Table 3.

List of metabolites exhibiting different levels in plasma between Dampness phlegm and non-Dampness phlegm.

Retention time (min)	Mass (m/z)	Non-DP	DP	P
ES (+) mode
20.04	1461.2680	6.61 ± 1.43	7.38 ± 2.09	0.009
17.18	1039.724	153.13 ± 44.87	134.44 ± 52.43	0.010
17.15	520.3663	304.62 ± 48.29	282.22 ± 53.29	0.015
20.27	1494.291	18.50 ± 4.16	20.03 ± 4.99	0.022
17.3	502.3353	15.82 ± 5.11	14.21 ± 4.05	0.024
17.46	546.3991	41.14 ± 17.33	35.35 ± 14.02	0.034
19.71	1376.208	20.36 ± 6.07	23.05 ± 8.81	0.037
18.35	269.2497	4.13 ± 1.26	3.66 ± 1.15	0.042
17.69	1043.763	113.36 ± 46.83	96.79 ± 36.09	0.044
21.13	237.1001	26.71 ± 11.22	30.31 ± 10.32	0.046
17.68	1565.1790	4.15 ± 2.49	3.33 ± 1.53	0.047
29.01	195.0539	5.93 ± 1.88	6.57 ± 1.97	0.048
ES (−) mode
17.14	1019.5881	10.58 ± 5.27	8.77 ± 5.09	0.010
0.6	444.6674	1.32 ± 0.95	1.55 ± 0.82	0.013
0.53	740.8311	5.84 ± 2.06	6.63 ± 2.25	0.015
17.5	590.3351	104.35 ± 42.97	88.28 ± 38.06	0.017
29.23	599.3050	2.50 ± 0.82	2.20 ± 0.69	0.015
29.23	288.1364	3.15 ± 1.06	3.47 ± 1.01	0.029
0.53	462.8737	1.23 ± 0.49	1.44 ± 0.59	0.032
17.53	658.3196	4.30 ± 1.33	3.89 ± 0.98	0.038
19.87	961.5879	7.01 ± 3.20	8.21 ± 3.71	0.042

Data are presented as mean normalized peak areas ± SD. The P value was calculated by Mann-Whitney U test.