What is dialectical treatment?

Syndrome differentiation and treatment is the thinking method and process of clinical diagnosis and treatment of diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. Syndrome is a summary of pathological reaction in a certain stage of disease development, including the location, etiology, nature and the relationship between evil and positive. Dialectics reflecting the essence of pathological changes at this stage is the process of understanding and identifying this syndrome. According to the data collected by the four diagnostic methods, the etiology, nature, location and the relationship between evil and positive are comprehensively identified, and finally it is judged as a syndrome of a certain nature, while the treatment is to determine the corresponding treatment method according to the result of syndrome differentiation, including the dialectical process in which the theory of traditional Chinese medicine runs through the practice of prevention and health preservation. Treatment is the basic principle of TCM in understanding and treating diseases, also known as syndrome differentiation and treatment.

The so-called "syndrome" is a pathological summary of the body at a certain stage in the process of disease development. Including the location, etiology, nature and the relationship between pathogenic factors and positive factors, can reflect the nature of lesions in a certain stage of disease development, so it can reveal the development process and essence of the disease more comprehensively, deeply and accurately than symptoms.

"Syndrome Differentiation" refers to the process of summarizing and judging the information, symptoms and signs collected by four diagnostic methods (looking, smelling, asking and pulse) as a syndrome of a certain nature by analyzing, synthesizing and distinguishing the etiology, nature, location and the relationship between evil and positive.

Treatment, also called treatment, is to determine the corresponding treatment principles and methods according to the results of dialectical analysis. Dialectics is the premise and basis of determining treatment. On therapeutic principle is a means and method to treat diseases. Therefore, the process of syndrome differentiation treatment is essentially the process of TCM understanding and treating diseases.