Professor XIONG Ji-bo points out that chronic diseases have three main characteristics from the perspective of TCM. Firstly, the course of illness is long and the illness repeatedly. Secondly, syndrome of intermingled deficiency and excess and syndrome of intermingled cold and heat. Thirdly, the main symptoms is difficult to cure and modified syndromes is complicated. In the clinical treatment of chronic diseases, it is necessary to keep the rules of ‘shou’ and ‘fang’. ‘Shou’ has the meaning of keeping pathogenesis in the whole course of ...
