Research Article
Clinical Practice Pattern of Korean Medicine Doctors in Idiopathic Short Stature Treatment: A Survey Study
Table 4
Details of interventions for idiopathic short stature.
| | Intervention | n (%) |
| | Purpose of herbal prescription (n = 58) | Tonifying the spleen (補脾) | 30 (51.7) | | Tonifying the spleen and the kidney (補脾腎) | 11 (19.0) | | Tonifying the kidney (補腎) | 7 (12.1) | | Tonifying the liver and the kidney (補肝腎) | 6 (10.3) | | Others | 4 (6.8) |
| | Frequently used herb (n = 55, no response = 3) | Acanthopanacis cortex (五加皮) | 23 (41.8) | | Astragali Radix (黃芪) | 23 (41.8) | | Cervi parvum cornu (鹿茸) | 21 (38.2) | | Rehmanniae Radix preparata (熟地黃) | 18 (32.7) | | Atractylodis rhizoma alba (白朮) | 16 (29.1) | | Dipsaci Radix (續斷) | 14 (25.5) | | Angelicae gigantis Radix (當歸) | 12 (21.8) | | Ginseng Radix (人蔘) | 12 (21.8) | | Achyranthis Radix (牛膝) | 9 (16.4) | | Eucommiae cortex (杜仲) | 9 (16.4) | | Citri unshius pericarpium (陳皮) | 8 (14.5) | | Dioscoreae rhizoma (山藥) | 7 (12.7) | | Corni fructus (山茱萸) | 6 (10.9) |
| | Frequently used acupuncture points (n = 58) | ST36 (zusanli) | 48 (82.8) | | GB34 (yanglingquan) | 36 (62.1) | | SP6 (sanyinjiao) | 32 (55.2) | | EX-LE5 (xiyan) | 28 (48.3) | | LI4 (hegu) | 26 (44.8) | | BL60 (kunlun) | 16 (27.6) | | KI3 (taixi) | 15 (25.9) | | KI4 (dazhong) | 12 (20.7) | | GB39 (xuanzhong) | 11 (19.0) | | GV20 (baihui) | 9 (15.5) | | CV12 (zhongwan) | 3 (5.2) |
|
|
