Clinical Observation on 29 Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS Treated with Zhong Yan No. 2[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2001, (7): 418-420.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2001.07.022.
All patients were treated with Zhong Yan No. 2 Prescription
3 months constituting one course. Indexes of immunologic functions before and after treatment were compared and HIV -Rt - PCR detection was made in 16 cases. Results indicated that in absolute number of CD4
8 cases increased
14 cases decreased and 7 cases did not change; in CD4/CD8 ratio
2 cases increased
one case decreased and 16 cases did not change; Two cases had increase of both CD4 and CD4/CD8 ratio: 4 cases had a decrease of new pterin
11 cases increased and one case no change; 6 cases had a decrease of HIV - Rt - PCR
8 cases increased and 2 cases no change. The total effective rate was 48.28% based on comprehensive assessment of virus