Analysis of the Thinking Steps of TCM Image Thinking
LIU Jiao-ping
YUAN Chang-jing
CAO Ji-gang
ZOU Xiao-juan
LU Wei
LIU Li
Abstract：Xiang thinking is the original thinking of Chinese traditional culture,which plays an important role in the formation and development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).The author summarized the connotation of xiang thinking as follows:xiang thinking is the thinking method of analyzing the relationship between things or recognizing the unknown things,which is built on the basis of acquiring the object and image of nature,taking the" xiang" into analogy,then set up the xiang model,which deeply inspired by academician WAMT Yong-yan and combined with the author's understanding of xiang thinking.The specific thinking steps include:xiang abstracting from viewing,comparative state,setup or use xiang model,xiang for expression.
Keywords：Xiang thinkingTraditional chinese medicineThinking steps
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 1497-1498,1535 )