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An extremely important aspect related to the diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is how to distinguish the positive symptoms and the negative symptoms. This often goes unnoticed. But is the differentiation between positive and negative symptoms that sometimes help us to distinguish certain clinical patterns/syndromes.
Some readers may be wondering what are negative symptoms and positive symptoms. Well, [...]

As I mentioned several times, yin deficiency, one of TCM several clinical patterns, is a way of classifying symptoms. In the text about the yin deficiency I explained what are these symptoms. In this article I will do a brief review of these symptoms, then we will focus on the selection of acupuncture points for each symptom [...]

It is noted that diseases in Western medicine has a logical cataloging of symptoms and clinical signs similar to disease in Chinese Medicine than in relation to clinical patterns.
What matters, for the reader, is that the same disease may be presented with different clinical patterns. Imagine a urinary tract infection (urinary infection is a western disease, [...]

Too often I find myself where my discussions were my interlocutors do not well understand what are symptoms, clinical signs, diseases or clinical patterns/syndromes. This text serves to explain exactly what these terms mean.
A symptom is no more than one complaint reported by patients. It refers to something the patient feels as pathological. For example, when a patient [...]

Now that we have seen that the TCM is essentially symptomatic we should raise another question: is Western medicine symptomatic? Is this form of medicine primarily symptomatic? Does it need symptoms so much as TCM do? Is it based solely on relief of symptoms? Does it treat something else rather than symptoms?
O have already denounced this kind of discourse [...]

Chinese medicine is essentially symptomatic. Her way of thinking is made in order to treat symptoms. If I already gave an acupuncture example, allow me to cite an example from the book “Gynecology of Traditional Chinese Medicine”. In this book of the specialty of gynecology, the authors, in the treatment of menorrhagia and metrostaxis due to heat in [...]

One of the phrases, much heard in the Portuguese world of TCM (Tradicional Chinese Medicine) is that Western medicine is symptomatic, ie, treats symptoms. Although not directly, this statement is linked to another very common belief in TCM: acupuncture therapists treat energy imbalances in the body. We regulate the body’s energies, since we have a more holistic [...]

Yin is, as understood in Chinese medicine, responsible for organic liquids and anchor the yang. If Yin becames weak then we assist to an increase of Yang in the way that a clinical pattern of yin deficiency will be characterized by the following symptoms:
1. Agitation: a person can not be quiet, feel more agitated than normal because [...]

The stagnation of qi beggins from the formation of a blockade that does not allow the deployment of qi. The symptoms are described as a consequence of the stagnation of qi and the regular functions of the organs involved. However, a more thorough examination of the organs, it is necessary to understand well all the [...]

Blood stasis is a clinical pattern that betrays a series of symptoms that are associated with the interruption of blood flow, as understood in the TCM.
There is always a correlation between the stagnation of qi and blood stasis because it is the free flow of qi that allows the mobility of blood. It is very [...]