About the Authors

Shangyue Song

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations The First Clinical Medical College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Co-Construction Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases by Henan & Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Zhenzhen Feng

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The First Clinical Medical College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Co-Construction Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases by Henan & Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Respiratory Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Wenrui Liu

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations The First Clinical Medical College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Co-Construction Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases by Henan & Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Jiansheng Li

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

li_js8@163.com

Affiliations The First Clinical Medical College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Co-Construction Collaborative Innovation Center for Chinese Medicine and Respiratory Diseases by Henan & Education Ministry of P.R. China, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China, Department of Respiratory Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, Henan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

This work was supported by JS L: the Chinese Medicine Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Diseases National the Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation team (ZYYCXTD-C-202206); JS L: the Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation "Hundred and Ten Million" Talent Project - Chief Scientist of Qi-Huang project [(2020) NO. 219]; ZZ F: Establishment of diagnostic criteria of TCM syndromes for two respiratory diseases, including lung cancer (STG-ZYX03-202123). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.