“证”、“症”、“征”这3个字表示对“病”的不同描述。“证”最早指患者的临床表现,随着理论的发展,转而包括对病机的判断和诊断结论,是对疾病所处一定阶段或一定阶段某种类型的病因、病性、病位所做的概括,如适应证、禁忌证等;“症”只是病证的外在表现,专指病证的临床表现 The three words “syndrome”, “symptom” and “sign” indicate different descriptions of “disease”. “Certificate” first refers to the clinical manifestations of patients, with the development of theory, in turn, including the pathogenesis of the judgment and diagnosis concluded that the disease at a certain stage or stage of a certain type of etiology, disease, disease location To do a generalization, such as indications, contraindications, etc .; “disease” is only the external manifestations of disease syndromes, specifically refers to the clinical manifestations of syndromes