Using associative neural network to interpret syndromes of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Millions of people benefit from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) every day. Unfortunately, till now, TCM has not been accepted as science by world, especially by western people. Bian Zheng Lun Zhi is the distillation of TCM. Syndrome is the key in the system of Bian Zheng Lun Zhi. Studies about the syndrome is the core of study of the basic theory of TCM. We creatively interpret TCM through a view of cognitive science and take syndromes of TCM as concepts of the brain. This paper tries to introduce the syndrome to western people, in order to let western people understand our viewpoints more easily. The best method is to adopt a manner that is easily understood by them, already exists, and has been thought to be right. So we employ neural networks presented by foreign people as the brain model instead of the our presented network. By using two classic cases of TCM, we successfully clarify the three main properties of syndrome in TCM