Literature Research Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine: Volume 6 December, 2008 Number 12DOI: 10.3736/jcim20081216 Characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine syndromes and their element distributions in sub-health status: a modern literature review 1. Ya-jing ZHANG (Preclinical School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China ) 2. Tian-fang WANG (Preclinical School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China E-mail: tianfangwang2000@yahoo.com.cn ) 3. Xiao-lin XUE (Preclinical School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China ) 4. Jia-jia WANG (Preclinical School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China ) 5. Guan-ru LI (Preclinical School, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China ) 6. Ping HAN (Health Examination Centre, Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital, Beijing 102211, China )
Objective: To probe into the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine syndromes and their element distributions in sub-health status.
Methods: Literatures on sub-health in past 20 years were collected, and a data bank was set up by using EpiData 2.0. The frequencies of syndromes and their elements were analyzed using SPSS 12.0.
Results: Out of the 50 syndromes obtained from the standardization of syndrome nomenclature, and the top three were stagnation of liver-qi, deficiency of both heart and spleen, and deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin. Spleen, liver and kidney were the top three of all the 14 disease locations. Qi-deficiency, qi-stagnation and damp pathogen were the top three pathogenicity types.
Conclusion: Although the traditional Chinese medicine syndromes in sub-health status are scattered in the distribution, the main syndromes take up a leading proportion and their elements are concise and concentrated in distribution. Therefore, it is necessary to make a standard study on traditional Chinese medicine syndromes in sub-health status from syndrome elements.