The core mechanism of Chinese medicine therapeutic efficacy is adaptive balance effect. Take the common clinical phenomenon that symptoms and signs of many chronic diseases are obviously improved after Chinese medicine treatment but without significant changes in results of laboratory test or pathological examination as the breakthrough point

the author explores the mechanism of Chinese medicine efficacy from angles of traditional Chinese medicine therapeutic thinking

clinical practice and related researches

etc. The author holds that the whole view related to Chinese medicine system is an academic thinking

including correspondence between man and universe

environmental factors and Zang-Fu relationship

and other interactions. These academic thinking and nonlinear complex mechanism

such as individual compatibility of herbs compound

achieve the unique core mechanism of Chinese medicine

which is called adaptive balance effect. Adaptive balance establishes not only relative healthy status

but dynamically progressive new balance which is also the base of disease recovery.