On Evidence-based Research in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Relationship Between Disease and Syndrome
GUO Yiwen
FU Guangwei
SANG Xisheng
Abstract：Evidence-based medicine is the main paradigm of contemporary medicine."Syndrome differentiation and treatment"as a distinctive feature of traditional Chinese medicine has long been regarded as the convergence point for the evidence-based transformation of traditional Chinese medicine.However,the"syndrome"in"syndrome differentiation and treatment"is not the"evidence"emphasized by evidence-based medicine.Therefore,traditional Chinese medicine should re-examine its own characteristics and explore the possibility of compatibility with evidence-based medicine under the identity of"disease-oriented".The idea of"disease-oriented"requires the traditional Chinese medicine community to undergo self-transformation in two aspects to adapt to the requirements of evidence-based medicine:one is to reconstruct the classification of traditional Chinese medicine diseases to lay the foundation for evidence-based research in traditional Chinese medicine;the other is to combine the theory of traditional Chinese medicine pathogenesis with the methodology of linguistics under the guidance of structuralist linguistics.
Keywords：combination of disease and syndromeevidence-based medicinesyndrome differentiation and treatmentdisease-orientedmodernization of traditional Chinese medicine
Publication Date：2025-07-05
Online Publishing Date：2026-05-22(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 740-743,759 )