"Chinese medicine uses the four diagnostic methods—observation, listening and smelling, inquiry, and palpation—to detect subtle imbalances and predict the root of an illness ahead of time. Western medicine, on the other hand, often has to wait until that balance completely collapses and causes tangible organ damage. Only then can they find the problem and use surgery to fix it."
"There's a long process between the initial disruption of balance and the eventual irreversible, physical damage. The goal of Chinese medicine is to intercept this process upstream. This is what we call 'treating a disease before it arises.'"
