Qu Xiang Bi Lei is the metaphorizing process and the way of forming metaphors in Chinese medicine, and metaphor is its deep structure. In real fact, Chinese medicine is a linguistic medical system for it forms in the way of linguistication and metaphorization. Interpreting metaphors in Chinese medicine is a key to understand, reconstruct, inherit and develop Chinese medicine.

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1 Cultural Differences between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine 2 Tian Ren He Yi: The Ontological Presupposition of Chinese Medicine 3 Qu Xiang Bi Lei: The Metaphorizing Process and the Way of Forming Metaphors in Chinese Medicine 4 Metaphors in Chinese Medicine: Revealing Relationships and an Exact Thinking 5 Metaphorizing: The Way to Bridge The Book of Changes and Chinese Medicine 6. Metaphorizing: A Vital Approach to Understand Yin-Yang and Five Phases 7 Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand the Human Being 8 Number Metaphors for Constructing the Theoretical System of Chinese Medicine 9 Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand and Modernize Chinese Herbal Medicine 10 Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand the Concept of Health and Disease 11 Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Develop Chinese Medicine