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Disease-syndrome combination clinical study of psoriasis: Present status, advantages, and prospects

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Psoriasis is an immune-abnormal, chronic, proliferative skin disease determined by polygenic inheritance and induced by a number of environmental factors. It causes worldwide concern because of its high-prevalence, harmful and incurable characteristics. Over the years, Chinese medicine (CM) treatment of psoriasis has accumulated a wealth of clinical experience. Disease-syndrome combination, which achieves more satisfactory clinical effect, is the basis to highlight the special CM advantages in treating psoriasis. In this paper, we review the advantages of treating psoriasis with the combination of disease and syndrome, analyze the prospects of research on treating psoriasis combining disease with syndrome. We also make a point that there are several key points for the clinical research of combination of disease and syndrome. It can be expected that carrying out clinical research on the combination of disease and syndrome will help improve the clinical efficacy of medical treatment of psoriasis, which will be the main direction of research in the future.

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  1. Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese medicine, Guangzhou, 510120, China

    Chuan-jian Lu  (卢传坚)

  2. Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, China

    Chuan-jian Lu  (卢传坚), Jing-jie Yu  (喻靖杰) & Jing-wen Deng  (邓静文)

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Lu, Cj., Yu, Jj. & Deng, Jw. Disease-syndrome combination clinical study of psoriasis: Present status, advantages, and prospects. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 18, 166–171 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-012-1006-1

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