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 3

Case study 3. Children from the highway area using conventional medicine (𝑛=11).

Self-report	1–3 month	4–6 months	7–9 months	9–12 months
Codes; (1) No improvement	2 families: 1	1 family: 1	1 family: 1	5 families: 2
(2) Some improvement	5 families: 2	5 families: 2	5 families: 2	6 families: 3
(3) Good improvement	4 families: 3	4 families: 3	4 families: 3
(4) Stopped with therapy due to success
(5) Stopped with therapy due to failure (taken up conventional therapy)
(6) Stopped with therapy due to failure (using nothing or data missing)