ZHENG-Omics Application in ZHENG Classification and Treatment: Chinese Personalized Medicine.

ABSTRACT: With the hope to provide an effective approach for personalized diagnosis and treatment clinically, traditional chinese medicine (TCM) is being paid increasing attention as a complementary and alternative medicine. It performs treatment based on ZHENG (TCM syndrome) classification, which could be identified clinical special phenotypes by symptoms and signs of patients even if they have a different disease. However, it caused controversy because ZHENG classification only depends on observation, knowledge, and clinical experience of TCM practitioners, which lacks objectivity and repeatability. Although researchers and scientists of TCM have done some work with a lot of beneficial methods, the results could not reach satisfactory with the shortcomings of generalizing the entire state of the b

SUBMITTER: Dai J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3638582 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature