title: [Establishment and practice of traditional Chinese medicine property cognitive model based on three elements].
abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) property theory is believed to be a key and difficult point of basic theory studies of TCM. Complex concepts, components and characteristics of TCM property have long puzzled researchers and urged them to develop new angles and approaches. In the view of cognitive science, TCM property theory is a cognitive process of storing, extracting, rebuilding and summarizing the sensory information about TCMs and their effects during the medical practice struggling against diseases under the guidance of traditional Chinese philosophical thinking. The cognitive process of TCM property has particular cognitive elements and strategies. Taking into account clinical application characteristics of TCMs, this study defines the particular cognitive elements. In the combination of research methods of modern chemistry, biology and mathematics, and on the basis early-stage work for five years, we have built a TCM property cognition model based on three elements and practiced with drugs with pungent and hot properties as example, in the hope of interpreting TCM properties with modern science and providing thoughts for the nature of medical properties and instruction for rational clinical prescription.
authors.affiliation: School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese medicine, Beijing 100102, China. zhangbing6@263.net
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Jianmei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xiaoqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Chunmiao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Zhijian
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000523:psychology*; D008962:Models, Theoretical
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal