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Traditional Chinese medicine clinical experience of the treatment for irritable bowel syndrome

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Institute of Digestive Disease, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 200032, China

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Tang, Zp. Traditional Chinese medicine clinical experience of the treatment for irritable bowel syndrome. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 15, 93–94 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-009-0093-0

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