There is not unified and objective standard in classification of Chinese medicine (CM) for type 2 diabetes, due to the multiple, complicated syndromes, and different treatment.Syndrome element differentiation,founded by professor Zhu Wenfeng,whose core is syndrome element,is based on the theory of CM syndrome.Compared with the current classification methods of CM for type 2 diabetes, it has many characteristics, such as specifications, objective,comprehensive and so on.It not only makes the dialectical method easy to learn, but also greatly improve the a...