Sub-health State Tcm Card Syndrome Distribution And Quality Of Life Research

Sub-health is an unhealthy state between health and disease, it seriously impacts people'slife quality. It's one of the focuses of the medical field because of its high occurrence rate. Thetarget of this research is the sub-healthy people, it researches the clinic symptom, tonguecoating and pulse condition, the distribution of syndrome and the quality of life of them byapplying the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) syndrome questionnaires andepidemiological cross-sectional study. The preliminary results as follows: 1. The major body symptoms of sub-healthy people are: intolerance of hot, intolerance ofcold, fatigue, body ache, spontaneous sweating, bad memorizing ability, dry throat, difficult tofall asleep, sleepy after the meal, fainting feeling, irritable, dry eyes, low quality of sleep, anddreaminess; the major emotional symptoms are: irritable, tense, thoughtfulness; the majorbehaviors in social life: lower working efficiency and lower satisfactory degree to life. Thebody aches mainly happen at the waist, neck and shoulders, joints, two sides of head and innerpart of stomach. The sub-healthy people often feel ached, dull pains and swelling pains at theseparts of body, and they feel better after the massage and worse when it is cold. They tongue ofsub-healthy people is mainly reddened and teeth-printed, the tongue coating is mainly withgreasy tongue fur, and most of the pulse conditions are slippery, fine, deep, taut and rapid. 2. The familiar symptoms of the sub-healthy state take turns as following: disorder ofmeridian-qi, insufficiency of the heart and spleen, internal accumulation of damp-heat,deficiency of the heart-qi the deprellion of the liver generates pathogency fire, the liver-heatand deficiency of the spleen deficiency of the spleen-qi, excess heat syndrome, fluid retentioncaused by hypofunction of the spleen, stagnancy of phlegm and qi, deficiency of functionalactivities of body fluid, stagnation of the liver-qi with deficiency of the spleen, deficiency of qi,heat of the Gallbladder Meridian due to stagnation of gallbladder-qi, deficiency of the kidney-qi,stagnation of the liver-qi, accumulation of cold in the Meridian, stagnation of the liver-qi anddeficiency of the kidney-qi, flaming-up of the liver, deficiency of both qi and yin, and so on. Itshows that the nature of sub-health is deficiency; the main pathological factors are deficiency,stagnation, dampness and heat; and the location is related to heart, spleen and liver. 3. The average integrated score for the life quality of the sub-healthy people is 78, 62.1%of them have gotten the score higher than the average, and 37.9% lower than that. Thesatisfactory degree in four areas for the life quality of the sub-healthy people takes turns fromhigh to low: physiological, social, mental and environmental area. The above-mentioned results are the basis for the intervention scheme of the sub-healthypeople, and the improvement their quality of life. At the same time, it builds a foundation forprobing into the characteristics of basic TCM syndromes and the information collection of fourdiagnostic methods.