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| Analysis on the regularity of acupoints selection for the massage therapy of infantile recurrent respiratory tract infection (Lung Qi Deficiency Syndrome) |
| Hits 2029 Download times 1566 Received:March 20, 2015 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1673-9043.2015.04.04 |
| Key Words
infantile recurrent respiratory tract infections;massage;acupoint selection regularity;data mining |
| Author Name | Affiliation | E-mail | | QUAN Xue-rong | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | WANG Jie | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | SHI Ya-juan | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | | WANG Yan-guo | The First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | wygwbl@163.com |
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| [Objective] To analyze the regularity of acupoints selection in the massage therapy of infantile recurrent respiratory tract infections. [Methods] We electronically searched China Biology Medicine disc(1979-2013),Medical Database of Chinese Academic Journal Full-Text Database(1979-2013),Chinese Scientific and Technological Journal Full-Text Database(1989-2013) and Wanfang Data(1990-2013). On the basis of the collection of the literatures about the treatment of infantile recurrent respiratory tract infections with massage, inputting the massage prescriptions into the Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritence auxiliary platform(V2.0) software, and analyzing the frequency and ratio of the all acupoints and the common acupoints, and the feature of the core acupoint combination by data mining methods of the software, such as compositive association analysis and improved mutual information method.[Results] Sixty-one massage prescriptions for the treatments of infantile RRTI were screened, in which the deficiency was the main accounting for 85.14%, and lung spleen deficiency syndrome appeared 46 times, accounting for 62.16% of the frequency. In these prescriptions, involving 57 acupoints, the spine, Feijing, Pijing, abdomen, Neibagua, Shenjing use higher frequency. The common acupoint combination had 75 in total, including 29 acupoint combination consisted of 2 acupoints, 29 acupoint combination consisted of 3 acupoints, 14 acupoint combination consisted of 4 acupoints, and 3 acupoint combination consisted of 5 acupoints. The core of acupoint combinations in the treatment of RRTI spleen qi deficiency with massage were the spine, Feishu, Pishu, Zusanli, Feijing, Pijing and Shenshu. [Conclusion] Massage in the treatment of lung and spleen deficiency of infantile RRTI, mainly use pediatric massage specific acupoints specially spine, combining with acupuncture and moxibustion of specific acupoints in order to supplement spleen to nourish lung and tonify the kidney and replenish qi. |
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