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| Network syndromology-A new approach to studying the syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine |
| Hits 1805 Download times 1784 Received:April 28, 2015 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2015.07.02 |
| Key Words
network syndromology;TCM syndrome;combination of disease and syndrome;intermingled phlegm and blood stasis syndrome |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | LI Zheng | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | ZHANG Yan | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | WANG Ying | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | YANG Kai-lun | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | GAO Shan | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | LI Lin | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | YU Chun-quan | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | ycq-4@163.com |
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| Abstract
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| Syndrome is essential to the accurate diagnosis and effective treatments in the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). However, it still remains a challenge in the modernization of TCM despite of the research efforts that were put in to study the underlying biological mechanisms of TCM syndrome. Therefore we propose in this paper the concept and technical road map of network syndromology to provide a novel framework and strategy for studying TCM syndrome. We first introduced the current status and future needs of TCM syndrome research. Then we discussed the background and technical elements of network syndromology. A case study of applying network syndromology in elucidating the syndrome of intermingled phlegm and blood stasis in coronary heart disease was illustrated as an example. |
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