Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS, the status quo
http://www.51daifu.com date :2009-01-16 10:54 Source: doctors online
Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS, the status quo

If we say that two years ago, "Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS Project" launched mainly as a "Care Project", in view of Western medicine can not accept the anti-viral treatment of patients, then after two years of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, headed by Professor Li Fazhi experts Group members, the mind is more a "Chinese medicine services to human health," sense of mission.
Since October 2004 the project since the start of an on-going two years, 1792 cases of patients involved in clinical efficacy assessment shows: the relative Western medicine, Chinese medicine to alleviate symptoms and improve quality of life, delay the onset time, prolong life, etc., with obvious advantage. AIDS patients with Chinese medicine can feel the same as the normal work and life.

Huangcun water story

Water Huangcun Weishi County, Henan Province, is the province more than 30 high incidence of AIDS, one of the village.

快过年, the villagers said the dog leaves, ready to sell the house a few pigs, something good acquisition. To look at his eyes look, no one would have thought that two years ago in view of his AIDS, because of opportunistic infections such as dermatitis, eyebrows, mustache and goatee are drop, and all weak, let alone a farm work Shimoji.

More than 10 years ago, leaves the dog out and around the village to sell blood, infected with HIV. Until 2000, often without cause illness, also heard some folks have been saying, did not realize the seriousness of the problem. Subsequently, he was checking confirmed receiving antiretroviral treatment, the body did not expect a strong allergic reaction. Are desperate, the 2004 mid-medicine treatment of AIDS in 10 projects implemented in the village, he tried to attend. Traditional Chinese Medicine "magic", brought him a present, "a happy life."

Medical more than 30 years of village doctors刘广岭said that the village more than 2500, the last century 90's, many villagers sold their blood infection, one after another after several years of morbidity and mortality, 17 people died in 2002, 19 people died in 2003. Since then, the acceptance of western medicine, anti-viral treatment, mortality has declined, but the patient八成severe gastrointestinal side effects, and other allergies due to reasons such as not meet anti-virus treatment. "Hair, eyebrows out, broken skin, diarrhea止不住... ... a lot of fields are the shortage of homes, many children没人管, and my health all the time then a few dozen patients a day, sorry ah! "

Turning point occurred in October 2004, Chinese medicine project implementation. Soon, the situation has changed, and more than 100 patients, the apparent ease side effects, dermatitis, diarrhea, fever Well, weak from the strong. Walking down the street, patients and normal people do not see the same.
 

"Cocktail therapy" the plight of

As the country's worst AIDS epidemic one of the provinces, the major epidemic in Henan Province began in the mid-90s.

At that time, paid blood donors in poorer winds southeast of Henan along the prevalence of AIDS caused by blood transmission, involving 18 provincial cities, local villages showed a high concentration of "focal" distribution. Incidence of the crowd of 30-year-old to 50-year-old young adults between the mainly accounted for 83%. As a result of paid blood donors have been more than 10 years, is now in the incidence, mortality peak period, the patient is increasing year by year.

The 21st century, the province's implementation of the West Pharmaceutical antiviral therapy (highly active anti-retroviral, also known as cocktail therapy) and anti-opportunistic infections of medical treatment. However, the challenges attendant increasingly highlighted:

First, "the high cost." From the procurement, distribution to the supervision of medication to the mouth, free treatment for the country would mean a great deal of manpower, material and financial resources consumption.

The second is the "opportunistic infections refractory." The rural poor, people with lowered immunity, an endless stream of patients with opportunistic infections, western medicine can only be against the treatment of a "stop-gap", the grass-roots health organizations overcrowding every day, therefore, tremendous pressure. The third is the "resistance." Cocktail every 3-5 years users will have varying degrees of resistance, re-adjusting the drug program. Each of the adjustments, then the next step to bring about greater difficulty of treatment.
The fourth is "not suited crowd there." Such as liver and kidney dysfunction, allergy, such as population, not receiving antiretroviral treatment, in the face of the only "desperate."

Very quickly, from central to local, from the medical experts to the grass-roots doctors, a kind of Chinese medicine to participate in AIDS treatment since becoming the voice and quickly adopted as the decision-making level. In 2003, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance to start, "Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS pilot project", select the Henan, Hebei, Anhui, Hubei, Guangdong and other 5 provinces, involving 2,500 patients. Among them, only Henan七成accounted for more than 1792 cases of Tatsu, have the advantage of large sample, but also the province's pilot project to assess the value of the most effect.

In August 2004, in accordance with the unified arrangement of the three ministries, after careful preparation, high-profile Chinese medicine treatment of AIDS in Henan Province project in 5 counties and districts of the city of 9 to start.

Chinese medicine, "feeling the stones across the river"

Henan Traditional Chinese Medicine "test the water" to treat AIDS, but also dates back to July 2002.

County epidemic as a result of serious measures in the treatment of difficult to follow up the case, I hope towards Chinese medicine. At that time, Li-chi and other experts rushed to the affected areas, the feelings of the complexity of the Chinese medicine can rule this "new disease"心里没底. Contact a few days more than 60 patients, draw conclusions, analysis, repeated discussions, and then giving into Chinese medicine, 200 cases of patients to choose. In January after the feedback of information to an exciting, patients had significantly alleviate the symptoms of complicated. Although this did not try to continue, but experts on the efficacy of Chinese medicine has been "at the end."

August 2004 national project start to Li Chi-led group of experts stationed in Weishi County in advance of the three high incidence of the village, more than 300 cases of pre-treatment to explore. Henan more than 20 different disciplines of Chinese medicine practitioners in the field of the top experts in almost every day the bubble in the village to experience in 2002 to discuss the pathogenesis, pathology, diagnosis and giving of treatment efficacy observation prescription, one will not do the second, three times ... ... "first when students, later, when the teacher, "a promotion in the province of initial treatment program slowly," came out. " Two months later, pushing the full-scale project.

Subsequently, the pilot of the first-line doctors in the region a wide range of business training, a county-based Chinese medicine hospital, provincial, county, township and village levels to participate in the project implementation system to start running ... ...

Surface treatment of the problem basically solved. However, with the course of the natural extension into an increase in critically ill patients, especially associated with severe diarrhea, after the program has increasingly inadequate. In July 2005, the group rushed to the critically ill patients Shangcai largest Chinese medicine hospital, a series of clinical, three months later, made "泻痢Capsule" effective control rate was 90%.

"Like every day in the war." Henan Traditional Chinese Medicine Authority祖昌Xia said that the beginning of low levels of funding, grants are also low, difficult conditions, "they relied on traditional Chinese medicine悬壶济世sense of mission."

In 2005, the "common symptoms of AIDS in Henan Province points Differential Treatment" completed and the project to promote the county. Henan has been the experience of other provinces and cities nationwide from pilot areas.

Chinese and Western medicine, "efficacy" of other

Belong to two different medical system of Chinese medicine and Western medicine in AIDS treatment evaluation of the issue once again "against."

For medical practitioners, viral load and immune function (CD4 lymphocyte number) is recognized as indicators of efficacy. The faster decline in viral load, CD4 cell increase in the faster the better curative effect.

If we take this as the standard of Chinese medicine's shortcomings are obvious. Henan two years more than 1000 cases of patients with clinical shown that simply using Chinese medicine to increase CD4 cells, reduce the viral load was not obvious, can only slow down the decrease in CD4 cells, the stability of viral load, showed that patients can extend survival time.

But in reality, Chinese medicine in patients infected survival significantly improved the quality of life, especially the effect of AIDS complications of fast and stable "unique advantages."

AIDS as a result of immune deficiency, often accompanied by fever, chest pain, diarrhea, cough, fatigue, spontaneous and symptoms such as swollen lymph nodes, oral ulcers, herpes and other signs, it is difficult to cure, but also very difficult to treat. Western medicine is only symptomatic treatment, often "press played a gourd dipper," a patient has been tortured.