Am J Chin Med. 1983 ; 11(1-4): 35-42.

Scientific clarification of diagnostics used in Chinese traditional medicine--a genetic and biochemical study of confirmation.

Arichi S.

Chinese medicine has the heritage of diagnostic technique in which the past, present and future characteristics of patients are comprehensively pigeonholed by the concept of "confirmation" to presume the prognosis of the disease. If this simple "therapeutic diagnosis" to select the therapeutic agents can be combined with "pathologic diagnosis" of Western medicine, it could contribute a great deal to the modern medicine. For this purpose, it is necessary to study the philosophy of and agents used in Chinese medicine at the current level of science.