Eight-Principle Syndrome Differentiation-八纲辨证

The eight principles refer to the guiding principles of the exterior, interior, cold, heat, deficiency, yin and yang syndromes.

The eight principles are a general guidline abstracted from those individual characters of every specific syndrome. Exterior and interior are the basic principles guiding to detect the site of a disease. Cold, heat, deficiency and excess are the basic principles guiding to detect the nature of a disease. While yin and yang, which tell the category of a disease, serve as the general principle among the eight principles and generalize the other six principles, which are exterior, interior, cold, heat, deficiency and excess. The eight-principle syndrome differentiation can guide the treatment by helping grasp the fundamental features, determine the category and predict the tendency of a disease. Therefore, it is a syndrome differentiation method used to analyze the commoness of all kinds of disease. It is also the basis of other syndrome differentiating methods and plays a guiding role during diagnostic process.



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