Comparative Study on the Method of Clearing Away Heat and Activating Blood Circulation and the Method of Nourishing Yin and Promoting the Production of Body Fluid in Treatment of Sjogren Syndrome
Wei Qianghua, Fu Hongwei, Jin Yuli, et al. Comparative Study on the Method of Clearing Away Heat and Activating Blood Circulation and the Method of Nourishing Yin and Promoting the Production of Body Fluid in Treatment of Sjogren Syndrome[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2006, (7): 509-511.
Wei Qianghua, Fu Hongwei, Jin Yuli, et al. Comparative Study on the Method of Clearing Away Heat and Activating Blood Circulation and the Method of Nourishing Yin and Promoting the Production of Body Fluid in Treatment of Sjogren Syndrome[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine2006, (7): 509-511.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2006.07.019.
Objective:To observe characteristics of TCM syndromes of sjoigren syndrome and to compare clinical therapeutic effects of the method of clearing away heat and activating blood circulation and the method of nourishing Yin and promoting the production of body fluid on sjogren syndrome.Methods:79 cases were divided into a group of clearing away heat and activating blood circulation (n=38)
a group of nourishing Yin and promoting the production of body fluid (n=22) and a western medicine group(n=19).They were treated for 3 months.Their symptoms
signs and laboratory indexes before and after treatment were compared.Results:Out of the 79 cases
75 cases were yin-deficiency syndrome(94.9%)
55 cases blood stasis(69.6%)
41 cases toxic heat syndrome(51.8%);The clinically total effective rate was 81.5%
68.1% and 78.9% in the group of clearing away heat and activating blood circulation
the group of nourishing Yin and promoting the production of body liquid
and the western medicine group respectively
with no significant difference among the 3 groups(P>0.05).The cumulative scores for dry mouth and dry eyes significantly reduced in the group of clearing away heat and activating blood circulation
but dry mouth and dry eyes in the western medicine group did not significantly improve.Conclusion:Chinese drug and the western medicine have similar therapeutic effect
but Chinese drug for clearing away heat and activating blood circulation can significantly improve dry mouth and dry eyes.