Animal behavior analysis is the key important technology to decide model animal syndrome and understand the essence of Chinese medicine "syndrome". By summarizing the thinking and method development of modern animal ethology

the authors put forward the concept of syndrome phenomics in syndrome / disease-syndrome combination animal model behavior evaluation. By analyzing several important theoretical problems in this subject field

the authors point out several assumptions of syndrome phenomics technology applied to the field of Chinese medicine

including possible great development of subject field brought by joint application of gene manipulation techniques

as well as long term behavior monitoring cage which might be the possible trend of animal behavior analysis in the future.This article provides ideas and methods for solving the syndrome attribute decision of animal model and revealing the complex connotation of Chinese medicine syndrome.