The Relation Between Constitutional Types and Indices of Tongue, Pulse,and Ausculative Diagnosis

China Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Non-disease State

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03653182

DMR99-IRB-271

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate indices of tongue diagnosis, ausculative diagnosis, and pulse diagnosis in the determination of institutions.

Full description

Constitution differentiation is important for the prescription of Chinese medicines. In previous studies, researchers usually used constitutional questionnaires to determine constitutions.However, the importance of tongue diagnosis and pulse diagnosis remained unclear. The specific aim of this study is to evaluation indices of tongue diagnosis, auscultative diagnosis, and pulse diagnosis in the determination of constitutions. Meeting of specialists will determine the characteristics for each constitution first. This study plans to recruit 200 volunteers and determine their constitutions by constitutional questionnaires. Tongue manifestations and pulse pressure waveforms will be taken at the same time by standardized instruments. Relations between the indices and each constitution will be determined by multiple linear regression and logistic regression analysis. Then the percentage of importance of a specific index in a specific constitutional type could be determine.

Enrollment: 281 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteers without aged older than 20 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant
• taking any medicine currently
• suffering for acute disease currently

Trial design

281 participants in 9 patient groups

normal

Description:

A normal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Qi deficiency

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Damp heat

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Yang deficiency

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Yin deficiency

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Phlagm

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Blood stasis

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Qi stagnation

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound

Special

Description:

One of an abnormal constitution condition in TCM.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Pulse, tongue image, and voice sound