title: [Research approach for biological basis of Chinese medical syndromes of chronic viral hepatitis B].
abstract: Chronic viral hepatitis B (CHB) is a major infectious disease greatly harmful to the health of Chinese people. Chinese medicine has its speciality and advantages in treating it depending syndrome-differentiation. The objectified researches regarding Chinese medical syndromes in CHB heretofore were reviewed in this article. Moreover, aiming at existing problems and taking the angle of "disease-syndrome combining" study, authors put forward research approach, and approaches for studying systemic biology based biological basis of Chinese medical syndrome in hepatitis B with reductionism and holism, cybernetics and system theories in combination.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, Shanghai.
authors.forename: Shi-Bing
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Yi-Yang
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Li-Ping
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D019694:Hepatitis B, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*