[Overview and Future Thinking of Integrative Medicine].

Objective In this paper the author summarized the contents of clinical research of Chinese medicine ( CM) and Western medicine (WM) from thinking methods based on literature re- search. He believed there were two kinds of main contents: (1) Combine CM syndrome typing and WM disease identification based on clinical experiences; (2) Limit the flexibility of CM syndrome typing within recognition of WM depending on modern scientific researches, thus realizing the integration of macrosyndrome typing and micro-disease identification. Based on these contents, the author expounded future development of CM and WM from future goals, tasks, feasible ways, and specific work.