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Studying the essence of a syndrome has been a key challenge in the field of Chinese medicine.Until now, due to limitations of the methods available, the progress towards understanding such complicated systems has been slow.Metabonomics encompasses the dynamics,composition and analysis of metabolites, enabling the observation of changes in the metabolic network of the human body associated with disease.Being from the point of view of the whole organism, metabonomics provides an opportunity to study the essence of a syndrome to an unprecedented level.