The Exploration of Disease Pattern, Zheng, for Differentiation of Allergic Rhinitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine Practice

Table 1

All TCM patterns of 23 clinical studies for allergic rhinitis.

Patterns	Number of patients	Percentage
Lung qi deficiency	620	23.95%
Spleen qi deficiency	589	22.75%
Lung yang deficiency pattern with wind-cold assailing the lung	382	14.75%
Phlegm-heat obstructing the lung	232	8.96%
Dampness-phlegm obstructing the lung	210	8.11%
Kidney yang deficiency	185	7.15%
Kidney qi deficiency	104	4.02%
Dual deficiency of the lung-spleen qi	57	2.20%
Dual deficiency of the spleen-kidney qi	54	2.09%
Qi stagnation and blood stasis	46	1.78%
Dual deficiency of the lung-kidney qi	42	1.62%
Lung-kidney yin deficiency	27	1.04%
Lung-spleen yang deficiency	19	0.73%
Dual deficiency of qi and yin of lung	17	0.66%
Blood stasis	5	0.19%
Total	2589