Korean Studies on Blood Stasis: An Overview

Table 1

The concepts, diseases, and pathology regarding blood stasis in the reference articles.

	Total articles	Review articles	Clinical articles	Preclinical articles
Concept
Stagnant blood within the body	97	16	7	18
Disorder of blood circulation	92	18	3	24
Pathological product	84	12	11	61
Loss of physiological function	67	8	8	51
Pathogenic factor	54	9	8	37
Extravasated blood	36	8	8	19
Foul blood	30	5	2	23
Blood congested in viscera and tissue	27	7	8	13
The blood circulating sluggishly	25	2	2	22
Blood congested in a blood vessel	21	5	3	13
Organ dysfunction	20	4		16
Stagnation of blood flow in local parts	6		1	5
Disease/condition/pathology
Coagulopathy				91
Hyperviscosity				33
Inflammation				23
Hyperlipidemia				21
Oxidant stress				12
Pain				10
Liver injury				10
Traumatic injury			19	9
Neoplasm				9
Ischemic brain injury				9
Atherosclerosis				8
Hypertension				6
Diabetes mellitus				6
Nephropathy				6
Hematoma				2
Genitourinary			11
Cerebrovascular accident			8
Musculoskeletal disorder			4
Etc.			8
Herbal formula
Hyeolbuchukeo-tang (血府逐瘀湯)	12		2	10
Jungseongeohyeol-pharmacopuncture (中性瘀血藥針)	9		5	4
Gyeokhachukeo-tang (膈下逐瘀湯)	6			6
Gyezibokryeong-whan (桂枝茯苓丸)	7		2	5
Dangkwisoo-san (當歸鬚散)	6		1	5
Herb
Angelicae Gigantis Radix	107		19	88
Persicae Semen	99		22	77
Carthami Flos	84		19	65
Paeoniae Radix Rubra	82		20	62
Cnidii Rhizoma	79		14	65
Glycyrrhizae Radix	65		13	52
Cyperi Rhizoma	44		10	34
Corydalis Tuber	40		9	31
Sappan Lignum	35		12	23
Achyranthis Radix	34		9	25
Moutan Cortex Radicis	31		5	26
Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix	30		8	22
Myrrha	29		9	20
Rehmanniae Radix	29		8	21
Linderae Radix	26		7	19