Eighty cases of AIDS patient with coughing were divided into 2 groupson the basis of the severity of the conditiions

in which 58 cases weretreated simply by TCM and 22 cases by integrated traditional withwest-ern medicine.Results showed that in the former group18 cases（31.03%）were clinically cured.7 cases（12.07%）effective and 33 cases（56.90%）ineffective

thetotal effective rate being 43.10%;while forthe lattergroup

the figures were 6（27.27%）

2（9.0%）

14（63.64%）and 36.36% respectively.The efficacy forintegrated medicine group issomewhat inferior to thesimple TCM group

which may be related to itsseverercondition or its condition of complication.