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Objective:To investigate the common diseases and the Constitution of Traditional Chinese Medicine of plateau-related soldiers, and explore the correlation between them.Methods:A total of 271 plateau-related soldiers in our sanatorium from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020 were selected as the subjects. All of them were assessed by the TCM constitution scale and the self-designed disease questionnaire and Sociodemographic information.Results:Eighty two percent of 271 plateau-related soldiers were regarded as paranoid constitution and 17.7% were gentleness type. There 73.1% of plateau-related soldiers had one or more diseases, and 90.9% of them were paranoid constitution. There were 47 cases of respiratory diseases, including 2 cases of gentleness type (4.3%) and 45 cases of paranoid constitution (95.7%); 53 cases of digestive system diseases, including 1 case of gentleness type (1.9%) and 52 cases of paranoid constitution (98.1%); 27 cases of skin diseases, including 1 case of gentleness type (3.7%) and 26 cases of paranoid constitution (96.3%); 148 cases of musculoskeletal diseases, including 15 cases of gentleness type (10.1%) and 133 cases of paranoid constitution (89.9%). The digestive system diseases with the highest proportion of paranoid constitution were selected for TCM Constitution correlation analysis, suggesting that there was a correlation between them( χ2=11.32, P<0.01). People including Qi deficiency and phlegm-dampness were more prone to digestive system diseases ( P<0.01). There was a significant negative correlation between gentleness type and digestive system diseases [ OR=0.17, 95% CI(0.040-0.726); P=0.017], as well as Qi deficiency [ OR=4.98, 95% CI(2.717-9.120)] and phlegm-dampness [ OR=12.00, 95% CI(5.269-27.332)]were risk factors for them ( P<0.01). Conclusions:The overall health level of plateau-related soldiers was not optimistic. The digestive system diseases of them were positively correlated with Qi deficiency and phlegm-dampness.
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The literature and books of Lingnan classical medicine books of pediatrics from China Classic was retrieved. This paper analyzed and summarized four body constitutional features for Lingnan children, including vulnerable Zang viscera, spleen-stomach deficiency, tendency to dryness-heat and dampness prevalent diseases. This paper provided the evidence for Lingnan children's constitution identification and prevention and treatment of diseases.
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This study aimed at exploring the features of the body constitution and syndrome types of TCM in patients with pSS.General information of 60 patients with pSS was collected.Their TCM syndrome types and TCM body constitution types were examed,while the distribution of pSS syndrome types in terms of their body constitution was analyzed.Among 60 pSS patients,58 of them (96.67％) were female with the average age of 52 years and an average course of 63 months.Their usual residence was Xinjiang.Their most common first symptoms included thirst,dry eyes and joint pain,and the damage of skin and mucous membranes and blood system was rare.It was found that the syndrome of both qi and yin deficiency was the most common (48.33％),followed by the impregnation syndrome of heat and dampness (26.67％) and the syndrome of the weakness of spleen qi (25％) in pSS patients.Yin deficiency (58.33％) and yang deficiency (58.33％) in the body constitution of TCM accounted for decent proportions,followed by the constitutions of qi stagnation (48.33％),qi deficiency (45.00％),blood stasis (38.33％),phlegm-dampness (36.67％),damp-heat (18.33％),allergic (13.33％) and yin-yang harmony (1.67％).Those without the health education of pSS accounted for 51.11％ in cases of palindromia.In conclusion,yin deficiency and yang deficiency constitutions were most common,at most,the body constitution of both qi and yin deficiency,in pSS patients in accordance with TCM body constitution.Most pSS patients of palindromia didn't received professional health education of pSS.All the causes above suggested that we should make individualized treatment programs according to clinical syndrome types and the characteristics of TCM body constitution in pSS patients for strengthening the health management of pSS and improving their quality of life.
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Objective To find out the distribution of TCM constitution on the patients with stroke in Beijing. Method The TCM Constitution Questionnaire was used to evaluate 489 patients with stroke in three hospitals in Beijing. Results The qi-deficiency constitution (140 patients, 28.63%), yin-deficiency constitution (95 patients, 19.43%), blood-stasis constitution(89 patients, 18.20%) and phlegm-heat constitution (73 patients, 14.93%) were the most common constitution, while qi-depression constitution (22 patients, 4.50%) and yang-deficiency constitution (20 patients, 4.09%) were the less common. The top three constitution in middle aged wereqi-deficiency (33 patients, 27.27%), phlegm-heat (23 patients, 19.01%) and blood stasis (22 patients, 18.18%). The top three constitution in the aged groupwere qi-deficiency (107 patients, 29.08%), yin-deficiency (76 patients, 20.65%) and blood-stasis (67 patients, 18.21%). Conclusions Stroke is closely related with imbalance of TCM constitution. The prevention and treatment of stroke patients with different ages should vary according to the constitutions.
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Objective]Through judging the constitutional types of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) of acute mastitis patients, do statistics and analysis of the distribution of the acute mastitis patients’constitutional types of TCM, and study their laws, in order to provide guiding basis of constitutional theory of TCM for preventing and early treating mastitis. [Method] By means of questionnaire method, judge the constitutional types of TCM of 77 acute mastitis patients according to the classification and judgment of constitution of TCM ,and analyze the results by statistical methods. [Results] The number of the constitutional types of TCM of 77 acute mastitis patients from high to low is as follows: dampness-heat constitution is 65 cases, energy-stagnant constitution is 52 cases, yang-deficiency constitution is 51 cases, qi-deficiency constitution is 37 cases, yin-deficiency constitution is 34 cases, phlegm-dampness constitution is 32 cases, blood-stasis constitution is 29 cases, normal constitution is 12 cases, and special-natural constitution is 7 cases. Individuality constitution has 9 cases, two and three mixed constitution each has 12 cases, four and five mixed constitution each has 9 cases, six mixed constitution has 14 cases, seven mixed constitution has 11 cases, eight mixed constitution has 1 case. In the main constitutional types of TCM of 77 acute mastitis patients, dampness-heat constitution(54 cases, 70.13%) is most, followed by normal constitution(12 cases, 15.58%) and yang-deficiency constitution(5 cases, 6.49%). In the individuality constitution and two mixed constitution, the proportion of dampness-heat constitution(60 cases, 39.47%) is highest, and that of yang-deficiency constitution(34 cases, 22.37%) is also higher. This shows that: 1. Dampness-heat constitution is the most common constitutional type related with the occurrence of acute mastitis, and yang-deficiency constitution is the second. 2. The acute mastitis patients have a variety of constitutional types such as dampness-heat constitution, energy-stagnant constitution etc. Mixed constitution is common and complex. May be it is associated with the particular period of postpartum lactation period. [Conclusion] Constitution as internal factors of disease has an important influence on occurrence and development of acute mastitis. It has great meaning to adjust prejudiced constitutional types of TCM as dampness-heat constitution and yang-deficiency constitution for preventing and early treating acute mastitis. This reflects the TCM thought of“treat unoccurred disease”.
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Objective To explore the correlation between TCM constitution and sleep status in escort troops. Methods Standardized TCM Constitution Questionnaire and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used to investigate escort troops. Factors of PSQI and constitution types were analyzed. Results The results of PSQI showed the number of escort troops who had bad sleeping (PSQI>7) was 64, which accounted for 46%of the escort troops, among which, 45 people (70.3%) were justified as biased constitution, while 19 were normal constitution (29.7%). The top three biased constitution in bad sleeping were:qi deficiency, phlegm-dampness and dampness-heat. PSQI factors such as sleep disorder, daytime dysfunction and total score had positive correlation with qi deficiency, yang deficiency, yin deficiency, dampness-heat and blood stasis, and negative correlation with normal constitution. Conclusion Sleep condition of escort troops has correlation with TCM constitution, which indicates that sleep status could be improved by regulating TCM constitution.