[Study on systematic bioloay and syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine].
The ideas and methodology of science since the later half of 15th century were reviewed in this article. It was indicated that reduction theory is the science studying existence, mainly the components and nature of things, and emergency theory is the science studying production, mainly involved in the production of new things, the scientific attitude in research work is to combine these two theories (the reductionism and holism). The adthor also pointed out that the combination of systematic biology with molecular biology, and the application of mathematical modeling are the new trend in research of life science. Research of "syndrome", a professional TCM term, is just consistent with this located at scientific frontier and highly comprehensive systematic biological theory. The integration of findings at molecular level obtained during the last several decades by reduction theory will push the research of "Syndrome" into the scientific frontier again.
Shen
Zi-yun
ZY
Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai. ziyinshen@21cn.com
D001695:Biology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D016711:Yang Deficiency