What's in a name? A systematic review of the nomenclature of Chinese medical formulae
What's in a name? A systematic review of the nomenclature of Chinese medical formulae
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DOI：
10.1142/s0192415x02000430
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发表时间：
2002-01-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Ernst, E
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作者：
Park, J;Park, HJ;Ernst, E
在韩国和日本等其他远东国家，传统中医（TCM）也进行了一定程度的修改。这三个国家的研究人员似乎对同一种中药配方使用了不同的英文名称。缺乏汉字知识注定会增加这种混乱。为了系统地调查这一问题，我们对所有发表在《美国中医杂志》（AJCM， 1997- 2001年3月）上的中药方剂进行了评价。此外，PubMed（1966年至2001年6月）的检索使用的关键词根据语言、位置和连字符的数量以及每个中文字符对应的英文首字母的大小写来区分。在《AJCM》上发表的45篇报道中，共鉴定出54个中药方剂。32个只用中文命名（23篇报道）；日语6篇（6篇报道）；韩文5篇（5篇报道）。10个配方用日文命名，括号内为中文名称（10份报告）；一份中文报告，日文名称括号内（一份报告）。通过计算机文献检索，通过语言、地点和连字符数量区分的关键词检索到不同数量的研究论文。这种混淆可能会阻碍中医药评价的进展。为了提高中药方剂研究的效率，需要对术语进行规范化。
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been modified to some extent in other Far Eastern countries such as Korea and Japan. Researchers of each of the three countries seem to use different English names for the same Chinese medicinal formulae. Lack of knowledge of the Chinese characters is destined to increase this confusion. In order to investigate this matter systematically, all investigations of Chinese medicine formulae published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine (AJCM, 1997-March 200 1) were evaluated. Moreover, PubMed (1966-June 2001) was searched using keywords differentiated by language, location and number of hyphens, and upper-or lower-case of the first letter of the English equivalent of each Chinese character. Fifty-four formulae of TCM were identified in 45 reports published in AJCM. Thirty-two were named in Chinese only (23 reports); six in Japanese (six reports); and five in Korean (five reports). Ten formulae were named in Japanese with the Chinese name in brackets (ten reports); and one in Chinese with the Japanese name in brackets (one report). By computerized literature search, different numbers of research papers were retrieved by using keywords differentiated by language, location and number of hyphens. Such confusion may prevent progress in the evaluation of TCM. To increase the efficiency of studies on Chinese medical formulae, standardization of terminology is required.