Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine Four-diagnostic auxiliary apparatus in evaluation of hea

• 作 者: Chen Tianyu Niu Tingli Niu Xin Si Yingchu Yang Xuezhi Ma Liangxiao
• 机 构: Chinese Medicine Institution in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China“,”Medi
• 出 处: 中医杂志（英文版）
• 发表日期: 2018年3期
• 关键词: Liver neoplasms Four diagnostic methods Equipment and supplies Medicine Chinese

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 andWest Medicine Hospital and Beijing 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.