Common dialectical methods of traditional Chinese medicine in treating pediatrics
Syndrome differentiation of exterior and interior, cold and heat, deficiency and excess, and yin and yang are the general principles of syndrome differentiation. Exterior and interior are the guidelines for identifying the location of disease, cold and heat are the guidelines for identifying the nature of disease, excess and deficiency are the guidelines for identifying the strength of healthy qi and the rise and fall of pathogenic factors, and yin and yang are the general guidelines for identifying the nature of disease. Eight categories of syndrome differentiation are applied to various pediatric diseases, such as exogenous fever and internal injuries, which can be summarized into eight categories. The choice of treatment methods, such as relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold and clearing heat, tonifying deficiency and purging excess, and harmonizing yin and yang, should be decided on the basis of eight principles of syndrome differentiation.
Zang-fu syndrome differentiation is a dialectical method to identify zang-fu organs and their properties by summarizing the symptoms of patients' diseases and syndromes with the theory of Tibetan images. Syndrome differentiation of zang-fu organs is based on the physiological functions and pathological characteristics of five zang-organs, six fu-organs and odd and constant fu-organs. Syndrome differentiation of zang-fu organs is mainly used for syndrome differentiation of internal injuries and miscellaneous diseases, and is often used as an auxiliary method for syndrome differentiation of exogenous diseases.
Commonly used classification methods of viscera syndrome differentiation in pediatrics: lung and colorectal diseases are divided into wind-cold binding lung syndrome, wind-heat invading lung syndrome, phlegm-heat blocking lung syndrome, phlegm-dampness blocking lung syndrome, lung qi deficiency and weakness syndrome, lung yin deficiency syndrome, large intestine damp-heat syndrome and large intestine deficiency and cold syndrome; Spleen and stomach diseases can be divided into spleen-qi deficiency syndrome, spleen-blood deficiency syndrome, spleen-yin deficiency syndrome, spleen-yang deficiency syndrome, cold-dampness trapped spleen syndrome, excess heat moving wind syndrome, stomach-cold deficiency syndrome, stomach-yin deficiency syndrome and stomach-heat syndrome.
Syndrome differentiation of hepatobiliary diseases can be divided into three types: excess heat moving wind syndrome, hepatobiliary damp-heat syndrome, liver depression and qi stagnation syndrome, liver-fire hyperactivity syndrome, liver-yin deficiency syndrome and liver-blood deficiency syndrome. Syndrome differentiation and classification of heart and small intestine diseases include qi deficiency syndrome, heart-blood deficiency syndrome, heart-yin deficiency syndrome, heart-yang deficiency syndrome, heart-fire hyperactivity syndrome, heart-blood stasis syndrome, phlegm-turbidity blocking heart syndrome, phlegm-fire disturbing heart syndrome, small intestine deficiency-cold syndrome and small intestine excess-heat syndrome. Kidney and bladder diseases are divided into kidney yin deficiency syndrome, kidney yang deficiency syndrome, kidney yin yang deficiency syndrome, kidney essence deficiency syndrome, kidney deficiency syndrome, bladder damp-heat syndrome, bladder cold deficiency syndrome and so on. Modern application of syndrome differentiation to brain, marrow, bone and pulse is gradually increasing.