Fundamentals of TCM Diagnosis and Patterns
According to TCM theory, the elements of a “pattern” (zheng) include clinical manifestations (symptoms, signs, or primarysyndromes, secondarysyndromes) and pathogenesis (etiology, location, nature, severity, or primary pathogenesis, secondary pathogenesis). In a broad sense, a pattern includes syndromes, pattern elements, and pattern names.Symptoms + Signs = Syndromes.Based on syndromes, the pattern elements are deduced from the … Read more
