Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada.
School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021;1343:171-174. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80983-6_11.
Temperament or "hot and cold" theory is a common fundamental concept in folk and traditional medicines practiced worldwide which describes the individual differences in a spectrum along a so-called hotness-coldness axis. Unfortunately, this concept has been ignored by conventional medicine following the trends toward reductionism. Despite this, there are many recent studies in different fields as discussed in previous chapters, that are supporting the efficacy of this holistic personalized approach in health maintenance, disease prevention and treatment. Systems biology studies, innovative modified clinical trials and whole system research are among our tools to investigate the physiopathology and effectiveness of this concept in clinical practice and may pave our way toward personalized medicine in future.
气质或“寒热”理论是世界范围内民间和传统医学中常见的基本概念，它描述了个体沿着所谓的寒热轴的差异。不幸的是，随着还原论的趋势，这一概念被传统医学所忽视。尽管如此，正如前几章所讨论的，不同领域的许多最新研究都支持这种整体个性化方法在保持健康、预防和治疗疾病方面的有效性。系统生物学研究、创新的改良临床试验和整体系统研究是我们研究这一概念在临床实践中的病理生理学和有效性的工具，并可能为我们未来走向个性化医学铺平道路。
