[Analysis of traditional Chinese medicine syndromes in 159 German migraine patients]

Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2017 Jul;42(13):2599-2605. doi: 10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20170523.006.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Data mining method was adopted to collect 159 cases of German migraine patients who live in the TCM-Klinik Bad Kötzting Hospital from January 2013 to March 2015. The general case information was divided into age, gender, profession, characteristics of headache, degree of headache, accompanied symptoms and tongue pulse, and included in corresponding databases. Initial data was standardized and cleaned to get a data form suitable for analysis. SPSS system software was adopted to make a frequency statistics analysis for such variables as gender, age, profession, headache characteristic and accompanied symptoms. The results showed that German migraine cases feature a universality of age, long disease cycle and easy recurrence; And most of the patients were mental workers. There were two common clinical TCM symptoms, namely hyperactivity of liver Yang type and Qi deficiency & phlegm dampness. The common symptoms are forehead tingling, recurrent headache, vomiting and nausea, dark tongue, thin and white fur tongue, wiry pulse and slippery pulse. The disease is related to the pathology of stagnation of Qi, phlegm and blood stasis in liver, spleen, kidney and stomach.

Keywords: Chinese medical syndrome; German crowd; data mining; migraine.

MeSH terms

  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Germany
  • Headache
  • Heart Rate
  • Humans
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional*
  • Migraine Disorders / diagnosis*
  • White People