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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine BioMed Central Research article Open Access A complementary method for detecting qi vacuity Ming-Feng Chen*†1,4, Hsi-Ming Yu†2, Shu-Fang Li†3 and Ta-Jung You†2 Address: 1Department of Internal Medicine, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, No.542, Sec 1, Chung-Shang Rd, Changhua City, Taiwan, 2Department of Chinese Medicine, Tzu-Ai General Hospital, Hsilo, Yulin County, Taiwan, 3Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Tainan Municipal Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan and 4Institute of Chinese Medicine Science, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan Email: Ming-Feng Chen* - cmffly@G; Hsi-Ming Yu - ucmcmc@G; Shu-Fang Li - iris@.tw; Ta- Jung You - ytj93@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 8 May 2009 Received: 29 September 2008 Accepted: 8 May 2009 BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2009, 9:12 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-9-12 This article is available from: /1472-6882/9/12 © 2009 Chen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Qi vacuity (QV) is defined by traditional Chinese medicine as a loss of energy in the human body. An objective method for detecting QV was not available until recently, however. The automatic reflective diagnosis system (ARDK) is a device that detects human bio