Key of TCM syndrome differentiation thinking:syndrome differentiation of xiang and symptom
- VernacularTitle:象症辨证是中医辨证思维的关键
- Author:
Yanhui WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Treatment based on syndrome differentiation;
Xiang;
Syndrome differentiation based on xiang and symptom;
Concrete thinking;
Logical thinking
- From:
China Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy
2005;0(10):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The quality of thinking of TCM syndrome differentiation is the imagery thinking, which is dominanted by Concrete thinking and supplemented by logical thinking. Syndrome is a kind of cognition about condition of the whole life from the aspect of system function, i.e. xiang of life. Tongue demonstration, pulse tracings and so on, they are the epitome of the whole life condition and syndrome, not just the symptom. Every prescription has the only xiang, so does every Chinese traditional medicine. The thought process of determination of treatment based on differentiation of symptoms and signs and principle-method-recipe-medicines is the process of diagnosis xiang based on xiang, treating xiang based on xiang. In exopathic disease, there is disease at fi rst, then the symptoms, and then the corresponding xiang, and the syndrome differentiation can be carried. So, syndrome differentiation bases on disease and the main symptomes. In internal damage diseases, the xiang and syndromes appear before the disease and symptoms. Therefore the thought of TCM syndrome differentiation ought to adopt the imagery thinking, which is dominanted by Concrete thinking and supplemented by logic thinking, and differentiating syndrome based on xiang and symptoms.
