Traditional Chinese medicine has been guided by ancient philosophies of dialectic materialism. The Chinese people have made repeated observations of life phenomena, of physiological manifestations, of pathological reflection, and of clinical therapeutic effects, to pharmacological reflection, and of clinical therapeutic effects, to name a few.
They have synthe-sized, induced, analyzed, and contrasted their observations, then through employing de-ductive reasoning, the Chinese have sublimated those observations.
The complete system of TCM was formed consisting the yin and yang theory and the five elements theory be-ing the basic theoretical method; the core system is comprised of the zang-viscera and fu-viscera theories; and the meridian theory is the theoretcal core, with treatment based on syndrome differentiation.
