| Literature DB >> 31124203 |
Yuexia Ma1,2,3, Ming Chen4, Yali Guo1, Jian Liu1, Weitao Chen5, Mengyue Guan1, Yue Wang1, Xuehui Zhao1, Xu Wang1, Haoyuan Li1, Lingxin Meng1, Yulong Wen1, Yuguang Wang1.
Abstract
The present review aimed to summarize the effectiveness and features of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for the treatment of infectious diseases and to discuss the limitation of the development of TCM. The personalized medicine with TCM exerts a curative effect on viral and bacterial infectious diseases with unique advantages on the improvement of clinical manifestation, pathogen inhibition, and organ recovery during severe and drug-resistant infection. The deficiency of personalized medicine with TCM lies in that the current research design of TCM primarily focuses on the study of the effective components and material basis of Chinese herbs at the cellular, molecular, and genetic level, while ignoring the guidance of the TCM syndrome differentiation theory, which is the core concept of individualized treatment. Personalized medicine with TCM has a broad prospective for infectious diseases due to the specific efficacy and advantages. While the curative effect of individualized treatment with TCM cannot be excluded from the TCM syndrome differentiation theory, the study of personalized medicine with TCM for infectious diseases urgently requires a unified standardization of the clinical syndrome differentiation and the evolution rule of infectious diseases by TCM theory.Entities:
Keywords: Personalized medicine; infectious disease; review; syndrome differentiation; traditional Chinese medicine
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31124203 DOI： 10.1111/apm.12928
Source DB: PubMed Journal: APMIS ISSN： 0903-4641 Impact factor: 3.205