[On the Development Direction of Integrating Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine].

The integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and Western medicine (WM) has obvious advantages. However, basic theories of CM and WM are hard to integrate at the present stage due to radical difference in world view and methodology between them. CM and WM share the same objective, i.e., saving life and treating disease, so they can be integrated technologically. And only in this way can focus the integration of CM and WM on solving practical problems and obtaining clinical efficacy. The integration in this way is firmly and valuable.