Traditional East Asian medical pulse diagnosis: a preliminary physiologic investigation.

Background: Toyohari Meridian Therapy (TMT) is a Japanese system of acupuncture that utilizes radial pulse diagnosis to diagnose and guide acupuncture treatment, including ascertaining when the treatment has concluded. The "root" treatment involves manipulation of the body's Qi without penetration of the needle. There has been little research into the physiologic correlates of the changes detected through pulse diagnosis by Traditional East Asian Medicine practitioners practicing TMT.

Reliability of the Eight Guiding Principles and Syndrome Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine Diagnosis of Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis.

Abstract Background: A Chinese medicine (CM) "Syndrome" or "pattern of disharmony" is a diagnostic subcategory of a disease/disorder or symptom, characterized by particular symptoms and signs, and indicative of the etiology and the state of pathogenesis at that point in time. In CM, treatment is aimed at addressing the disease/disorder and the underlying CM Syndrome. A few studies have assessed reliability of CM Syndrome diagnosis according to one of the major CM theories, Zang-Fu theory, but only 1 study has investigated the reliability of diagnosis according to a fundamental theory, that of the Eight Guiding Principles.

Reliability of Chinese medicine diagnostic variables in the examination of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

Background: Chinese medicine (CM) has its own diagnostic indicators that are used as evidence of change in a patient's condition. The majority of studies investigating efficacy of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) have utilized biomedical diagnostic endpoints. For CM clinical diagnostic variables to be incorporated into clinical trial designs, there would need to be evidence that these diagnostic variables are reliable.

Investigating the reliability of Japanese toyohari meridian therapy diagnosis.

Background: Toyohari meridian therapy (TMT) is a Japanese system of acupuncture. Acupoint selection follows diagnosis of the primary and secondary patterns of disharmony (sho) and disturbances in the yang channels. Pulse diagnosis and abdominal palpation diagnosis are the two main diagnostic methods used.

Understanding the reliability of diagnostic variables in a Chinese Medicine examination.

The question of the objectivity of the clinical examination has been raised in relation to Western and non-Western medical systems. Western practitioners are often skeptical about Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), on the basis that its diagnostic variables and subcategories of disease appear subjective and not repeatable. We conducted a study investigating the reproducibility of individual diagnostic observations within three of the four diagnostic methods used in a TCM examination: inspection, palpation, and auscultation.

An investigation into the reliability of Chinese medicine diagnosis according to Eight Guiding Principles and Zang-Fu Theory in Australians with hypercholesterolemia.

Background: Chinese medicine distinguishes itself from Western medicine in the differentiation of diseases according to underlying patterns of disharmony, or Chinese medicine (CM) syndromes. CM has its own clinical endpoints that are used as evidence of change in the body. Yet, relatively little is known about the reliability of CM diagnostic techniques, the final diagnosis of a CM syndrome, or the organizing principles used to reach a CM diagnosis such as the Eight Guiding Principles.

A chinese herbal preparation containing radix salviae miltiorrhizae, radix notoginseng and borneolum syntheticum reduces circulating adhesion molecules.

Circulating adhesion molecules (CAMs), surface proteins expressed in the vascular endothelium, have emerged as risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). CAMs are involved in intercellular communication that are believed to play a role in atherosclerosis. A Chinese medicine, the "Dantonic Pill" (DP) (also known as the "Cardiotonic Pill"), containing three Chinese herbal material medica, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Radix Notoginseng and Borneolum Syntheticum, has been used in China for the prevention and management of CVD.