A Brief on Pain and Its Patterns in Chinese Medicine

摘要

Pain is the most common symptom in clinics.Therefore,the quality,time course and location of pain are important for the diagnosis and treatment.However,pain is very difficult to define,and it is one of the conditions poorly understood by the medical sciences.In Western medicine pain is often described in terms of a penetrating or tissue-destructive process and/or emotional reactions,but in Chinese medicine the pathogenesis and description of pain are different.It is described based on the theories and pa...