Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine Four-diagnostic auxiliary apparatus in evaluation of health status and clinical treatment

• Published in: Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan Vol. 38; no. 3; p. 447
• Main Authors: Chen, Tianyu, Niu, Xin, Si, Yingchu, Yang, Xuezhi, Ma, Liangxiao, Niu, Tingli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China 01.06.2018
• Subjects: Multi-information fusion; Four diagnostic methods; Equipment and supplies; Liver neoplasms; Medicine, Chinese traditional
• ISSN: 2589-451X

To evaluate the application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Four-diagnostic Auxiliary Apparatus in disease diagnosis. The liver cancer patients and healthy controls were recruited from Shanghai Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital and Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, respectively. Then, the included subjects were diagnosed by the Four-diagnostic auxiliary apparatus. 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. 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.