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Review on Current Situations of TCM Syndrome Study
| Mei-Jing Kou1,2, Xiao-Juan Zou1 and Jia-Xu Chen1-3* | |
| 1School of Pre-clinical Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430061, China | |
| 2School of Pre-clinical Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China | |
| 3Department of Basic Theory in Chinese Medicine, Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450008, China | |
| Corresponding Author : | Dr. Chen Jia-Xu School of Pre-clinical Medicine Beijing University of Chinese Medicine P.O. Box 83, No. 11, Beisanhuan Donglu Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, P.R. China Tel: 86-10-64286656 Fax: 86-10-64286656 E-mail: chenjx@bucm.edu.cn |
| Received May 02, 2013; Accepted May 22, 2013; Published May 30, 2013 | |
| Citation: Kou MJ, Zou XJ, Chen JX (2013) Review on Current Situations of TCM Syndrome Study. J Homeop Ayurv Med 2:122. doi: 10.4172/2167-1206.1000122 | |
| Copyright: © 2013 Kou MJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
The concept of “syndrome” is the core of TCM basic theory. This article reviews in terms of the concept and standardization of “syndrome” as well as syndrome differentiation methods. We lay special stress on expounding “syndrome” concept, standardization for diagnosing syndromes, its biological basis, and combination of macro syndrome differentiation with micro syndrome differentiation. Many experts have put a lot of energy to do research work, and made some achievements in above fields. But so far, the existing standardization of the syndrome has not yet been united, so there are still many problems to be solved about the specification of the syndrome. The authors also consider that we should pay attention to the study of biological basis of TCM syndrome in application of “omics” methods in the future.
