Phlegm-heat and bowel-excess syndrome is a key syndrome in the acute stage of stroke and is an important factor affecting the condition and prognosis of stroke disease， but there is a lack of unified diagnostic criteria. According to the standard development process of China Association of Chinese Medicine， on the basis of standardised definition of terms， the diagnostic conditions are presented in the form of combination method. The diagnosis criteria combined primary and secondary symptoms， and combined with the expert opinion to form

Diagnostic Criteria for Stroke with Phlegm

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Heat and Bowel

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Excess Syndrome

， so as to promote the clinical diagnosis and treatment of phlegm-heat and bowel-excess syndrome in stroke disease as well as the related scientific research and teaching work.