Review on the Differentiation of Cold and Heat Syndrome
Syndrome differentiation of cold and heat is an important part of the eight-line syndrome differentiation.This study summarized the related theories,syndromes and constitutions of cold and heat,as well as the basic and clinical re-search of cold and heat syndrome differentiation,and explored the new direction of cold and heat syndrome differentia-tion.The results show that the theoretical research of cold and heat focuses on the meaning of cold and heat(the origi-nal meaning and characteristics of cold and heat).There are abundant researches on cold and heat syndrome from the perspective of four diagnoses,and relatively few literatures from the perspective of tongue and pulse alone.Both cold and heat constitution and cold and heat syndrome are judged by four diagnostic methods,but some of the syndromes of the two are similar and the diagnosis is vague,so it is necessary to further clarify the meaning of traditional Chinese medicine constitution and disease diagnosis.Cold and heat,which belong to image thinking,cannot be quantified and ob-jectified by detection index.Accurate differentiation of cold and heat is the basis and premise of curative effect.The present research results provide a reference for the follow-up research direction.It is a new research perspective to ex-plore the cognitive characteristics and neural mechanism of cold-heat dialectical thinking,and to combine cold-heat dia-lectical thinking with cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
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