Research Article

Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis “Yang-Xu Zheng”: Significant Prognostic Predictor for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Figure 1

Hypothesis of pathogenesis of sepsis in traditional Chinese medicine. Solid rectangles denote “pathogen-excess type” TCM Zhengs. Void rectangles denote “human body-deficiency type” TCM Zhengs. Arrows denote possible transition directions and pathways of TCM Zhengs.
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