Not irreplaceable And "a good practitioner of Chinese medicine isn't much concerned about there being one less or one more medicine," Huang Ming-ten explains. The concepts behind Chinese medicine are very different from those of Western medicine, and for two people with the same ailment, doctors of Chinese medicine often prescribe different medicines.
何況「一個好的中醫師，其實不在乎多一種藥材、少一種藥材」，黃明德解釋，中醫治病觀念與西醫不同，不是每個人患同一種病，都給同一種藥。