UNLABELLEDOBJECTIVE To analyze the Chinese medicine (CM) syndrome typing features for girls with advanced puberty.

METHODSThe CM symptoms of girls with advanced puberty in the Department of CM, Children's Hospital of Fudan University from March 2008 to March 2011 were recruited and statistically analyzed. The CM syndrome typing features were summed up.

RESULTSYin deficiency induced fire hyperactivity syndrome (174 cases, accounting for 87.0%) occupied the highest ratio in the main syndrome diagnosis, followed by Gan depression transforming into fire syndrome (25 cases, accounting for 12.5%) and the endoretention of damp heat syndrome (1 case, accounting for 0.5%). The mean rank of the 3 syndrome types was sequenced from yin deficiency induced fire hyperactivity syndrome (462.87), Gan depression transforming into fire syndrome (287.22), and the endoretention of damp heat syndrome (146.91). Of them 149 (accounting for 74.5%) girls were diagnosed with both yin deficiency induced fire hyperactivity syndrome and Gan depression transforming into fire syndrome. Yin deficiency induced fire hyperactivity syndrome accompanied with Gan depression transforming into fire syndrome was the most often seen (88 cases, accounting for 44.0%), followed by Gan depression transforming into fire syndrome accompanied with yin deficiency induced fire hyperactivity syndrome (46 cases, accounting for 23.0%).

CONCLUSIONSYin deficiency induced fire hyperactivity syndrome and Gan depression transforming into fire syndrome were the leading patterns of CM syndrome typing for girls with advanced puberty. It must not neglect their combinations in clinical syndrome typing.