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Table 4 ACUSAR trial: Chinese medicine syndrome diagnoses (n=422)

From: A randomised multicentre trial of acupuncture in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis – trial intervention including physician and treatment characteristics

CM Diagnosis in ACUSAR patients

 

n (%)

Patients with one CM diagnosis

 

117 (27.7)

Patients with two CM diagnoses

 

217 (51.4)

Patients with three CM diagnoses

 

88 (20.9)

CM syndromes

TCM rank 1

TCM diagnoses

 

(n=422 patients)

(n=815 diagnoses)

 

n (%)

n (%)

‘Wind cold’

156 (37.0)

221 (27.1)

‘Wind heat’

155 (36.7)

238 (29.2)

‘Liver heat’

33 (7.8)

105 (12.9)

‘Chronic heat, yin deficiency’

16 (3.8)

37 (4.5)

‘Chronic heat in the lung’

21 (5.0)

55 (6.7)

‘Lung and spleen qi deficiency’

36 (8.5)

132 (16.2)

‘Yang deficiency in kidneys’

5 (1.2)

27 (3.3)

Combined CM syndroms

TCM rank 1 and 2

 

‘Wind cold’ & ‘wind heat in the lung’

74 (24.3)

 

‘Wind heat’ & ‘lung and spleen qi’

38 (12.5)

 

‘Wind cold’ & ‘lung and spleen qi’

47 (15.4)

 

‘Wind heat’ & ‘liver heat’

45 (14.8)

 

Others

101 (33.1)