Alternative Treatment for Asthma: Case Study of Success of Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of Children from Urban Areas with Different Levels of Environmental Pollution
Table 2
Case study 2. Children from the park area using TCM ().
Self-report
1–3 month
4–6 months
7–9 months
9–12 months
Codes (1) No improvement
6 families: 1
5 families: 1
3 families: 1
3 families: 1
(2) Some improvement
10 families: 2
11 families: 2
11 families: 2
9 families: 2
(3) Good improvement
4 families: 3
4 families: 3
4 families: 3
6 families: 3
(4) Stopped with therapy due to success
1 family: 4
1 family: 4
(5) Stopped with therapy due to failure (taken up conventional therapy)
1 family: refused to report
1 family: refused to report
(6) Stopped with therapy due to failure (using nothing or data missing)
