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| Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy | OTHER_GOV |
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This study aims to evaluate indices of tongue diagnosis, ausculative diagnosis, and pulse diagnosis in the determination of institutions.
Constitution differentiation is important for the prescription of Chinese medicines. In previous studies, researchers usually used constitutional questionnaires to determine constitutions.However, the importance of tongue diagnosis and pulse diagnosis remained unclear. The specific aim of this study is to evaluation indices of tongue diagnosis, auscultative diagnosis, and pulse diagnosis in the determination of constitutions. Meeting of specialists will determine the characteristics for each constitution first. This study plans to recruit 200 volunteers and determine their constitutions by constitutional questionnaires. Tongue manifestations and pulse pressure waveforms will be taken at the same time by standardized instruments. Relations between the indices and each constitution will be determined by multiple linear regression and logistic regression analysis. Then the percentage of importance of a specific index in a specific constitutional type could be determine.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| normal | A normal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Qi deficiency | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Damp heat | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Yang deficiency | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Yin deficiency | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Phlagm | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound | Diagnostic Test | They are four diagnosis methods of TCM |
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| Tongue image | A photograph of tongue will be taken and the RGB color values of the tongue will be analyzed using Photoshop software | The photograph will be taken only at the first day the subject has been recruited |
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| Acoustic sound | Voice wave analysis of an one-second /a/ sound (in only one time point) | The voice waves will be taken only once at the first day the subject has been recruited |
| Pulse image | Time-domained pulse waveform of the radial artery will be recorded for about 1 minute |
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aged older than 20 years old
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| CMUH | Taichung | 404 | Taiwan |
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| ID | Term |
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| D011674 | Pulse |
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| D006439 | Hemodynamics |
| D002320 | Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena |
| D002943 | Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena |
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| Blood stasis | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Qi stagnation | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| Special | One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM. |
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| The pulse waveforms will be recorded at the first day the subject has been recruited |