Traditional Chinese Medicine Zheng in the Era of Evidence-Based Medicine: A Literature Analysis

Table 2

The top 20 most frequent Disease-Zheng in published studies.

No.	Disease	Zheng	Frequency
1	Diabetes mellitus	Dual deficiency of qi and yin	783
2	Diabetes mellitus	Dual deficiency of yin and yang	247
3	Diabetes mellitus	Blood stasis	237
4	Diabetes mellitus	Phlegm- dampness obstructing the lung	184
5	Diabetes mellitus	Kidney yin deficiency	150
6	Diabetes mellitus	Yin deficiency with exuberant heat	128
7	Diabetes mellitus	Qi deficiency with blood stasis	109
8	Gastritis	Liver qi invading the stomach	286
9	Gastritis	Spleen-stomach dampness-heat	250
10	Gastritis	Spleen-stomach deficiency cold	148
11	Gastritis	Stomach deficiency cold	148
12	Gastritis	Dampness-heat	132
13	Gastritis	Liver qi depression	106
14	Heart failure	Qi deficiency with blood stasis	133
15	Heart failure	Kidney yang deficiency	132
16	Hepatocirrhosis	Liver-kidney yin deficiency	126
17	Hepatocirrhosis	Kidney yin deficiency	126
18	Primary hypertension	Ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang	115
19	Primary hypertension	Yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity	115
20	Hepatocirrhosis	Liver depression and spleen deficiency	110