以中醫介入彰化地區國小幼童生長之前瞻性研究

The Pilot Study about Chinese Medicine for Growth of Juniors in Mid-Taiwan

陳昭勳(Chao-Hsun Chen) ； 胡憶文(Yi-Wen Hu) ； 賴英秀(Ing-Shiow Lay) ； 何宗融(Tsung-Jung Ho)

《中醫內科醫學雜誌》 9卷1期 (2011/06) Pp. 41-47

https://doi.org/10.7102/JTCIM.201106.0041

摘要

Background: Growth of juniors is important issue.Purposed: Our aim is observation on therapeutic effects of Chinese medicine for growth of juniors.Methodology: Subjects of the experimental group were recruited from the particular clinic of junior's growth of a public hospital and treated with Chinese medicine. The subjects of control group were the sixth grade of Fu-De Elementary School and do not accept else therapy. The measure time was from December, 2009 to March, 2010. Results: There were 6 girls on experimental group. The mean age was 11.49±1.69 years old. Therapeutic days was 83.83±42.86 days. The tall was 141.83+8.52cm before treatment and 144.90±8.49cm after treatment. The height increased 3.07cm;The control group had 21 girls. The mean age was 11.15±0.28 years old. The tall was 152.73+6.84cm on December 2009, and 154.04±6.89cm on March 2010. The height increased 1.31cm. The result was compared with two groups by paired samples t test of SAS software had significant difference (p＜0.05).Conclusion: It showed that Chinese medicine had significant effect on growth of Juniors (p＜0.05). But we can not exclude the situation of catch-up growth in this article.

關鍵字

長高 ； 中醫 ； 青春期

並列摘要

Background: Growth of juniors is important issue.Purposed: Our aim is observation on therapeutic effects of Chinese medicine for growth of juniors.Methodology: Subjects of the experimental group were recruited from the particular clinic of junior's growth of a public hospital and treated with Chinese medicine. The subjects of control group were the sixth grade of Fu-De Elementary School and do not accept else therapy. The measure time was from December, 2009 to March, 2010. Results: There were 6 girls on experimental group. The mean age was 11.49±1.69 years old. Therapeutic days was 83.83±42.86 days. The tall was 141.83+8.52cm before treatment and 144.90±8.49cm after treatment. The height increased 3.07cm;The control group had 21 girls. The mean age was 11.15±0.28 years old. The tall was 152.73+6.84cm on December 2009, and 154.04±6.89cm on March 2010. The height increased 1.31cm. The result was compared with two groups by paired samples t test of SAS software had significant difference (p＜0.05).Conclusion: It showed that Chinese medicine had significant effect on growth of Juniors (p＜0.05). But we can not exclude the situation of catch-up growth in this article.

並列關鍵字

growth ； Chinese Medicine ； puberty