Summary of the Eight Principles in TCM: What Do Yin, Yang, Exterior, Interior, Cold, Heat, Deficiency, and Excess Mean?
The Eight Principles—Yin, Yang, Exterior, Interior, Cold, Heat, Deficiency, and Excess—are the most fundamental aspects of diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Through clinical practice and the application of the four diagnostic methods, we analyze and summarize the disease conditions according to the patterns of disease progression, categorizing the identified syndromes into eight types (the … Read more
