Development of TCM Science Depends on Re-understanding of relation between Diseases and Syndromes / 中医杂志

The present paper puts forward that the relationship between differentiation of syndromes and differentiation of diseases ought to be the relation between methods and results. Differentiation of syndromes must presuppose differentiation of diseases. Syndrome has own specificity only when existence of diseases. However, this disease is not the traditional "disease" named by symptoms, but must be a "new" disease with developing law, specific syndromes and syndromes of corresponding stages.