As an important theoretical basis of complexity science

complex self-adaptation system provides a new tool to study Chinese medical tacit knowledge representation. Based on the theory of complex self-adaptation system

the authors analyzed that there were three representation paths of Chinese medical tacit knowledge

including hermeneutics of Chinese medical classic literature

interactivity in the inherited study

and knowledge "emergence"of individualized diagnosis and treatment in clinical practice. These paths may provide thinking and methods for the theoretical study of Chinese medicine and the study of explication and sharing about Chinese medicine tacit knowledge.