The classification and differentiation between kidney Yang and Yin deficiency syndromes (KDS-YANG and KDS-YIN) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was performed with the approaches of decision tree as well as logistic regression analysis. A clinical epidemiology study on 44 symptoms, 5 tongue signs and 2 pulse signs (TCM diagnostic features) was conducted among 2,765 patients with KDS. Accord...

Background The Yin-Yang is a pivotal concept of traditional East-Asian medicine, however the stability of Yin-Yang temperament in Sasang Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) over time has not been extensively studied. The purpose of this study was to examine the test-retest validity of SPQ with a large number of participants. Methods SPQ test was conducted two times with three months interval in 2...

PURPOSE The present study investigated the validity of personality classification using four pillars theory, a tradition in China and northeastern Asia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four pillars analyses were performed for 148 adults on the basis of their birth year, month, day, and hour. Participants completed two personality tests, the Korean version of Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised-...

BACKGROUND One of the biggest obstacles to progress in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) development in Western countries is the difficulty of applying the traditional concepts to the Western medicinal plants, which are not traditionally described in ancient literature. During recent years, new advances in the field of understanding Yin/Yang aspects from a modern bioscientific point of view ha...

BACKGROUND Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome-specific outcome measures is needed for the evaluation of TCM syndrome-specific therapies. We constructed a Kidney Deficiency Syndrome Questionnaire (KDSQ) for the evaluation of the common TCM syndromes Kidney-Yin Deficiency Syndrome (KDS-Yin) and Kidney-Yang Deficiency Syndrome (KDS-Yang) in middle-aged women with menopausal...

This review deals with the duality of enterococci, which can be illustrated by their yin yang behaviour. The rough nature of this specific group of lactic acid bacteria promotes their dissemination in various environments where they significantly influence the outcome of a certain process. In the technological meaning, enterococci are leading microbes in fermentation processes of traditional fo...

In this issue of Blood, Boulaftali and colleagues have made the important and novel observation that deficiency of the serine protease inhibitor (serpin), PN-1, in platelets results in a prothrombotic state, supporting the role of platelet PN-1 in thrombosis.1 Specifically, Boulaftali et al have initially confirmed previously published studies by Gronke et al indicating that protease nexin-1 (P...

Aim. The objectives of this study were to compare yang-xu, yin-xu, and yu among patients with breast cancer right before, one month after, and three months after receiving target, chemo, or combined therapy. Method. After recruiting 126 patients from 4 hospitals in northern Taiwan, a longitudinal study was carried out with 61 patients receiving chemotherapy, 30 receiving target therapy, and 35 ...

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