Review Study on Ryodoraku Diagnosis Study Methods

Article information

J Korean Med. 2014;35(3):1-14

Publication date (electronic) : 2014 September 30

doi : https://doi.org/10.13048/jkm.14025

Chae-Won Lee ¹, Min-Ho Song ¹, Soo-Jin Yang ¹, Jung-Nam Kwon ²^,

¹Department of Korean Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University

²Department of Korean Internal Medicine, School of Korean Medicine, Pusan National University

Correspondence to: 권정남 (Jung-Nam Kwon), 경상남도 양산시 물금읍 금오로 20 부산대학교 한방병원, Tel: +82-55-360-5956, Fax: +82-55-360-5519, E-mail: jnkwon@pusan.ac.kr

Received 2014 March 05; Revised 2014 July 21; Accepted 2014 July 21.

Abstract

Objectives:

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the achievements of Ryodoraku and to suggest new diagnostic ideas.

Methods:

A search of six Korean databases and one Japanese was performed using the terms such as Ryodoraku, diagnosis, foreigner, etc. and the search results classified and summarized.

Results:

From the initial search results, 21 Korean papers and 26 Japanese papers were selected and classified into 4 categories, that is, classification by pattern, classification by physiological limit, classification by setting various sections using the average Ryodoraku score, and classification by formula.

Conclusions:

Each of the 4 methods has its own benefits; however, it is hard to find disease-specific common characteristics from the Ryodoraku diagnostic values with the methods. Further studies which use the number of Pyesaek and Gyeokcha are necessary.

Keywords: review; Ryodoraku; diagnosis; study method

Fig. 1.

Flowchart of the retrieved papers.

Table 1.

Summary of the Selected Papers

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Fig. 1.

Flowchart of the retrieved papers.

Table 1.

Summary of the Selected Papers

No.	Author	Disease	Evaluation method	Number of cases	Study method*
1	Oh¹¹⁾	N/A	Yangdorak, Questionaire, Clustering algorithm	211	I
2	Kim¹²⁾	Tinnitus	Ryodoraku, Cluster analysis	420	I
3	Marue¹³⁾	N/A	Ryodoraku	N/A	I
4	Fujii¹⁴⁾	Atopic dermatitis	Ryodoraku	1	I
5	Fujii¹⁵⁾	Hyperpiesia	Ryodoraku	1	I
6	Fujii¹⁶⁾	Atopic dermatitis	Ryodoraku	1	I
7	Fujii¹⁷⁾	Headache	Ryodoraku	1	I
8	Iida¹⁸⁾	Psychiatric disorders	Ryodoraku	N/A	I
9	Nagata¹⁹⁾	N/A	Ryodoraku	N/A	I
10	Tada²⁰⁾	Autonimic dysfunction	Ryodoraku	638	I
11	Moon²¹⁾	Acute stroke	Ryodoraku	150	II
12	Lee²²⁾	Low back pain	Ryodoraku	62	II
13	Na²³⁾	Idiopathic facial paralysis	Ryodoraku	135	II
14	Bang²⁴⁾	Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease	UPDRS, H-Y Stage, FOGQ, QSCCII, Yangdorak	50	II
15	Park²⁵⁾	Acne	Yangdorak, D.I.T.I	26	II
16	Lee²⁶⁾	Growth problem	Yangdorak, BMI	58	II
17	Kim²⁷⁾	Climacteric symptom	Yangdorak, Kupperman’s index	37	II
18	Shen²⁸⁾	Respiratory disease	Ryodoraku, pulse analysis	114	II
19	Kim²⁹⁾	Functional dyspepsia	Ryodoraku, electrogastrography, enterotachography	172	II
20	Kang³⁰⁾	Functional dyspepsia	Ryodoraku, Ordinal scale	2	II
21	Heo³¹⁾	N/A	Ryodoraku, Pulmonary function test	49	II
22	Oh³²⁾	Low back pain	Ryodoraku	79	II
23	Oh³³⁾	Chronic low back pain	Ryodoraku, Pearson's correlation test	79	II
24	Jeon³⁴⁾	Acute and chronic urticaria.	Ryodoraku	124	II
25	Kim³⁵⁾	oligomenorrhea	Ryodoraku, BMI, menarche	58	II
26	Kim³⁶⁾	Low back pain	Ryodoraku	206	II
27	Hakuda³⁷⁾	Low back pain	Ryodoraku	131	II
28	Hayasaki³⁸⁾	Pain, insomnia, hypertension, anxiety	Ryodoraku	148	II
29	Katayama³⁹⁾	TMJ arthrosis	Ryodoraku	61	II
30	Shimizu⁴⁰⁾	Acute and chronic TMJ	Ryodoraku	30	II
31	Yamamoto⁴¹⁾	Cervical sprain, stroke	Ryodoraku, MRI	2	II
32	Kushima⁴²⁾	Autonomic gynecologic disease	Ryodoraku	7	II
33	Tsuyama⁴³⁾	enuresis	Ryodoraku	5	II
34	Inada⁴⁴⁾	Knee joint pain	Ryodoraku	561	II
35	Iida⁴⁵⁾	Psychiatric disease	Ryodoraku	N/A	II
36	Mineoka⁴⁶⁾	Gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer	Ryodoraku	6	II
37	Kibi⁴⁷⁾	Bronchial asthma	Ryodoraku	650	II
38	Yamanaka⁴⁸⁾	Low back pain	Ryodoraku	100	II
39	Takeichi⁴⁹⁾	Climacteric symptoms	Ryodoraku, Kupperman index	46	II
40	Goto⁵⁰⁾	Sudden deafness	Ryodoraku, Hearing test, VAS	3	II
41	Kondou⁵¹⁾	Atopic dermatitis	Ryodoraku	2	II
42	Kim⁵²⁾	Functional dyspepsia	Ryodoraku, questionaires, pulse diagnostic appatarus, EGG	64	III
43	Hwang⁵³⁾	Respiratory disease	Ryodoraku, Pulse analysis	103	III
44	Kim⁵⁴⁾	Hyperhidrosis	Ryodoraku	56	III
45	Goto⁵⁵⁾	N/A	Ryodoraku	75	III
46	Ohno⁵⁶⁾	Dysgalactia	Ryodoraku	N/A	III
47	Kobayashi⁵⁷⁾	cancer	Ryodoraku	258	IV

I: Classification by pattern, II: Classification by physiological limit, III: Classification by setting the various sections using the average ryodoraku score, IV: Classification by the formula.