Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long been used for patients with psoriasis. This study aimed to investigate TCM usage in patients with psoriasis. We analyzed a cohort of one million individuals representing the 23 million enrollees randomly selected from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. We identified 28,510 patients newly diagnosed with psoriasis between 2000 and 2010. Among them, 20,084 (70.4%) patients were TCM users. Patients who were female, younger, white-collar workers and lived in urbanized area tended to be TCM users. The median interval between the initial diagnosis of psoriasis to the first TCM consultation was 12 months. More than half (N = 11,609; 57.8%) of the TCM users received only Chinese herbal medicine. Win-qing-yin and Bai-xian-pi were the most commonly prescribed Chinese herbal formula and single herb, respectively. The core prescription pattern comprised Mu-dan-pi, Wen-qing-yin, Zi-cao, Bai-xian-pi, and Di-fu-zi. Patients preferred TCM than Western medicine consultations when they had metabolic syndrome, hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, alopecia areata, Crohn's disease, cancer, depression, fatty liver, chronic airway obstruction, sleep disorder, and allergic rhinitis. In conclusion, TCM use is popular among patients with psoriasis in Taiwan. Future clinical trials to investigate its efficacy are warranted.
我覺得Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM) 的EDITOR 超神的,自由度超高, 內容超脫傳統格式八股論述,越來越活潑了。
文章中有一段超有趣的,內文寫: As the saying goes, “one cannot make bricks without straw,” a qualitative or a quantitative data is required before ZHENG differentiation. The acquisition of the applicable data using the appropriate technologies or methods is first step.
中醫自體免疫暨乾眼症客觀量測實驗室 (Traditional Chinese medicine Autoimmune Disease and Dry Eye Syndrome Objective Measurements Lab,AIDDES Lab)致力於結合中醫理論與現代科技,進行前瞻性的研究,探索自體免疫風溼疾病與乾眼症患者的病理機轉及中醫輔助治療。AIDDES實驗室聚焦於透過客觀量測訊號,如中醫體質、舌診、脈診、虹膜、甲褶及心律變異等,加上DNA、RNA、蛋白質體學、口腔微生物菌相等生物醫學指標,深入探討客觀與生物醫學指標與自體免疫疾病的相關性,並進行跨領域的研究,以期建立更科學且精確的診斷與治療方法。