Therapeutic principles are decided according to the concept of holism and treatment based on syndrome differentiation, clinically guiding the composition of prescriptions and the selection of herbs.
Therapeutic principles and therapeutic methods are different. The former guides the latter and the latter specifies the former. Their difference is relative. In fact, some minor therapeutic principles are quite similar to certain major therapeutic methods and vice versa. The so-called "major therapeutic method" in clinic can be taken both as a therapeutic method and a therapeutic principle.