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Chinese herbal medicine has become an increasingly important part of Lianne’s clinical, academic, and scholarly work alongside acupuncture. Her research interests focus on women’s health concerns, including fertility, reproductive medicine, evidence-based practice, historical medical scholarship, prescribing strategies, and the translation of traditional medical knowledge into modern healthcare.
Her work seeks to bridge clinical practice, healthcare research, classical Chinese medicine, and contemporary reproductive medicine through critical analysis, evidence synthesis, and practitioner-oriented scholarship advocacy.
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Conducted research on the use of Chinese herbal medicine in treating and managing threatened miscarriage in hospital inpatient and outpatient settings.
Rather than undertaking the systematic review itself, the project utilised intervention data extracted from one of the most comprehensive systematic reviews available on the topic. Building upon this evidence base, a secondary research process was undertaken to explore the interventions in greater depth.
The research involved both quantitative and qualitative analysis of herbal medicine interventions documented in the included studies.
Areas of investigation included:
The project analysed interventions used by hundreds of medical doctors across studies involving more than 5,000 patients.
Beyond evaluating outcomes, the research explored how practitioners selected, adapted, and applied herbal medicine strategies in large-scale clinical settings. Attention was given to recurring therapeutic approaches, formulation trends, prescribing behaviour, pattern-based treatment strategies, and relationships between traditional diagnostic concepts and contemporary clinical practice.
This work contributed to understanding not only whether Chinese herbal medicine was used for threatened miscarriage, but also how and why specific herbal interventions were chosen and applied across different clinical populations.
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2024–2026
Conducted extensive research on current evidence related to Chinese herbal medicine and fertility, with a specific focus on ovarian reserve enhancement, reproductive ageing, reproductive medicine, and assisted reproductive technologies.
Emphasis was placed on critically evaluating the quality of evidence, interpreting outcome measures, understanding methodological limitations, assessing translational relevance, and examining the relationship between standardised research formulations and personalised herbal medicine prescribing.
This work contributed to professional education, fertility resources, conference activities, clinical practice development, and evidence-informed fertility care through Jien® Plant-Based Healing.
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2025
Contributed a professional research poster examining severe infertility during the Tang Dynasty through thematic analysis of two monograph formulations recorded within the Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang (Emergency Treatment Worth a Thousand in Gold).
The project explored:
The research explored connections between historical prescribing methods and modern fertility practices, and examined how classical medical knowledge might still guide contemporary clinical reasoning. Lianne was later invited by the Association of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine UK to present this work to registrants practising Chinese herbal medicine (2026-2027).
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Lianne’s Chinese herbal medicine research has focused on the intersection of:
Her work aims to integrate traditional Chinese medical knowledge, contemporary healthcare research, reproductive medicine, and personalised evidence-based herbal medicine practice.
