Efficacy of Lamiophlomis Rotata Capsule in the treatment of type ⅢB prostatitis / 中华男科学杂志

Objective@#To study the therapeutic effect of Lamiophlomis Rotata Capsule (LRC) in the treatment of type ⅢB prostatitis.@*METHODS@#We randomly divided 225 patients with type ⅢB prostatitis into an experimental group (n =125) and a control group (n =120), the former treated orally with LRC at 3 capsules tid while the latter with tamsulosin hydrochloride sustained-release capsules at 0.2 mg qd, both for 4 weeks. We compared the therapeutic effects between the two groups of patients based on the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) obtained before, immediately after and at 4 weeks after medication.@*RESULTS@#A total of 120 patients completed the treatment in the experimental group, which showed remarkable decreases as compared with the baseline in the pain score (5.30 ± 1.23 vs 14.68 ± 1.51, P0.05). The experimental group achieved even markedly lower scores than the controls in the pain symptom (5.30 ± 1.23 vs 13.67 ± 1.49, P<0.05), QoL (6.46 ± 0.93 vs 7.47 ± 0.88, P<0.05) and total NIH-CPSI (17.50 ± 2.77 vs 25.77 ± 2.01, P<0.05) but a higher urination symptoms score than the latter after medication (7.16 ± 1.04 vs 5.68 ± 1.34, P<0.05). At 4 weeks after drug withdrawal, the experimental group also showed significantly lower scores of the pain symptom (7.23 ± 1.03), QoL (6.58 ± 0.87) and total NIH-CPSI (22.18 ± 2.03) than the baseline (all P<0.05) and those in the control group (14.14 ± 0.98, 8.12 ± 0.72 and 26.89 ± 1.67) (all P<0.05). Apart from dizziness in 2 of the patients, who gave up medication halfway, no other obvious adverse reactions were observed during the experiment.@*CONCLUSIONS@#Lamiophlomis Rotata Capsule deserves to be recommended for the treatment of type ⅢB prostatitis for its safety and effectiveness in reducing the pain and improving the life quality of the patients.

Correlation between TCM syndrome types and clinical symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia with chronic prostatitis / 中华男科学杂志

Objective@#To investigate the correlation between the syndrome types of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and clinical symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with chronic prostatitis (BPH-CP).@*METHODS@#We selected 150 cases of BPH-CP in this study and divided them into 7 TCM syndrome types. Using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses, we studied the correlation of each TCM syndrome type with the age, disease course, prostate volume, postvoid residual urine volume (PVR), prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, maximum urinary flow rate (Qmax), and International Prostate Symptoms Score (IPSS).@*RESULTS@#Kidney-yin deficiency was correlated positively with the prostate volume but negatively with Qmax and IPSS; kidney-yang deficiency positively with the age and prostate volume but negatively with IPSS; the damp heat syndrome positively with the PSA level but negatively with the disease course, prostate volume and Qmax; the spleen-qi deficiency syndrome positively with the prostate volume but negatively with the disease course; liver-qi stagnation positively with the disease course but negatively with the age, prostate volume and PVR; the syndrome of qi stagnation and blood stasis positively with the disease course and IPSS but negatively with PVR; the syndrome of lung-heat and qi blockage positively with the age, Qmax and IPSS but negatively with the disease course.@*CONCLUSIONS@#The TCM syndrome types of BPH-CP are closely correlated to their clinical symptoms. The analysis of the clinical objective indexes of BPH-CP can provide some reliable evidence for accurate identification of the TCM syndrome type of the disease.

Clinic study on treatment of 69 cases of primary dysmenorrhea with lamiophlomis rotata capsule / 中华中医药杂志

0.05).Conclusion: Lamiophlomis rotata capsule showed the similar curative effect and safety as Radix Notoginseng capsule did on dysmenorrhea.