Comparative Study on Pattern Discovery of Traditional Chinese Medicine Common Syndrome Elements

Syndrome elements are the smallest units of syndrome classification and the basic elements of syndrome differentiation. Introduction of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome elements can increase the accuracy of the treatment after syndrome differentiation, and this is conducive to standardization of the study of TCM syndrome. The standardization has significant significance for the TCM syndrome differentiation. This paper presents a method of pattern discovery on TCM syndrome elements, on the basis of the principle of inquiring diagnosis in TCM. The clinical results are very similar with the research results of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program). The results suggest that the method based on inquiring diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine can be used as the syndrome elements pattern discovery methods for different diseases, and syndrome elements patterns have certain rules from health to disease of human populations.