Table 2.

TCM therapy classification.

Classification	Content
Herbs or herbal extracts	Ginger, cassia bark, green tea or green tea extract, Coptis root, Coptis-cassia bark
Compounds	Compound of nourishing Qi, replenishing Yin, activating blood flow compound of Ginseng-Astragalus
Powder	Yuquan powder, Jinlida Granules, Banxia Xiexin Granules
Decoction	Xiaoke recipe, recipe for clearing stomach and intestines (Gegen Qinlian decoction/Baihu decoction), Huanglian Jiedu decoction, Banxia Xiexin decoction with addition, Gegen Qinlian decoction, Tonifying Qi and strengthening spleen decoction
External treatment	Acupuncture, Tui Na (massage therapy)
Pills	Xiaoke pills, Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Jingui Shenqi pill
Pills or decoction	Liuwei Dihuang Wan (soup)
Basic theories and treatment principles of TCM	External treatment of TCM, replenishing Qi and nourishing Yin diet therapy + conventional treatment, replenishing Qi nourishing Yin method, heat-clearing method, tonifying spleen, and Qi herbs, strengthen spleen and reduce phlegm Chinese medicine, nonreplenishing Qi and nourishing Yin diet therapy + conventional treatment, treating proprietary Chinese medicines and prescriptions from the perspective of the liver, kidney-tonifying and blood-activating TCM compound treatment, three-typed syndrome differentiation (TTSD)
Proprietary Chinese medicines	Tianqi Jiangtang capsules, Jinqi Jiangtang tablets, Qihuang capsules, Jinqi Jiangtang tablets, chromium-containing Chinese medicine Tianmai Xiaoke tablets
Integrated TCM therapies	TCM methods, TCM nutritional therapy, TCM diet therapy + conventional therapy, unspecified TCM therapy, TCM decoction, TCM compound, Chinese patent medicine, multitherapeutic combination