[Correlation between essential elements of Chinese medicine syndrome and the lung function in patients with acute aggravating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi. 2011 Jun; 31(6):760-4.ZZ

RESULTS

Along with the deteriorating of the lung ventilation, the EECMS of disease-position was progressed correspondingly, i.e. in patients with lung function of grade I, disease was positioned mainly on Fei (88.89%); in patients of grade II, on Fei-Shen (25.97%), Fei-Pi (9.09%), and Fei-Gan (3.90%); in those of grade III, on Fei-Shen (51.32%), Fei-Pi (7.89%), Fei-Pi-Shen (19.74%), and Fei-Pi-Shen-Xin (2.63%); in those of grade IV: on Fei-Shen (56.76%), Fei-Pi-Shen (27.03%). The EECMS of disease-property was also progressed, that for excessive syndromes were disposed as: grade I - II, phlegm (23.76%); grade III: phlegm-heat (30.26%), phlegm-stasis (15.79%), and phlegm-retention (9.21%); grade IV: phlegm-stasis (24.32%), phlegm-heat-stasis (29.73%), phlegm-retention-stasis (2.70%); and for deficiency syndromes were arranged as qi-deficiency --> qi-yin deficiency --> qi-yang deficiency --> qi-yin-yang deficiency.