Clinical observation on liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule in rheumatoid arthritis in the active stage.
This article from Zhou and Zhong is only available in Chinese. It has a pubmed ID of 16613273. The writers of the abstract herald from Guangdong, which is an hospital of traditional Chinese medicine.
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the therapeutic effect of Liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule (LARG) in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at the active stage.
METHODS: Fifty patients were administered orally with Liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule in the treated group, 30 patients were treated with Wangbi granule in the control group. Symptoms, physical signs and relevant laboratory indexes in the 2 groups were observed and compared before treatment and after being treated for 2 months.
RESULTS: The total effective rate and curative-markedly effective rate in the treated groups were superior to those in the control group (P <0.01). The improvement in aspects of integral scoring of symptom and physical signs, including arthragia, tumefaction, dysfunction indexes, morning stiffness and 15m walking time, and laboratory indexes, including blood sedimentation rate, rheumatoid factor, C creative protein, immunoglobin, as well as hemorheology relevant indexes in the treated group after treatment were significantly different to those before treatment and those in the control group (P <0.05 or P <0.01).
CONCLUSION: Liang’s anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule has obvious therapeutic effect on RA at the active stage.
This abstract comes from the March @006 edition of the Chinese journal of integrated traditional and Western medicine Issue number 26(3), start page 248
