Poster Sessions - 130 Treatment: 130.096: no. 117BACKGROUND: Parents of children with ASD sought for CAM treatment. (1) The approach in TCM is “holistic” with a philosophical background of balancing “Yin-and-Yang”. The pathophysiological basis aimed to improve “energy” or “body-flow” or “de-Qi”. Depending on the symptoms of ASD, clinical manifestations could be categorized into different TCM syndromes: “Delay in Development; Speech and Language problems; Hearing problems; or Emotion problems”. The sites of the pathological changes had been postulated to be in the ‘brain, heart, spleen, liver and kidney meridian”. In our experience, TCM approach for autism is postulated to be related to lower intelligence due to 'Heart-meridian and Kidney-meridian imbalance” resulting in communication problem and “Liver-meridian imbalance” leading to behavioral problem. (2, 10) OBJECTIVES: We adopted a different approach to assess …postprintThe 9th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Philadelphia, PA., 20-22 May 2010. In Abstract Book of the International Meeting for Autism Research, 2010, p. 574-57
