The traditional Chinese and andrology can be traced back to the ancient Chinese medical literature over 3000 years ago describing the diseases of male set,but it is only since mid 1980s of century whtn it was differentiated from traditional Chinese clinical medicine into an independent discipline that it has a great boom.The exact concept of this discipline was first presented and published in the literature in 1986.With concerted efforts of traditional Chinese andrologists,the discipline has been systematically established,enriched in content,properly categorized and progressively developed.However,judging from its present theoretical and clinical studies,the traditional Chinese andrology has not a uniform and definite positon in the entire system of traditional Chinese medicine and clinical disciplines,a due position in medical teaching and a far from uniform position in academic organizations.Seeing from the published literature and monographs,the discipline category of traditional Chinese andrology is also not uniform.All of this hinders the further development of the discipline.Therefore,in this paper the positioning and categorization of traditional Chinese andrology and their relationship with the development of the discipline are discussed.
