Clinical study by way of Combining Diseases with Differentiation of their syndromes, An Important Mode in Study on Combination of Chinese Traditional and Western Medicine
病证结合的临床研究是中西医结合研究的重要模式

This article shows with specific cases that the mode of clinical diagnosis, treatment and study of diseases, which combines the diagnosis in Western medicine and the differentiation of syndromes in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), is an important one of clinical study in the combination of Chinese traditional and Western medicine. The authors of this article hold that such a mode is an inevitable outcome of the development of traditional Chinese medical science and that its wide application in clinical diagnosis and treatment may offer a great contribution to its development. It fully embodies the complementarity of the advantages of Chinese traditional and Western medicine and appears as a form of expression of their organic integration and a practical embodiment of their combination at a higher lever as well.