Human being have limitation in observing phenomena around them, and they have to observe the things positively in order to broaden their knowledge. In other words, they have to implement experiments on the hypothesis and verify the theory. In oriental medicine field, experimental methodology is required in order to test theories and prove the theories objectively. In oriental medicine, it is the key point that diagnosis and treatment are based on overall of symptoms and signs AZW. ). The view is different from western medicine. Therefore, in oriental medicine, new model of diagnosis based on "zung(M)" should be developed in order to test and prove by experiment the theory objectively.
In this article, experimental methodologies were reviewed and the problems related to them were brought to attention.
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