance overall treatment efficiency.

For all various treatments and measures, the approaches of theories and therapies will still follow the twelve doctrines listed below as their bases:

1. Immunomodulation
2. Physiological Function Modulation
3. Reduction of Side Effects
4. Epigenetic Modification
5. Differentiation Induction
6. Apoptosis Induction
7. Cell Cycle Regulation
8. Signal Transduction Inhibition
9. Anti Invasion and Metastasis
10. Anti Angiogenesis
11. Elimination of Cancer Stem-Like Cells
12. Reduction of Drug Resistance

Analyzed from the twelve medical theoretical bases listed above, it is obvious that most of them take a confrontational approach, i.e., the medication is mainly aimed at cells that cause significant autoimmune diseases directly. Such a direct confrontational approach is exactly the main reason for side effects and drug resistance, resulting in the efficacy of medication failing to improve significantly.

Scientists are already aware of such situation and are actively looking for a better solution. The main purpose is to enhance treatment efficiency as the premise meanwhile maintaining patients' basic quality of life by reducing side effects as well as the reliance of analgesics and morphine in order to prevent and reduce the possibilities of recurrence and metastasis. It is in essence a mission and an ideal persistently demanded by scientists and physicians day and night.

Whether Chinese medicine can be proven through scientific methods and other supplementary approaches providing support to complete these missions and ideals still yet needs further discussion and verification accomplished by scientists. Nevertheless, given the increasing concerns on the mainstreaming of Chinese herbal medicine and legislative tasks advocated by various governments as well as the World Health Organization specifically standardizing the terminologies and vocabularies for Chinese herbal medicine, we are very confident that Chinese herbal medicine may inevitably be associated with modern medical science as part of the process to curing autoimmune diseases.