The Nineteen Pathomechanisms
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CORE DEFINITION
The 19 principles of disease attribution summarized in the Huangdi Neijing. For example, 'All wind-related conditions with dizziness and tremor belong to the Liver' and 'All pain, itching, and sores belong to the Heart.' It serves as an index table for quickly categorizing complex symptoms into viscera.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
Error code lookup manual. When seeing a patient with convulsions or dizziness (dizziness and tremor), regardless of the Western medical diagnosis, first consult the code table—attribute it to the 'Liver' system. This is the oldest and most reliable 'symptom-viscera' mapping algorithm in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Derived from the 'Nineteen Pathomechanisms' in the Suwen · Zhi Zhen Yao Da Lun, it uses the pattern 'All ... belong to ...' to categorize groups of symptoms into corresponding viscera or disease nature (wind, cold, dampness, fire, etc.). The mechanism establishes a deterministic mapping rule of 'symptom—pathomechanism—viscera', providing a searchable index for pattern differentiation and reducing ambiguity in clinical categorization.
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