Investigate on the Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution and Correlation among Biased Constitutions of College Students in Ningbo
Objective To study the classification of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)constitutions and the correlation among biased constitutions of college students.Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted to evaluate the TCM constitution of college stu-dents.Results The types of constitution were mixed biased constitution,balanced constitution and simple biased constitution.The pro-portion of balanced constitution and phlegm-dampness constitution in male were higher than that in female,the proportion of mixed bi-ased constitution and blood stasis constitution were lower than that in female(P<0.05).There was correlation between the excess syn-drome constitutions and deficiency syndromes constitutions,among all types of constitution and their hybrid constitutions(P<0.05).The strongest correlation were qi-deficiency constitution in deficiency syndromes constitutions and qi stagnation constitution in excess syndrome constitutions.Conclusion The deficiency syndrome constitution was the main in students.There was an obvious correlation among all the mixed constitutions,and the formation of the biased constitutions were closely related to the abnormal function of qi,the qi-deficiency constitution and the qi stagnation constitution had important effects on the deficiency syndrome constitution and the ex-cess syndrome constitution respectively.
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