About the Authors

Junyue Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Junyue Wang, Claire Shuiqing Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Claire Shuiqing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Junyue Wang, Claire Shuiqing Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Anthony Lin Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jingjie Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Hao Deng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Haiming Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Charlie Changli Xue

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

lcj@gzucm.edu.cn (CL); charlie.xue@rmit.edu.au (CCX)

Affiliations The China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Chuanjian Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

lcj@gzucm.edu.cn (CL); charlie.xue@rmit.edu.au (CCX)

Affiliations The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Joint Lab on Chinese Medicine and Immune Disease Research, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome of Chinese Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.