[Advances in studies on effect superiorities of traditional Chinese medicine on chronic hepatitis B].

Abstract

Determination of treatment based in pathogenesis obtained through differentiation of symptoms and signs is the characteristic of traditional Chinese medicines' treatment on chronic hepatitis B. There are important effects and special superiorities for traditional Chinese medicines on resisting hepatic fibrosis, improving liver function, protecting liver cells and relieveing the symptoms. The therapeutic effects about the only traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine added western medicine compared with the only western medicine was reviewed in order to explain the traditional Chinese medicine' s therapeutic superiorities.

• Authors: Shao-Li Wang, Nai-Li Yao, Wen-Liang Lv
• Journal: Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica (Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi) Vol. 32 Issue 23 Pg. 2468-70 (Dec 2007) ISSN: 1001-5302 [Print] China
• PMID: 18330233 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Review)

Chemical References

• Antiviral Agents
• Drugs, Chinese Herbal
• Lamivudine

Topics

• Antiviral Agents (therapeutic use)
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Drug Therapy, Combination
• Drugs, Chinese Herbal (therapeutic use)
• Hepatitis B, Chronic (diagnosis, drug therapy)
• Humans
• Lamivudine (therapeutic use)
• Medicine, Chinese Traditional
• Phytotherapy