First, the concept and relationship of disease, syndrome and symptom:
1. disease, that is, disease, refers to a complete abnormal life process in which pathogenic factors act on the human body and vital qi opposes it, resulting in imbalance of yin and yang, damage to viscera and tissues, abnormal physiological function or mental activity disorder.
2. Syndrome, that is, syndrome, is a pathological summary of a certain stage or type in the disease process, which is generally composed of a group of relatively fixed and internally related symptoms and signs that can reveal the essence of a certain stage or type of disease. Syndrome is the external reflection of pathogenesis, and pathogenesis is the internal essence of syndrome.
3. Symptoms, that is, the general term of symptoms and signs, are individual and isolated phenomena in the process of disease, which can be abnormal subjective feelings or behaviors of patients or abnormal signs found by doctors when examining patients. Syndrome is the main basis for judging diseases and identifying syndromes.
Second, the same disease and different diseases are treated together
Essence: the same syndrome governs the same, and the different syndrome governs the different.