ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2018
Qi-Deficiency Related Increases in Disease Susceptibility Are Potentially Mediated by the Intestinal Microbiota.
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- The correlation between traditional Chinese medicine constitution and prediabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Pooled it
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- Dysbiosis of gut microbiota in children with functional constipation and damp-heat constitution: a cross-sectional multi-omics analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploration of influential factors about deficiency constitution of Traditional Chinese Medicine based on multi-methods.Journal of traditional Chinese medicine = Chung i tsa chih ying wen pan · 2025Article
- The increased tendency for anemia in traditional Chinese medicine deficient body constitution is associated with the gut microbiome.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Comparative Techniques of Acupuncture and Dry Needling Intersecting with Trigger Point Physiology and Diagnostics: A Cross-Discipline Narrative Review.Medical acupuncture · 2023Review
- Brain-bacteria-gut axis and oxidative stress mediated by intestinal mucosal microbiota might be an important mechanism for constipation in mice.3 Biotech · 2023Article
- Alterations in gut microbiota and urine metabolomics in infants with yin-deficiency constitution aged 0-2 years.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Damp-heat constitution influences gut microbiota and urine metabolism of Chinese infants.Heliyon · 2023Article
- The interactions between traditional Chinese medicine and gut microbiota: Global research status and trends.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Qi-deficiency (QX) is thought to promote the body's susceptibility to disease, but the underlying mechanism through which this occurs is not clear. We surveyed the traditional Chinese medicine constitution (TCMC) of healthy college students to identify those that were PH (balanced TCMC constitution) and QX (unbalanced TCMC constitution). We then used high-throughput sequencing of the 16SrRNA V3-4 region in fecal microbiota samples to identify differences between those obtained from PH and QX individuals. Our results demonstrated that the alpha diversity of QX samples was significantly lower than that of PH samples (
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