As shown in Table 4, the genotype of DRD2/ANKK1 TaqIA has no relationship with addiction intensity, and if excluded from the model, the interaction of DRD2/ANKK1 TaqIA and phlegm is an important factor in the addiction intensity.
In the COPD group, antibiotic prescribing was not significantly associated with purulence or other respiratory symptoms, but increased phlegm was a significant predictor of antibiotic prescribing in the whole sample (P = 0.04).
Among COPD patients with purulence, 33.3% were prescribed antibiotics (P = 0.5), whereas the corresponding figure in COPD patients with bothersome or very bothersome phlegm was 40.6% (P = 0.2), and phlegm was a significant predictor of antibiotic prescribing in the whole sample (P = 0.04).
A recent study published by Kim et al. explained that dampness-phlegm is an impediment to Qi, energy that circulates in channels called meridians and that causes various symptoms and signs when blocked or disrupted because of its high turbidity, heaviness, stickiness, and downward flowing properties [ 12, 19].
In this research, we also found other TCM pathological factors associate with addiction relapse, and phlegm is not an independent risk factor.
A patient coughs up phlegm, the phlegm is smeared on a microscope slide, and a human looks into the microscope and tries to find the bacterial germs with his or her own eyes.
Also, bloody phlegm is reported as a respiratory outcome in this study, but this variable may not represent health outcomes that are as serious as are usually indicated by this symptom.
It may well be, however, that bile, blood and phlegm were all regarded as hot, since blood and bile were regarded as hot, and we are explicitly told that Philolaus argued that phlegm was hot, although it was typically regarded as cold (Lloyd 1963, 120).
