Parallel Correlations of Chinese Medicine Diagnostics With Functional Blood Chemistry Analyses: Seven Patterns...

This study demonstrates correlations between the diagnostics of Chinese medicine (CM) and evaluations of blood chemistry from a functional allopathic approach. From a conventional allopathic medicine perspective, blood chemistry analyses evaluate numbers that reflect a patient's current pathology. Serum analysis evaluations confirm pathologies such as diabetes, inflammation of the liver, kidney filtration capability, and more. From a Chinese medicine perspective, the same pathologies are termed Kidney yin (( ) and Spleen qi () deficiencies; Liver yin ( ), qi (), or Blood () presentations; and Kidney qi ( ), yin (), or yang () pathologies, respectively. (Capitalization of organs indicates Chinese medicine organ system rather than a literal organ designation.) However, if blood chemistry numbers are evaluated from a functional approach-which examines slightly narrowed or broadened ranges of numbers and relations therein-a future pathology prognosis might be made with regard to the course that metabolism (healthy or pathological) is taking in the body. This correlates with CM's ability to predict future pathology-such as qi, Blood, yin, yang, or essence () imbalances-through 2 major diagnostic techniques: objective assessment of bilateral radial pulses and evaluation of the tongue. Confirmation of these correlations between functional allopathic and CM diagnostics are demonstrated by shared clinical signs and symptoms in 7-pattern comparisons. This article examines 1 pattern only.