Authors: Arthur Sá Ferreira Agnaldo José Lopes
Publish Date: 2011/11/06
Volume: 17, Issue: 11, Pages: 818-823
Abstract
Chinese medicine practitioners apply the differentiation reasoning for decisionmaking The wide scope of Chinese medicine intervention provides coverage of methods and techniques with applications to primary secondary and tertiary levels of prevention The rapid evolution of mathematical and computational techniques allowed the implementation of several models for pattern differentiation that were tested for several physiologic systems Concurrently it is argued that pattern differentiation might improve the efficacy of either traditional or conventional medical interventions This article reviewed the influence of pattern differentiation into clinical practice organized by medical field general pattern differentiation genitourinary recurrent cystitis cardiovascular coronary heart disease arterial hypertension angina pectoris neurology stroke surgery metabolic diabetes mellitus hepatic cirrhosis gastrointestinal chronic superficial gastritis orthopedic low back pain rheumatoid arthritis cervical spondylosis elbow arthritis oncology gastric mucosal dysplasia lung cancer gynecologic and obstetric manifestations nausea and vomiting The reviewed studies presented achievements that have contributed to the integration of Chinese medicine and evidencebased medicine in the treatment of many mild and severe diseases Target diseases considered as major public health problems were also investigated and the results are promising regarding the possibility to treat guided by pattern differentiation
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