How to grasp the rising and falling trend of qi,blood,yin and yang is the essence of thinking of syndrome differentiation and treatment.The theory of'correspondence between human body and natural environment'in traditional Chinese medicine preliminarily reveals the relationship between seasons and qi,blood,yin and yang of human.This paper explores the corresponding pathogenesis and treatment related to each earthly-branch from the perspective of the origin of the seasonal solar terms of the twelve earthly-branches,the five elements,and the yin and yang of the six meridians,which is used to guide the clinical syndrome differentiation and the screening and comparison of prescriptions in traditional Chinese medicine.This research is the development and reconstruction of the heavenly sterns and earthly branches-time medicine thinking model of traditional Chinese medicine.It is an innovation in the field of time-space syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine,and makes up for the deficiency of the doctrine of five evolutive phases and six climatic factors to a certain extent.
Time medicineDoctrine of five evolutive phases and six climatic factorsPathogenesisThree yin and three yangTherapeutic principle and method