Title :
Goal based bisimulation for testing therapies in traditional Chinese medicine
Author :
Zheng, Guang ; He, Xiaojuan ; Jiang, Miao ; Lu, Aiping
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Basic Res. in Clinical Med., China Acad. of Chinese Med. Sci., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there is an interesting phenomena. It can “treat different diseases with the same therapy” (TDDST). This meant that different diseases manifesting themselves in the same syndrome may be treated with the same therapy. What´s more, TCM can also “treat the same disease with different therapies” (TSDDT), by which it means that the same disease may manifest itself in different syndromes at different stages or under different conditions. Both TDDST and TSDDT are aiming at one goal: healing the patients/diseases. During thousands year´s practise, TCM works in both TDDST and TSDDT. In order to describe this interesting phenomenon, we propose a process algebra with goal based equivalent relationship in this paper.
Keywords :
algebra; diseases; patient monitoring; patient treatment; algebra; disease syndromes; patient therapy; traditional Chinese medicine; goal based equivalent; process algebra; therapy; traditional Chinese medicine;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops (BIBMW), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong, Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8303-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8304-4
DOI :
10.1109/BIBMW.2010.5703869