Wang, Xinyu
Sun, Xiaohe
Yang, Lei
Zhang, Yitong
Yang, Tao
Xie, Jiadong
Hu, Kongfa
Funding for this research was provided by:
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (82575255)
The National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 Major Program (2025ZD0544900)
The Frontier Technology Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province (BF2025076)
Article History
Received: 22 July 2025
Accepted: 27 October 2025
First Online: 19 November 2025
Declarations
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: Under signed confidentiality agreements, this study was conducted with formal authorization from the Master of TCM Zhou Zhongying Heritage Studio at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine for the use of anonymized medical records. Since the data collection did not involve any personally identifiable patient information, the institutional ethics committee waived the requirement for individual informed consent. All study procedures were carried out in strict accordance with relevant ethical guidelines and regulations.
: All authors agreed to the publication of the manuscript.
: The authors declare no competing interests.