Different treatment for the same disease means that different treatments for the same disease reflect different syndromes due to different onset time and region, different stages or types of diseases, or different constitutions of patients. For example, the common cold can have different syndromes such as wind-cold, wind-heat, rheumatism, wind-dryness, and qi deficiency because of its different etiology, pathogenesis and patients' physique, so there are corresponding treatment methods, such as pungent warming to relieve exterior syndrome, pungent cooling to relieve exterior syndrome, pungent dampness to relieve exterior syndrome, and invigorating qi to relieve exterior syndrome.
Treating different diseases at the same time means several different diseases. In the process of its development and change, there are roughly the same pathogenesis and syndromes, so it can be treated with roughly the same treatment methods and prescriptions. Such as gastroptosis, nephroptosis, uterine prolapse, proctoptosis and other different diseases, may have roughly the same pathological mechanism of "stagnation of middle qi" and show roughly the same syndromes in their development and changes, and all of them can be treated by supplementing middle qi.