Physiological and Pathological Characteristics of Women
Gynecology of TCM is a clinical specialty and concentrates on studying the physiological and pathological characteristics, diagnostic and therapeutic principles and specific diseases related to women. Through a long history of two thousand years of practice and improvement, gynecology of TCM has developed a unique theory based on the physiological and pathological characteristics of women which are quite different from those of men. Women are characterized by uterus, uterine collaterals and uterine vessels in anatomy; menstruation, pregnancy, delivery and child-feeding in physiology; and disorders of menstruation, leukorrhea, pregnancy and delivery in pathology. It is just based on the cognition of uterus, menstruation, pregnancy, delivery and child-feeding as well as their relation with the viscera, meridians, qi and blood that gynecology of TCM studies the pathological characteristics of woman disease and the principles for prevention and clinical treatment.