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Pattern versus disease zhèng yǔ bìng · 证与病

A Western diagnosis names a disease; a TCM pattern (证) names a configuration of signs in one person at one time. Two patients with the same disease may be given different patterns; one patient with different diseases may share a pattern.

This is why TCM and modern medicine are not simply rival answers to the same question. They are answering different questions with different instruments.

西医的诊断给出的是"病名";中医的"证"给出的是某个人在某一时刻的一组征象配置。同为一种病,两人可能辨为不同的证;不同的病,也可能共有同一个证。

这就是为什么中医与现代医学并不只是"对同一问题的两个竞争答案"——它们用不同的工具回答不同的问题。

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