Syndrome differentiation and treatment:
1. Spleen Qi Deficiency
With these symptoms a person needs to take medicine to improve spleen to produce blood and QI. Certain emotions such as pensiveness weaken the Spleen. A cold, wet climate is also a factor in Spleen Qi deficiency. "Spleen Yang deficiency" and "Spleen Qi Sinking" are further progressions from Spleen Qi Deficiency and have many of the same symptoms.

2. Cold Dampness Invading the Spleen
This pattern normally develops after being exposed to a cold rainy environment.  It’s helpful to seek out warmer environments, turn up the heat, do more exercise, put on a sweater and try using a dry sauna to knock out some of the Cold, Damp energy out of the body. Use of moxabustion is also indicated.

3. Damp-Heat Invading the Spleen
This pattern is often seen when a person lives or works in a hot humid environment. This pattern can be helped by clearing the Heat and resolving the Dampness. Use more energetically cooling medicines. Dampness can be cleared using bitter medicine and foods and teas such as dandelion, bitter gourd (tea or soup), and green vegetables. Chinese doctors can also use acupoints to clear Heat and Damp.

In Chinese medicine, when treating a disease, the doctors take everything into into consideration, including climatic changes, environmental variations, emotional changes, the diet, the urine and the stool, the sleep, and the disorder of sex life. That is the feature of the Three Pathogens Theory in TCM. This etiology doctrine built on the basis of the macro methodology entirely differs from that of Western medicine. It is on the basis of the microscopic and pathologic anatomy. But it is exactly a biological, psychological, social and new medical model that Western medicine is attempting to pursue. While Chinese medicine established its own system with this medical model two thousand years ago.

Chinese doctor doesn’t considers static anatomy as a starting point for understanding the diseases, and does not rely on detection equipments. On the contrary, Chinese doctor depends on the unique ways of TCM diagnosis to experience and study the human dynamic life information. Also it is based on syndrome differentiation to guide the disease therapy. This method not only can save a lot of examination fees for patients, but also can help doctors exchange with patients more closely, thus reflecting a real humanistic spirit.