Visual analysis on the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease with external therapies of Chinese medicine-sum-mary of treatment ideas of the main teams
Chen Chenchen
Chen Ruohan
Zhou Juan
Pan Weibing
Guo Yufei
Bai Xinghua
Abstract：Objective To explore the current research status of external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)for gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD),summarize the core treatment ideas of core teams,and provide new ideas for the research and application of Chinese external therapies for GERD.Methods To retrieve and screen relevant literature on external treatments of traditional Chinese medicine for GERD since the establishment of the database from CNKI,VIP,Wanfang,Web of Science,PubMed,Cochrane Library,and Embase databases.Note Express software was used for dupli-cate checking and manual screening,and Cite Space 62.R2 software was applied for the visual analysis of number of the publications,authors,institutions,and keywords.Results In recent years,the number of literature related to the treatment of GERD using traditional Chinese external methods has shown an increasing trend,with Chinese literature being the main focus.Bai Xinghua,Xie Sheng,Chen Chaoming,and Chen Jiande are the core authors,while Beijing University of Chinese Medicine,Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine,Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine,and Johns Hopkins University are the core institutions for publishing articles.The high-frequency keywords are"acupuncture","acupuncture and moxi-bustion","curative effect","liver stagnation and stomach heat",and"traditional Chinese medicine"."Du Vessel"is the core of its theory.Conclusion The external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for GERD has been relatively mature,and further research on Design of experiments and treatment mechanism is needed in the next step.
Keywords：Gastroesophageal reflux diseaseExternal treatments of traditional Chinese medicineAcupuncture and moxibustionCite SpaceVisual analysisResearch status
Publication Date：2025-02-17
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)