Chinese Herbal Medicine for Functional Abdominal Pain Syndrome: From Clinical Findings to Basic Understandings

Table 1

Top five most commonly used TCM syndromes for FAPS.

TCM syndrome	Therapeutic principle	Number of subjects diagnosed with the diagnosis	Number of frequency among all the studies	Percentage among the total syndrome ()/top 5 syndrome diagnoses
Liver qi depression; 肝气郁结	Soothe the liver and regulate qi	407	37	69.5%/32.5%
Liver qi invading the stomach; 肝胃不和	Harmonize the liver and stomach	217	24	45.3%/21.1%
Liver depression and spleen deficiency; 肝郁脾虚	Soothe the liver and fortify the spleen	189	21	39.6%/18.4%
Qi stagnation due to cold congealing; 寒凝气滞	Dissipate cold and move qi	167	16	30.2%/14.0%
Spleen-stomach deficiency cold; 脾胃虚寒	Warm the middle and dissipate cold	148	16	30.2%/14.0%