Jiang Ting-Ting, Li Ji-Cheng
South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Zhejiang University Medical School, Hangzhou, China.
Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2023 Dec;306(12):2939-2944. doi: 10.1002/ar.24354. Epub 2020 Jan 7.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a systematic medical method that has existed for more than 3,000 years. Unlike Western medicine, the disease diagnosis in TCM is carried out by inspection, auscultation, olfaction, interrogation, and palpation. The patient is then treated according to the disease and corresponding TCM syndrome. However, the development of Chinese medicine is stagnated, partially because it can be influenced by subjective factors, such as the experience and knowledge of TCM practitioners, and there is a lack of relevant biological research on TCM syndromes. Yin-deficiency-heat (YDH) syndrome in TCM is characterized by a series of pathological changes caused by the insufficiency of Yin-fluid, inability to moisturize, and the failure to suppress Yang. In recent years, systems biology research on TCM syndromes has gradually become the focus of TCM research, including syndrome differentiation and functional research using systems biology methodologies such as proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics. This journal aims to publish a series of issues on the systems biology research of TCM syndromes that can provide biological indicators for the syndrome differentiation of YDH syndrome and can provide perspectives on the biological research of YDH syndrome.
中医是一种已经存在了3000多年的系统医学方法。与西医不同，中医通过望、闻、问、切来进行疾病诊断。然后根据疾病和相应的中医证候对患者进行治疗。然而，中医的发展停滞不前，部分原因是它可能受到主观因素的影响，如中医从业者的经验和知识，并且缺乏对中医证候的相关生物学研究。中医阴虚热证的特征是由阴液不足、无法滋润以及不能抑制阳气所引起的一系列病理变化。近年来，中医证候的系统生物学研究逐渐成为中医研究的焦点，包括使用蛋白质组学、转录组学和代谢组学等系统生物学方法进行证候鉴别和功能研究。本期刊旨在发表一系列关于中医证候系统生物学研究的文章，这些文章可为阴虚热证的证候鉴别提供生物学指标，并可为阴虚热证的生物学研究提供观点。
