Chinese medicine syndrome (CMS, "ZHENG" in Chinese) is an understanding of the regularity of disease occurrence and development as well as a certain stage of a comprehensive response of patients with body condition. However, because of the complexity of CMS and the limitation of present investigation method, the research for deciphering the scientific basis and systematic features of CMS is dif...

BACKGROUND Treatment of cardiac syndrome X with unknown pathological mechanism remains a big challenge for clinicians. Complementary and alternative medicine may bring a new choice for its management. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical effects of traditional Chinese medicine on cardiac syndrome X patients. METHODS We systematically searched databases such as Cochrane CENTRAL, P...

The research into the impersonality and information of the Traditional Chinesemedicine Diagnosis (TCMD) is recognized to be a crucial work, especially for the Traditional Chinese-medicine (TCM) medicine examination system. However the tongue is like a mirror of the Viscera, and the pathological changes of them can reflect on the tongue. So according the information of the Sizhen for the syndrom...

The use of complementary and alternative medicine and herbal products, especially traditional Chinese medicines, is progressively rising for both adults and children. This increased use is based on the popular belief that these medicines are safe and harmless. In this report, we describe the results of a bedside-to-bench study that involved a short-statured 4-year-old boy with deficiencies in g...

AIM To analyze liver tests before and following treatment with herbal Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in order to evaluate the frequency of newly detected liver injury. METHODS Patients with normal values of alanine aminotransferase (ALT) as a diagnostic marker for ruling out pre-existing liver disease were enrolled in a prospective study of a safety program carried out at the First German...

The article, from perspective of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), summarizes etiology as well pathogenesis, dialectical classification, and treatment method renal cyst, concludes that when treating the disease, first thing to do is supplement kidney, then give pathogen tonify qi while attack pathogen. Additionally, key have dynamic observation timely treatment. In a word, TCM integrated has ...

BACKGROUND There are approximately five Zhengs reported in psoriatic patients. Systematic data collection and proper analysis for the classification of psoriasis have been lacking. This study aims to cluster the Zhengs in psoriatic patients based on the application of a checklist of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) symptoms and signs followed by latent class analysis (LCA). METHODS A cross-...

Purpose: To investigate the correlation between traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) constitution and pregnancy outcomes in elderly primiparae.Methods: A cross-sectional case-control study was conducted on 113 primiparae who were delivered Jinshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China from January 2019 to December 2019. The group. Using a random ratio 1:3, 393 primiparous women suitable a...

Decoctions have been always playing an important role in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In this paper, we presented a discovery method of the knowledge of traditional classical prescription (TCP) in TCM. This work was based on the theory of formal concept analysis (FCA), and by the construction and study of an attribute partial order graph of the context of Cassia twig decoction and its de...

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has played a pivotal role in maintaining the health of Chinese people and is now gaining increasing acceptance around the global scope. However, TCM is confronting more and more concerns with respect to its quality. The intrinsic "multicomponent and multitarget" feature of TCM necessitates the establishment of a unique quality and bioactivity evaluation system...