The ancient Chinese people were able to reach a level of social stability that included the ability to treat disease of emotional, physical, and spiritual origins. Although a belief in spirits as the cause of disease has remained in China even to the present day, the view that the body obeyed a natural order struck a chord in the intellectual elite of ancient China. The Chinese do not think of theory, as we do in the West, as needing to be proven to reach the highest degree of truth. It is the method of breaking things into component parts to understand the whole. This method has been applied in China, but not to the same level as in the West.
Analysis is one of the important features of all western modern science and technology.
Analysis is not as important to Chinese medicine as in the West. The ancient Chinese did use analysis in their investigation of the human body, but to a lesser degree. Analysis provided some important insights into the workings of the human body. The origins of China's medical knowledge is not certain. They observed phenomenon, and identified relationships and patterns.