About the Authors

Tsai-Ju Chien

chientsaiju@gmail.com, silence021@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Branch of Zhong-xing, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Branch of Linsen, Chinese Medicine and Kunming, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Hua Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chung-Hua Hsu, Chia-Yu Liu, Ching-Ju Fang

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Branch of Linsen, Chinese Medicine and Kunming, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Yu Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chung-Hua Hsu, Chia-Yu Liu, Ching-Ju Fang

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Branch of Linsen, Chinese Medicine and Kunming, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Ju Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chung-Hua Hsu, Chia-Yu Liu, Ching-Ju Fang

Affiliation Medical Library, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TJC. Data curation: TJC CYL CJF. Formal analysis: TJC CYL CJF. Funding acquisition: TJC CHH CYL CJF. Investigation: TJC CHH. Methodology: TJC CJF. Project administration: TJC CHH. Resources: TJC CYL CJF. Software: CYL CJF. Supervision: TJC CHH. Validation: TJC. Visualization: TJC CYL CJF. Writing – original draft: TJC CYL CJF. Writing – review & editing: TJC CYL CJF.