A storage system is disclosed for symptom information of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In at least one embodiment, the system includes a processing module, a TCM standard data module and a storage module, wherein: a TCM specialized glossary and the correlated attributes of the TCM specialized glossary are stored in said TCM standard data module; the processing module is used for dividing the TCM symptom information into at least one phrase, matching the phrase(s) on the basis of the TCM specialized glossary so as to obtain terms belonging to said TCM specialized glossary, for establishing correlated relationships of terms in the phrase(s) according to the correlation attributes in the TCM specialized glossary, and for storing the terms for which a correlated relationship has been established as structured data in said storage module. At least one embodiment of the present invention further discloses a method for storing TCM symptom information. By implementing at least one embodiment of the present invention, symptom information recorded in any language customary to doctors can be accepted, thus reducing the complexity in recording symptom information, thereby facilitating the input thereof by the doctor.
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