系统科学在中医体质学研究中的重要作用

Importance of Applying Systems Science to Researches on Constitution of Chinese Medicine

系统科学作为横断性的学科,比一般的交叉学科所涵盖的范围更宽,它把事物看做系统,从系统结构、功能、系统的演化等方面研究各学科的共性规律,是各门学科的方法论和基础。从系统科学角度来看,中医体质是一个复杂系统,具备多元性、相关性、整体性、涌现与层次性等系统特性;同时,系统科学是研究中医体质的合适工具,能够通过建模仿真推动和完善中医体质研究。所以,将系统科学应用于中医体质研究,将使中医体质学研究更加系统、深化,使其可望在生命科学和医学研究领域取得突破性进展。

As a cross subject,systems science is much wider than general interdisciplinary subjects. It takes things as systems, and studies the general rule of subjects from structure, function and evolution. It is the methodology and base of every subject. From the point of view of Systems Science, Constitution of Chinese Medicine is a complex system, which has the system characteristics such as diversity, relativity, wholeness, emergence and hierarchy. Systems Science provides a proper tool to constitution of Chinese Medicine, which promotes and improves research on Constitution of Chinese Medicine by modeling and simulation. With Systems Science applied to researches on Constitution of Chinese Medicine ,the latter will be deeper and more systematic, and may make breakthrough progress in the fields of life science and medical research.