The basic principles of the dietetic therapy on the patients with fractures are the concept of wholism and providing diet based on telling the difference among symptoms.
Treatment based on syndrome differentiation, another important feature of the theoretical system of TCM, is a basic principle in TCM for understanding and treating disease.
By applying the theories of yin-yang and the five elements, it has developed the therapeutic principles based on syndrome differentiation, seasonal changes, geographical localities and individual constitution.
To inquire about anamnesis is helpful for syndrome differentiation and clinical administration of medicines. Since some diseases are infectious and hereditary, the inquiry of family history should not be neglected.
Syndrome differentiation implies that the clinical data of a patient collected through the four examinations are analyzed and generalized so as to identify the pathological mechanism of the disease.
Treatment means to select the corresponding therapy according to the result of syndrome differentiation. Taken as a whole, treatment based on syndrome differentiation is a process to understand and resolve a disease.