title: [Diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and laboratory medicine].
abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western medicine have the common purpose and can complement each other, though they belong to different medical systems. Laboratory medicine can provide the scientific bases for modernization and standardization of TCM by offering elaborate and objective laboratory data. Fully playing the role of laboratory medicine in TCM diagnosis and treatment will not only be beneficial to the rush of TCM out of China toward the world, and also be favorable to the innovating and developing of laboratory medicine in integrative medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory, Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiao-hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Shang
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers