OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between traditional Chinese medical syndromes and fungal pneumonia for moderate and advanced lung cancer patients. METHODS We retrospected 115 moderate and advanced lung cancer patients with different syndromes in traditional Chinese medicine (qi deficiency, yin deficiency, blood deficiency, yang deficiency, blood stasis, phlegm dampness, phlegm heat, dam...

In recent years, the number of obese type 2 diabetes patients is increasing, and its clinical pathogenesis complex. According to etiology traditional Chinese medicine, syndrome spleen deficiency phlegm-dampness one important types diabetes. The treatment based on method "invigorating qi spleen, dispelling phlegm dampness". Clinical use acupuncture, massage, medicine other therapy, effect quite ...

Mitochondrial factor and cell cytokines play important roles in the incidence of vascular dementia (VD), but their correlations with inflammatory and mitochondrial factors and the role of both in the kidney essence deficiency pattern and phlegm turbidity blocking orifice pattern are not clear. This study was aimed at studying the correlations between the serum mitochondrial factor and cell cyto...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations impair health. The present authors analysed participants in the Boston Early-Onset COPD Study for familial aggregation and propensity for COPD exacerbations. In the present study, two exacerbation outcomes, episodes of cough and phlegm, and frequent exacerbations were analysed with multivariable modelling and generalised estimating equa...

Chloriti Lapis is a kind of mineral medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects purging qi and eliminating phlegm, calming liver relieving convulsion. It can treat stubborn phlegm cementation, cough, asthma, epilepsy, irritability, chest tightness, convulsions, etc. M Modern function scavenging oxygen free radicals, protecting membrane, regulating content excitatory ...

BACKGROUND There is concern that, despite the fall in air pollution levels since the 1950s, there may still be adverse effects at current levels. A study was carried out to investigate the association between air pollution and respiratory symptoms in 23 year old subjects in 1981. METHODS Data on cough, phlegm, and wheeze were available on 11,552 members of the 1958 national birth cohort. Coun...

BACKGROUND The chronic health effects from exposure to ambient air pollution are still unclear. This study primarily aims to examine the relationship between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and respiratory morbidities in Chinese children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 2,203 school children aged 8-10 in three districts with different air pollution levels in Ho...