ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2016
Traditional Chinese Medicine Use among Patients with Psoriasis in Taiwan: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.
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- Efficacy and Key Materials of East Asian Herbal Medicine Combined with Conventional Medicine on Inflammatory Skin Lesion in Patients withPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- A systematic identification of anti-inflammatory active components derived from Mu Dan Pi and their applications in inflammatory bowel disease.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Traditional Chinese medicine as supportive care for the management of liver cancer: Past, present, and future.Genes & diseases · 2020Review
- Complementary Chinese Herbal Medicine Therapy Improves Survival in Patients With Pemphigus: A Retrospective Study From a Taiwan-Based Registry.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2020Article
- Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Patients Diagnosed with Postpartum Depression: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
- Transcriptomic profiles of human HaCaT cells in response to angelica polysaccharide.3 Biotech · 2019Article
- 'Psoriasis 1' reduces psoriasis‑like skin inflammation by inhibiting the VDR‑mediated nuclear NF‑κB and STAT signaling pathways.Molecular medicine reports · 2018Article
- The Extract ofAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Use of Complementary Traditional Chinese Medicines by Adult Cancer Patients in Taiwan: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.Integrative cancer therapies · 2018Article
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Abstract
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long been used for patients with psoriasis. This study aimed to investigate TCM usage in patients with psoriasis. We analyzed a cohort of one million individuals representing the 23 million enrollees randomly selected from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. We identified 28,510 patients newly diagnosed with psoriasis between 2000 and 2010. Among them, 20,084 (70.4%) patients were TCM users. Patients who were female, younger, white-collar workers and lived in urbanized area tended to be TCM users. The median interval between the initial diagnosis of psoriasis to the first TCM consultation was 12 months. More than half (
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