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ArticleJournal of traditional and complementary medicine2011

Effect of hot-attribute aged ginger tea on chinese medical pulse condition of healthy young humans.

Dan-Ping Chao, Chu-Chang Tyan, Jian-Jung Chen, Ching-Liang Hsieh, Lee-Yan Sheen

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Article in Journal of traditional and complementary medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Dan-Ping ChaoDepartment of Leisure and Recreation Management, China University of Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Chu-Chang TyanDepartment of Chinese Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan.
Jian-Jung ChenDepartment of Chinese Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung Branch, Taichung, Taiwan.
Ching-Liang HsiehDepartment of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science; Acupuncture Research Center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Lee-Yan SheenInstitute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Abstract

Young individuals typically have a dry-heat ( zào rè) constitution and feel overly stimulated. This study observes specialties on the right-bar ( yòu guān) section of the radial-arterial pulse of healthy young subjects, and investigates pulse variations induced by different attribute foods. Chinese medical doctors grouped thirty subjects into heat and non-heat constitutions. Each subject took water, aged ginger tea, and coconut water, well recognized as neutral, hot, and cold drinks, on different visits. The current study observed physiological signals induced by the samples using novel noninvasive sphygmography and a blood pressure monitor. As the baseline bigger percussion wave, dicrotic wave, and area in the sphygmogram of the non-heat constitution subjects, this work suggests that blood vessels of these subjects may be more relaxed than that of the heat constitution ones. Stroke volume increased and pulse pressure decreased in the non-heat constitution subjects after taking aged ginger tea, which may elevate arterial compliance corresponding to maintaining an estimated radial-arterial diameter in our study. However, the percussion wave widened and the valley increased in the heat constitution subjects after taking aged ginger tea. This corresponds to the markedly reduced radial-arterial diameter, indicating tighter blood vessels than the baseline status. Accordingly, this study confirms that selecting foods with attributes opposite to personal constitutions is important for reestablishing a healthy cold-heat balance within the human body. Moreover, novel noninvasive sphygmography may be a useful instrument to classify scientifically the heat personal constitution and the responses to different attribute foods.

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Arterial complianceFood attributePersonal constitutionPulse diagnosisRight-bar sphygmogram

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