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

Table 4

Relations between severity of symptoms and TCM patterns.

	Lung qi deficiency or spleen qi deficiency^‡	Kidney qi deficiency	𝑃 value
	𝑁=192	𝑁=13
Total score, mean ± SD^†	4.42 ± 2.07	3.15 ± 2.23	0.068
Sneezing, mean ± SD^†	1.39 ± 0.98	1.08 ± 1.19	0.278
Running nose,; mean ± SD^†	1.68 ± 1.02	1.46 ± 1.05	0.453
Stuffiness, mean ± SD^†	1.35 ± 0.89	0.62 ± 0.65	0.004^*

Key: ^∗𝑃 value < 0.05; ^†SD: standard deviation; ^‡combination of “lung qi deficiency” and “dual deficiency of the lung-spleen qi” groups.