The terms concerning body constituents in traditional Chinese medicine,comparatively speaking,are somewhat limited because the components of human body are limited.So altogether there are only 29 included
In traditional Chinese medicine(TCM),the causes of diseases are generally divided into three categories,i.e.internal cause,external cause and thecause that is neither internal
Intraditional Chinese medicine,there are quite a number of terms,phrases and expressions used to describe pathogenesis of diseases.The English word pathogenesis is frequently used to translate the Chinese concept of 病机whichliterally means the mechanis m of a disease.Such a translation,though still under debate,has been generally accepted by more and more translators.
