摘要
To seek an effective treatment to delay the development of chronic renal failure, the au-thors studied the effects of a therapy integrating Chinese and Western medicine with rhubarb as the maindrug. Sixty hospitalized patients were divided into an integrated Chinese and Western medicine therapygroup (test group, 30 cases) and a Western therapy group (control group, 30 cases) . There were no dif-ferences in age, sex, underlying diseases and renal function of the two groups. The patients in bothgroups were treated for three weeks as a therapy course. The results show the levels of blood urea nitro-gen and serum creatinine after treatment were higher than before treatment in the control group, but lowerin the test group. The value of reciprocal coefficient (slope or b value) relationship between inverseserum creatinine slope and time in the control group was -1.198 3. 931, but the slope(b value) in thetest group was 0. 125 2. 252. There were no side-effects to be found in either group. The study suggeststhat integrated Chinese and Western medicine using rhubarb as a main drug can delay renal function dete-rioration and improve renal function in some cases.
To seek an effective treatment to delay the development of chronic renal failure, the au-thors studied the effects of a therapy integrating Chinese and Western medicine with rhubarb as the maindrug. Sixty hospitalized patients were divided into an integrated Chinese and Western medicine therapygroup (test group, 30 cases) and a Western therapy group (control group, 30 cases) . There were no dif-ferences in age, sex, underlying diseases and renal function of the two groups. The patients in bothgroups were treated for three weeks as a therapy course. The results show the levels of blood urea nitro-gen and serum creatinine after treatment were higher than before treatment in the control group, but lowerin the test group. The value of reciprocal coefficient (slope or b value) relationship between inverseserum creatinine slope and time in the control group was -1.198 3. 931, but the slope(b value) in thetest group was 0. 125 2. 252. There were no side-effects to be found in either group. The study suggeststhat integrated Chinese and Western medicine using rhubarb as a main drug can delay renal function dete-rioration and improve renal function in some cases.
