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This study was aimed to prove the scientific method theory through revealing the effect of synchronous treatment of lung and intestine in the treatment of active ulcerative colitis (AUC) patients. A total of 90 cases with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis of heat-toxin syndrome and western medical diagnosis of AUC were randomly divided into the control group, treatment of intestine group, and synchronous treatment of lung and intestine group, with 30 cases in each group. SASP enema (control group), SASP with Bai-Tou-Weng (BTW) decoction and Tiao-Wei Cheng-Qi (TWCQ) decoction enema (treatment of intestine group), SASP with BTW decoction and Liang-Ge-San (LGS) enema (synchronous treatment of lung and intestine group) were given, respectively. The treatment was given once a day and continued for 60 days. Then, clinical therapeutic evaluation was given before and after the treatment with enteroscopy, Th1/Th2 of ulcerative colon tissues was detected. The results showed that the sequence of clinical effect from top to bottom was synchronous treatment of lung and intestine group, treatment of intestine group, control group, with statistical significance (P< 0.05 or P< 0.01). Comparison of Th1/Th2 before and after treatment among each group showed that Th1 (INF-γ, IL-2) was decreased, Th2 (IL-4, IL-5) was increased (P< 0.05), Th1/Th2 was decreased, with statistical significance (P< 0.01). Comparison among each group after treatment showed that the sequence of Th1 from top to bottom was control group, treatment of intestine group, synchronous treatment of lung and intestine group; that of Th2 was synchronous treatment of lung and intestine group, treatment of intestine group, control group; that of Th1/Th2 was control group, treatment of intestine group, synchronous treatment of lung and in-testine group, with statistical significance (P< 0.01). It was concluded that synchronous treatment of lung and intes-tine had guiding significance on anti-inflammatory effect of enema therapy to AUC.
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Objective To observe the intervention effect of different compatibility of aconite and peony in Zhenwu Decoction on experimental nephritis in rats, and explore the connotation of suitable fire and evil fire. Methods Sixty experimental rats were randomly divided into blank group, model group, valsartan group, high aconite and low peony group, aconite and peony equivalent group, low aconite and high peony group. All rats except the blank group were made glomerulonephritis model by tail vein injection of monoclonal antibody 1-22-3. Rats were gived continuous gavage administration (blank group and model group were lavaged with NS) after modeling, and killed 2 weeks later. The morphological change of kidney tissues and serum hs-CRP, TNF-α, IL-6 levels were observed. Results The valsartan group, aconite and peony equivalent group, low aconite and high peony group inhibited the rats mesangial cell proliferation and extracellular matrix expansion significantly, so as the level of hs-CRP, TNF-αand IL-6. The effect of aconite and peony equivalent group was better than low aconite and high peony group, but inferior to valsartan group, while high aconite and low peony group accelerated the progress of the disease. Conclusion The different compatibility of aconite and peony in Zhenwu Decoction has resistance and proinflammatory effect on renal inflammation.
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This article was aimed to discuss the mechanism of lactulose enema therapy to improve efficiency among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients with uremic pruritus (UP) from the intervention of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and micro-inflammation state. A total of 60 cases of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 5, MHD patients with UP were randomly divided into 3 groups according to different intervention methods, which were the control group, loratadine and lactulose group. The integration of kidney disease treatment was adopted in the control group. In the loratadine group, on the basis of the control group medication, oral administration of loratadine, 10 mg/time, once a day, was combined. In the lactulose group, on the basis of the control group medication, lactulose enema, 30 mg/time, twice a day, was combined for 30 days. The pretreatment and posttreatment clinical curative effects were e-valuated among patients from 3 groups. Observation was also made on their itchy visual analogue scale (VAS) and serum PTH, high-sensitivity c-reactive protein (hs-CRP), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin 6 (IL-6) lev-el, respectively. The results showed that there were significant improvements on VAS, PTH and inflammation indexes (i.e., hs-CRP, TNF-α, IL-6) before and after treatment (P< 0.05 or P< 0.01). Compared to the control group, the posttreatment clinical total curative effects were significantly increased in both the loratadine group and lactulose group (P< 0.05); VAS, PTH and inflammation indexes (i.e., hs-CRP, TNF-α, IL-6) were significantly decreased (P< 0.05). There was no statistical difference of indexes mentioned above in the loratadine group and lactulose group. It was concluded that lactulose enema therapy improve PTH and micro-inflammation state among MHD patients with UP. It is one of the mechanisms to relieve skin itching.
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This study was aimed to reveal the relationship of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) syndromes and metastasis, in order to provide new scientific basis for syndrome differentiation, treatment and prognostic assessment, which proved the scientificity and feasibility of internal and external inspection. A total of 60 BAC cases were divid-ed into two groups according to the syndrome of deficiency and excess. Another 30 cases of benign pulmonary nod-ules were simultaneous collected in the physical examination as control group. The quality of life (FACT-L) was scored one day before operation for patients in each group. The thoracoscopic technique was used in the biopsy of targeted tissues, in order to reveal indicators related with metastasis. The results showed that the comparison of FACT-L score of patients from two syndromes of BAC and that of the control group indicated that the score of physi-ological state, social/family condition, emotional condition, functional situation, additional situation and total score of the previous one were obviously higher than the latter one (P < 0.01). And the score of patients in the deficiency syndrome group was higher than that of the excess group with statistical significance (P< 0.01). The comparison be-tween the tumor tissues of patients from two syndromes of BAC and the benign pulmonary nodules showed that the VEGF, MMP-2, MMP-9 of the previous one were higher than the latter one (P< 0.01). The comparison between two syndromes showed that all indexes of the deficiency syndrome were higher than the excess syndrome (P < 0.01). It was concluded that syndromes of BAC was related with metastasis.