Prescription Characteristics of Oral Thick Paste in Lingnan Area: An Analysis of Oral Thick Paste Application in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in 2012
GAO Mengxi, LI Xiaobing, XIAN Shaoxiang, et al. Prescription Characteristics of Oral Thick Paste in Lingnan Area: An Analysis of Oral Thick Paste Application in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in 2012[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2014, 55(16): 1380-1382.
GAO Mengxi, LI Xiaobing, XIAN Shaoxiang, et al. Prescription Characteristics of Oral Thick Paste in Lingnan Area: An Analysis of Oral Thick Paste Application in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in 2012[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2014, 55(16): 1380-1382.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2014.16.008.
Objective To research the prescription characteristics of oral thick paste in Lingnan Area according to the application of oral thick paste in the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in2012. Methods Totally 829 prescriptions were obtained in all prescriptions of oral thick paste in our hospital in2012 after removing the non-standard prescriptions. The age
gender
diagnosis
syndromes and prescriptions of patients were analyzed. Results Among patients involved in 829 prescriptions
613( 73. 90%) were female
and544( 65. 62%) were aged under 44. Mestrul diseases( 23. 01%) and digestive diseases( 21. 08%) were the most often treated diseases. Qi deficiency was the major syndrome type. Conclusion The famous-region drugs in Lingnan Area are used in the prescriptions besides supplementing drugs. Furthermore
digestive drugs
desiccating drugs
heat-clearing drugs and qi-moving drugs are commonly used.