adopts in treating diseases. The occurrence, 病的治疗原则。疾病的发development and changes of a disease are involved 生、发展和变化与许多因by various factors, including the climate, 素有关，包括天气、地理geographical environment, the patient's 环境、病人的体质、性别constitution, sex and age etc. Therefore, when 和年龄等。因此，医生治treating a disease, the doctor must take the three 疗疾病时，必须考虑这三conditions into account, and make a concrete 个条件，对具体条件做具analysis of concrete conditions and deal with them 体分析并区别对待，从而in different ways, thereby working out an 制定出适当的治疗方法。 appropriate therapeutic method.
Beside the above contents, we want to talk about 除此之外，我们还想谈谈therapeutic methods of TCM. Traditional methods 中医的治疗方法。传统的fall into eight categories. 方法可以归为八种。 a. Diaphoresis
a.汗法
One of the eight therapeutic methods, which is
expelling superficial pathogens by opening the 为八法之一，可以驱除pores of the skin, and regulating the function f 表邪，开发腠理和调和营ying and wei. It possesses the actions of 卫。它有解热发表，减轻antipyretics, promoting eruption, reducing edema 水肿和风湿等作用。 and rheumatism, etc. b. Emesis
b.吐法
Emesis is a treatment to use emetics or physical 吐法是用催吐剂或人工stimulation to induce vomiting for the removal of 诱导促进呕吐以驱除喉、retained toxic substances in the throat, chest or 胸或胃部残留的有害物stomach. But emesis is prohibited for pregnant 质。但是吐法禁用于妊娠women and must be applied cautiously to the weak. 妇女，慎用于体弱者。 c. Purgation
c.泻法
This is the therapeutic method for eliminating
这是用有效的或轻的泻
the undigested food, potent excessive heat and
法清除未消化食物、实热
fluid by the application of potent or mild
和液体的治疗方法，总的
purgatives, generally classified into purgation
可以分为寒药泻法、热药
with cold natured drugs, that with warm natured
泻法、滑性药泻法和水剂
drugs, that with lubricant natured drugs and
泻法。
hydropathic therapy. d. Mediation
d.和法
It is a treatment to dispel the pathogenic
这是一种用具有发散和
factors of shaoyang ( half-exterior and
调和作用的药物驱除少阳
half-interior ) and regulate qi and blood of
之邪、调理脏腑气血的治
zang-fu organs by the application of drugs with
疗方法，包括和解少阳，
actions of dispersion and regulation, including
疏肝理气，调理肝脾和调
relieving shaoyang disorder, dispersing
理肝胃等。
stagnated liver-qi, regulating the function of
the liver and spleen or of the liver and stomach, etc. e. Warming
e.温法
Warming, as the term suggests, is a therapeutic
温法，正如名字所提示
method using drugs of warm and hot nature to treat
的，是一种用温热性药治
cold-syndrome, dispelling cold by warming middle
疗寒证的治疗方法，可以
energizer expelling and helps recover yang,
温中祛寒，宣发阳气，温
removes cold by warming and meridians, restoring
经祛寒，回阳救逆，温通
yang from collapse and regulating the blood
血脉等。
vessels, etc. f. Heat-Clearing
f.清热
It is an effective method to clear away 它是一种用寒凉药物清pathogenic heat and fire with drugs of cold and 除火热之邪的一种有效方cool nature, applicable to excess-heat syndromes. 法，适用于实热证。 g. Resolution
g.消法
A therapeutic method for dispelling pathogenic sthenia by removing retained food and masses due 它是一种以祛除气滞、to stagnation of qi, blood stasis, phlegm, 血瘀、痰饮、饮食不化引undigested food, including regulating the flow of 起的饮食停滞而达到泻实qi, promoting blood circulation, removing 的治疗方法，包括行气，dampness through diuresis, dispelling phlegm, 活血，利尿化湿，祛痰等。 etc.
h. Tonification
h.补法
It's a therapeutic method for various kinds of 它是一种适用于由阴阳deficiency syndromes due to insufficiency of yin 气血亏虚引起的各种虚证and yang, qi and blood, generally classified into 的治疗方法，总的可以分invigorating qi, enriching blood, invigorating 为补气，养血，温阳，滋yang, nourishing yin. 阴。 在临床实践中，以上提 In clinical practice, any of the therapeutic 及的任何一种治疗方法都methods mentioned above is unlikely to satisfy the 不可能完全适用于特别是treatment of, especially, complicated cases, so, 复杂的疾病的治疗，因此，to keep all the aspects in view, two or more are 应该统观全局，同时结合usually employed in coordination. 运用两种或两种以上的治
疗方法。