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- Title
Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine Four-diagnostic auxiliary apparatus in evaluation of health status and clinical treatment.
- Authors
Chen Tianyu; Niu Tingli; Niu Xin; Si Yingchu; Yang Xuezhi; Ma Liangxiao
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Four-diagnostic Auxiliary Apparatus in disease diagnosis. METHODS: The liver cancer patients and healthy controls were recruited from Shanghai Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital and Bei jing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, respectively. Then, the included subjects were diagnosed by the Four-diagnostic auxiliary apparatus. RESULTS: Thirty liver cancer patients and 30 paired healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Based on the apparatus, the pulse wave velocity was significantly higher in patients compared with controls (P < 0.05). The number of patients with purple tongue and ecchymosis were more than controls (P < 0.05). The number of patients (10%) with yellow tongue coating were higher than the controls (0%). Patients were inclined to be with water type and fire type constitution. CONCLUSION: TCM Four-diagnostic auxiliary apparatus can be applied in clinical diagnosis of body constitution and health status of subjects. It promotes the accuracy and speed for disease diagnosis and TCM standardization.
- Publication
Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
0255-2922
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/s0254-6272(18)30637-x