Chen Jia-Xu, Xue Fei-Fei
Department of Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Xue Bao. 2005 Sep;3(5):342-6. doi: 10.3736/jcim20050502.
The suggestion of microcosmic syndrome differentiation is to meet the needs of clinical diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the needs of evidence based medicine and the needs of the development of syndrome differentiation in TCM. The possibility of microcosmic syndrome differentiation might be the development of integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine as well as modern science and technology. Microcosmic syndrome differentiation has its superiority and limitation. There are some problems in developing microcosmic syndrome differentiation, such as lack of standard for syndrome differentiation, contradiction between single microcosmic index and the entirety, non-specificity of the relationship between microcosmic indexes and syndromes, and the influence of disease on microcosmic syndrome differentiation, discrepancy between the essence study of TCM syndromes and the clinical practice. It is suggested that the concept of TCM syndrome is a certain pathological process during the onset and development of disease, composed of some subjective and objective indexes. The objective indexes include the macrocosmic and the microcosmic indexes, the entirety and the part.
微观辨证的提出是为了满足中医临床诊疗的需要、循证医学的需要以及中医辨证发展的需要。微观辨证的可能性或许是中西医结合以及现代科学技术融合发展的体现。微观辨证有其优势与局限。在微观辨证的发展过程中存在一些问题,比如辨证标准缺失、单一微观指标与整体的矛盾、微观指标与证型关系的非特异性、疾病对微观辨证的影响、中医证型本质研究与临床实践的脱节。中医证型的概念是疾病发生发展过程中的某一病理过程,由一些主观和客观指标构成。客观指标包括宏观和微观指标、整体和局部指标。