Effects of Chinese herbs for cool-moistening and freeing collaterals on serum gastrin and surface electrogastrogram in patients of diabetes mellitus with gastroparesis / 中国中西医结合杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the effect of Chinese herbs (CH) for cool-moistening and freeing collaterals on gastro-dynamic disturbance in patients of diabetes mellitus type 2 with gastroparesis (DM-GP).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Fifty-three patients of DM-GP were enrolled and treated with CH (n = 28) and Cisapride (n = 25) respectively for 4 weeks, the changes of gastrin and electro-gastrogram (EGG) before and after treatment were observed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>After treatment, the EGG improved significantly, showing the rhythm significantly improved, and level of serum gastrin lowered significantly, as compared with those before treatment, the difference was significant (P<0.01), but insignificant difference was found between the two groups. Fifteen patients in each group were followed-up afar stopping medication for 3 months, recurrence occurred in 1 patient of CH treated group, and 2 patients of Cisapride treated group. No adverse reaction was found in the rest patients.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>CH could obviously improve the gastro-intestinal motility and hormones abnormality.</p>