There is a cognitive difference between traditional Chinese medicine（TCM） "preventive treatment of disease"and modern preventive medicine. From the perspective of written form

TCM "preventive treatment of disease"and modern preventive medicine emphasize the early prevention and treatment of diseases. From a deeper level of cognition

both have significant differences in life culture

medical thinking characteristics

disease prevention techniques and so on. From the cultural cognition schema

the author analyzed the epistemological roots of the differences between the two medical concepts

aiming at exploring the characteristic advantages of TCM "preventive treatment of disease"

and by analyzing the similarities and differences between the two

to realize the complementary advantages of Chinese and western medicine in disease prevention

so that the two kinds of medicine can better serve the construction of a healthy China in the new era.