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Table 1 The definition of Traditional Chinese Medicine syndromes

From: Sjogren’s syndrome in clinical trials of traditional Chinese medicine: protocol for the development of a core outcome set

What are TCM syndromes?

“Syndrome” is an abstract generalization of the pathological changes of a disease at a certain phase, which can reveal the essence of the disease in a deeper and more comprehensive way, and is the basis of clinical treatment of TCM. In clinical practice of TCM, syndrome elements are of great significance for diseases diagnosis and treatment, owing to different syndrome groups have different metabolic characteristics and susceptibility to diseases.

Example

Blood stasis syndrome

Deficiency of Qi and Yin syndrome

Qi deficiency syndrome

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