TY - JOUR
T1 - Syndrome differentiation in modern research of traditional Chinese medicine
AU - Jiang, Miao
AU - Lu, Cheng
AU - Zhang, Chi
AU - Yang, Jing
AU - Tan, Yong
AU - LYU, Aiping
AU - Chan, Kelvin
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported jointly by the National Eleventh Five-Year Support Project of China ( 2006BAI04A10 ), National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30825047 and 30902003 ), and MOST Innovation Project (No. 2008IM020900 ).
PY - 2012/4/10
Y1 - 2012/4/10
N2 - Syndrome differentiation (Bian Zheng) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the comprehensive analysis of clinical information gained by the four main diagnostic TCM procedures: observation, listening, questioning, and pulse analysis, and it is used to guide the choice of treatment either by acupuncture and/or TCM herbal formulae, that is, Fufang. TCM syndrome differentiation can be used for further stratification of the patients' conditions with certain disease, identified by orthodox medical diagnosis, which could help the improvement of efficacy of the selected intervention. In modern TCM research it is possible to integrate syndrome differentiation with orthodox medical diagnosis leading to new scientific findings in overall medical diagnosis and treatment. In this review, the focus is to screen published evidence on the role of syndrome differentiation in modern TCM research with particular emphasis on basic and clinical research as well as, pharmacological evaluation of TCM herbal formulary for drug discovery.
AB - Syndrome differentiation (Bian Zheng) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the comprehensive analysis of clinical information gained by the four main diagnostic TCM procedures: observation, listening, questioning, and pulse analysis, and it is used to guide the choice of treatment either by acupuncture and/or TCM herbal formulae, that is, Fufang. TCM syndrome differentiation can be used for further stratification of the patients' conditions with certain disease, identified by orthodox medical diagnosis, which could help the improvement of efficacy of the selected intervention. In modern TCM research it is possible to integrate syndrome differentiation with orthodox medical diagnosis leading to new scientific findings in overall medical diagnosis and treatment. In this review, the focus is to screen published evidence on the role of syndrome differentiation in modern TCM research with particular emphasis on basic and clinical research as well as, pharmacological evaluation of TCM herbal formulary for drug discovery.
KW - Syndrome differentiation
KW - Traditional Chinese medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862778058&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jep.2012.01.033
DO - 10.1016/j.jep.2012.01.033
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84862778058
SN - 0378-8741
VL - 140
SP - 634
EP - 642
JO - Journal of Ethnopharmacology
JF - Journal of Ethnopharmacology
IS - 3
ER -