LIU Zhuoxun,YANG Jinghua,XU Youjia.Essential Issues and Advices on Developing Scales of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution for Children[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(22):2122-2126.
LIU Zhuoxun,YANG Jinghua,XU Youjia.Essential Issues and Advices on Developing Scales of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution for Children[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2022,63(22):2122-2126.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2022.22.006.
Essential Issues and Advices on Developing Scales of Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution for Children
In recent years, great achievements have been made in the standardization of the classification and identification of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Body Constitution for Children, which has broken through the previous level limited to literature summary and expert experience. By analyzing the representative researches on the development of TCM constitution scales for children in recent years, four critical issues need to be dealt with regarding the non-uniform classification and connotation of TCM constitution of children, unclear and not accurate set of the scale items, inappropriate scale evaluation method, and inadequate performance evaluation. Suggestions have been put forward that to use
yin
,
yang
,
qi
, blood and body fluids as the classification basis, to ensure the performance function of the scale by strict pilot survey, to fill out the scale with onsite interview mode, and to improve the constitution-differentiation accuracy by comprehensive analysis of the four examinations, which can provide some reference for further studies on children's TCM constitution.