As a chronic disease that seriously endangers public health, the number of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in China has increased in recent years. There is great potentiality to integrate traditional Chinese a...As a chronic disease that seriously endangers public health, the number of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in China has increased in recent years. There is great potentiality to integrate traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapies to prevent and treat CHD in clinical practice. However, most of the current integrated therapies still lack sufficient high-quality evidence, and the key links in how to apply are unclear. It is urgent to optimize them through evidence-based research to further improve the effectiveness. Therefore, we propose strategies to conduct evidence-based optimization of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapies in prevention and treatment of progressive cardiovascular diseases. These are integrated clinical trial design, attention to the key links of taking effect, combination of clinical and basic research. Based on the strategies, we started the national key research and development project "Evidence-based optimization research of TCM therapies in prevention and treatment of CHD (angina pectoris - myocardial infarction - heart failure)", which is expected to be a new paradigm in the field.展开更多
Objective:To understand the methods and progress of integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases,and to provide ideas for integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment ...Objective:To understand the methods and progress of integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases,and to provide ideas for integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases.Methods:Searching the CNKI,Wanfang and Weipu databases with"integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine","hematological disease",and"traditional Chinese medicine"as the key words,for related literature of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological disease,screening and analyzing the literature.Results:After decades of development,the methods of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases have been developed from initial exploration to clinical practice,from wide application to recent progress.The combination methods include the combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine,as well as the combination of Western medicine and non-medicine of traditional Chinese medicine.The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine includes the combination of Chinese and Western medicine,sequential and alternate methods,etc.The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases has significant effects in enhancing efficiency and reducing toxicity,improving the quality of life and prolonging the survival period.Conclusion:The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine has obvious curative effect,high safety and various methods in treating hematologic diseases.展开更多
Objective: To treat the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with coronary heart disease, to explore the clinical efficacy and mechanism of conventional western medicine combined with Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue...Objective: To treat the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with coronary heart disease, to explore the clinical efficacy and mechanism of conventional western medicine combined with Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue herbs, and to detect the level of serum fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF-21) and Ghrelin. Changes and significance. Methods: A randomized control method was used to collect 100 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with coronary heart disease who were diagnosed and treated in our hospital from March 2015 to March 2018.They were randomly divided into two groups according to the random number table method: 50 patients separately. The patients in the control group were treated with conventional western medicine and basic treatment;the observation group was treated with the addition and subtraction of traditional Chinese medicine formulas on the basis of the control group;the clinical curative effect was evaluated after two months of treatment, and the treatment efficiency and scores of traditional Chinese medicine symptoms were observed in the two groups. Basic laboratory indicators were improved, and serum levels of FGF-21 and Ghrelin in patients were measured and the difference between the results of the tests was compared with the condition and efficacy. Results: After treatment, the total effective rate of the observation group (86.0%) was significantly higher than that of the control group (68.0%) (P<0.05), suggesting that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment can significantly improve the clinical efficacy;before treatment,there is no difference between the two groups of Chinese medicine symptom scores (P>0.05). After treatment, the symptom scores of the two groups were significantly improved after treatment (P<0.05). The observation group was better among the two groups (P<0.05).After treatment, the basic biochemical indicators were improved. The observation group was better than the control group (P<0.05);Serum FGF-21 levels were significantly lower in both groups after treatment (P<0.05), and Ghrelin levels were significantly increased. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion: The use of conventional western medicine in combination with Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue Chinese medicine for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with coronary heart disease can significantly improve the clinical efficacy, effectively promote the improvement of symptoms, and can be used in clinical work through serum FGF-21, Ghrelin levels combined detection of the value of Abnormal changes to predict the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus with coronary heart disease severity and treatment effect should be widely used in clinical diagnosis and treatment.展开更多
Dry eye is now one of the most common superficial disorders in ophthalmology at home and abroad, and more and more people attach importance to the study. The ideal approach for treatment of dry eye is to normalize the...Dry eye is now one of the most common superficial disorders in ophthalmology at home and abroad, and more and more people attach importance to the study. The ideal approach for treatment of dry eye is to normalize the condition by rebuilding the superficial circumstance of the eye, and to make tear film work as well as possible so as to relieve the irritating symptoms in the eye. The authors are making a comprehensive discussion on the methods and curative effects of treating dry eye by traditional Chinese medicine and by integrative Chinese and Western medicine in recent years, so as to introduce the distinctive features of the traditional Chinese medicine and integrative Chinese and Western medicine in this field.展开更多
Diabetic peripheral vascular disease(PVD)is one of the common chronic complications of diabetes.The main clinical manifestations of PVD are numbness and coldness of the limbs,resting pain,intermittent claudication,and...Diabetic peripheral vascular disease(PVD)is one of the common chronic complications of diabetes.The main clinical manifestations of PVD are numbness and coldness of the limbs,resting pain,intermittent claudication,and other symptoms.The combined treatment involving Chinese and Western medicine for PVD has various clinical methods and definite curative effects.It is worthy of in-depth clinical research and application.展开更多
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine-Western Medicine(TCM-WM) in the treatment of acute onset pulmonary heart disease(PHD).METHODS: A total of 240 patients met the inclusion c...OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine-Western Medicine(TCM-WM) in the treatment of acute onset pulmonary heart disease(PHD).METHODS: A total of 240 patients met the inclusion criteria and were enrolled. These inpatients were divided into group A(treatment group) and B(control group) in order of admission according to the principles of randomization and control. The research was performed simultaneously in three hospitals. Two groups were given basic treatment that included: controlled oxygen therapy, active and effective anti-infection, maintaining airway patency,correcting O_2 deficiency and CO_2 retention, correcting acid-base imbalance and electrolyte disturbance, reducing pulmonary hypertension and treating right heart failure, nutritional support and treatment of complications. Group A was given basic treatment and integrated Traditional Chinese Medi-cine(TCM) differentiating therapy; group B was given basic therapy and a placebo that was similar in appearance and taste to TCM medicinal broth of pharmaceutical preparations, provided by Yibin Pharmaceutical Company(Yibin, China, Wuliangye Group).RESULTS: The mortality in the treatment group decreased by 4.98% compared with the control group. The treatment group reported improved ventilation, corrected hypoxemia, improved nutritional status and promoted digestive functions. It also significantly improved the patient's self-life skills, improved the patient's quality of life and could shorten the length of hospital stay.CONCLUSION: Comprehensive integrated TCMWM treatment showed good clinical efficacy toward the acute onset period of PHD patients.展开更多
In the 1970's, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis (PCRS) was the main method in integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM) in treating acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It decr...In the 1970's, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis (PCRS) was the main method in integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM) in treating acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It decreased the case fatality rate of AMI from 30% to 13%-16% as compared with that treated by simple Western internal medical conservative treatment. Later in the 1980's, such therapeutic approaches as infarction related arterial revascularization, thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) became the most effective means in treating AMI, which could re-canalize the obstructed coronary vessels, recover the blood perfusion of myocardium, and thus to save the ischemic myocardium, diminute the infarcted size, preserve the ventricular function and improve the patient's near and long-term prognosis, with the fatality rate reduced by 5%-7%. Hence, the some-time superiority of ICWM in treating AMI was overshadowed with no more luster left.展开更多
In 2006, the Hepatology Committee of Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Liver Fibrosis with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine....In 2006, the Hepatology Committee of Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Liver Fibrosis with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine." In recent years, the fields of Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and integrative medicine have made rapid advances in basic and clinical research into chronic liver disease, and accumulated new evidence for the prevention and treatment of hepatic fibrosis. Therefore, in order to meet clinical needs, liver disease experts of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine were united to revise the previous guidelines in order to help physicians make correct and reasonable decisions in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatic fibrosis.展开更多
Objective: To analyze the clinical evaluation of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients receiving integrated Chinese and Western medicine therapy. Methods: One hundred and twenty patients were enrolled and randomly al...Objective: To analyze the clinical evaluation of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients receiving integrated Chinese and Western medicine therapy. Methods: One hundred and twenty patients were enrolled and randomly allocated to a control group or treatment group. Patients in the two groups received placebo and Bushen Huoxue Granule (补肾活血颗粒, BHG), respectively. Both groups received baseline levodopa and benserazide (Madopar). The effects of treatment were assessed monthly during the 9-month treatment. Means of evaluation included Unified PD Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores (Ⅱ and Ⅲ), sleep scale score, 10 m turn back test (getting up time, 10 m × 2 times, and turning time), timing motor test (TMT)-Ieft and TMT-right, which were treated as the dependent variables; and age, sex, duration of PD, Hoehn and Yahr (H-Y) stage and Madopar dosage of admitted PD patients were as the independent variables. Multiple linear regression was used to analyze these factors. Results: H-Y stage significantly affected UPDRSⅡ score, UPDRS Ⅲ score, and getting up time (P〈0.01). Madopar dosage and H-Y stage significantly affected the 10 m × 2 times (P〈0.05 or P〈0.01). Madopar dosage significantly affected the sleep scale score (P〈0.05). There were also significant correlations between age and TMT-left or TMT-right (P〈0.01), and duration of PD and TMT-right (P〈0.05). Conclusions: The six assessed means of clinical evaluation (including UPDRS Ⅱ and UPDRS Ⅲ scores, sleep scale score, getting up time, 10 m × 2 times, and turning time) are sensitive indexes in all PD patients. H-Y stage and Madopar dosage are the major factors influencing means of clinical assessment of PD treatment.展开更多
Objective: To explore the treatment on infantile intractable diarrhea with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine. Methods: Paired control method was used to study 54 cases of infantile intractable diarrh...Objective: To explore the treatment on infantile intractable diarrhea with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine. Methods: Paired control method was used to study 54 cases of infantile intractable diarrhea patients, who were randomly divided into the treated group and the control group (western medicine treated group). The treated group was further subdivided into two syndrome-types: Spleen deficiency diarrhea type and Spleen-Kidney Yang deficiency diarrhea type, and modified Shenling Baizhu powder (参苓白术散) and Sijunzi decoction (四君子汤) with modified Sishen pill (四神丸) were used for them respectively, while the control group was given only the conventional western drugs. At the same time, immunoglobulin (IG) and T lymphocyte transformation rate (TLTR) were observed. Results: Before treatment, IgG, IgA and TLTR of all the patients in both groups were lowered; after treatment, all of them improved, and the improvement of the treated group was more significant than that of control group (P<0.01). In the treated group, the cure rate and total effective rate were significantly higher than that of control group (P<0.01). Conclusion: Using integrated traditional Chinese and western method, the immune function of the patients were enhanced, and the function of Spleen-Stomach was recuperated, therefore satisfactory results were reached.展开更多
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most popular diseases that cause menstrual dysfunction and infertility in women. The present paper is a brief retrospection on the progress in treatment of PCOS cause...Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most popular diseases that cause menstrual dysfunction and infertility in women. The present paper is a brief retrospection on the progress in treatment of PCOS caused infertility with integrative Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM). It can be seen from these materials that using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) recipes formulated by Shen-replenishing herbs or acupuncture to reinforce Gan-Shen, regulate Chong-Ren Channels in treating PCOS, stable clinical efficacy could be obtained, with less adverse reaction, though the effect initiated somewhat late. Whereas, when Shen-replenishing recipe and acupuncture are combined with hormone or ovulation promoting drugs of Western medicine, the above-mentioned shortcomings would be overcome. So, this combined therapy is frequently used in clinical practice.展开更多
文摘As a chronic disease that seriously endangers public health, the number of coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in China has increased in recent years. There is great potentiality to integrate traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapies to prevent and treat CHD in clinical practice. However, most of the current integrated therapies still lack sufficient high-quality evidence, and the key links in how to apply are unclear. It is urgent to optimize them through evidence-based research to further improve the effectiveness. Therefore, we propose strategies to conduct evidence-based optimization of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapies in prevention and treatment of progressive cardiovascular diseases. These are integrated clinical trial design, attention to the key links of taking effect, combination of clinical and basic research. Based on the strategies, we started the national key research and development project "Evidence-based optimization research of TCM therapies in prevention and treatment of CHD (angina pectoris - myocardial infarction - heart failure)", which is expected to be a new paradigm in the field.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81673821,No.81774142)Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund(No.ZZ10-016)。
文摘Objective:To understand the methods and progress of integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases,and to provide ideas for integrated Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases.Methods:Searching the CNKI,Wanfang and Weipu databases with"integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine","hematological disease",and"traditional Chinese medicine"as the key words,for related literature of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological disease,screening and analyzing the literature.Results:After decades of development,the methods of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases have been developed from initial exploration to clinical practice,from wide application to recent progress.The combination methods include the combination of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine,as well as the combination of Western medicine and non-medicine of traditional Chinese medicine.The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine includes the combination of Chinese and Western medicine,sequential and alternate methods,etc.The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of hematological diseases has significant effects in enhancing efficiency and reducing toxicity,improving the quality of life and prolonging the survival period.Conclusion:The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine has obvious curative effect,high safety and various methods in treating hematologic diseases.
文摘Objective: To treat the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with coronary heart disease, to explore the clinical efficacy and mechanism of conventional western medicine combined with Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue herbs, and to detect the level of serum fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF-21) and Ghrelin. Changes and significance. Methods: A randomized control method was used to collect 100 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with coronary heart disease who were diagnosed and treated in our hospital from March 2015 to March 2018.They were randomly divided into two groups according to the random number table method: 50 patients separately. The patients in the control group were treated with conventional western medicine and basic treatment;the observation group was treated with the addition and subtraction of traditional Chinese medicine formulas on the basis of the control group;the clinical curative effect was evaluated after two months of treatment, and the treatment efficiency and scores of traditional Chinese medicine symptoms were observed in the two groups. Basic laboratory indicators were improved, and serum levels of FGF-21 and Ghrelin in patients were measured and the difference between the results of the tests was compared with the condition and efficacy. Results: After treatment, the total effective rate of the observation group (86.0%) was significantly higher than that of the control group (68.0%) (P<0.05), suggesting that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment can significantly improve the clinical efficacy;before treatment,there is no difference between the two groups of Chinese medicine symptom scores (P>0.05). After treatment, the symptom scores of the two groups were significantly improved after treatment (P<0.05). The observation group was better among the two groups (P<0.05).After treatment, the basic biochemical indicators were improved. The observation group was better than the control group (P<0.05);Serum FGF-21 levels were significantly lower in both groups after treatment (P<0.05), and Ghrelin levels were significantly increased. There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion: The use of conventional western medicine in combination with Yiqi Yangyin Huoxue Chinese medicine for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with coronary heart disease can significantly improve the clinical efficacy, effectively promote the improvement of symptoms, and can be used in clinical work through serum FGF-21, Ghrelin levels combined detection of the value of Abnormal changes to predict the severity of type 2 diabetes mellitus with coronary heart disease severity and treatment effect should be widely used in clinical diagnosis and treatment.
文摘Dry eye is now one of the most common superficial disorders in ophthalmology at home and abroad, and more and more people attach importance to the study. The ideal approach for treatment of dry eye is to normalize the condition by rebuilding the superficial circumstance of the eye, and to make tear film work as well as possible so as to relieve the irritating symptoms in the eye. The authors are making a comprehensive discussion on the methods and curative effects of treating dry eye by traditional Chinese medicine and by integrative Chinese and Western medicine in recent years, so as to introduce the distinctive features of the traditional Chinese medicine and integrative Chinese and Western medicine in this field.
文摘Diabetic peripheral vascular disease(PVD)is one of the common chronic complications of diabetes.The main clinical manifestations of PVD are numbness and coldness of the limbs,resting pain,intermittent claudication,and other symptoms.The combined treatment involving Chinese and Western medicine for PVD has various clinical methods and definite curative effects.It is worthy of in-depth clinical research and application.
文摘OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine-Western Medicine(TCM-WM) in the treatment of acute onset pulmonary heart disease(PHD).METHODS: A total of 240 patients met the inclusion criteria and were enrolled. These inpatients were divided into group A(treatment group) and B(control group) in order of admission according to the principles of randomization and control. The research was performed simultaneously in three hospitals. Two groups were given basic treatment that included: controlled oxygen therapy, active and effective anti-infection, maintaining airway patency,correcting O_2 deficiency and CO_2 retention, correcting acid-base imbalance and electrolyte disturbance, reducing pulmonary hypertension and treating right heart failure, nutritional support and treatment of complications. Group A was given basic treatment and integrated Traditional Chinese Medi-cine(TCM) differentiating therapy; group B was given basic therapy and a placebo that was similar in appearance and taste to TCM medicinal broth of pharmaceutical preparations, provided by Yibin Pharmaceutical Company(Yibin, China, Wuliangye Group).RESULTS: The mortality in the treatment group decreased by 4.98% compared with the control group. The treatment group reported improved ventilation, corrected hypoxemia, improved nutritional status and promoted digestive functions. It also significantly improved the patient's self-life skills, improved the patient's quality of life and could shorten the length of hospital stay.CONCLUSION: Comprehensive integrated TCMWM treatment showed good clinical efficacy toward the acute onset period of PHD patients.
文摘In the 1970's, promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis (PCRS) was the main method in integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM) in treating acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It decreased the case fatality rate of AMI from 30% to 13%-16% as compared with that treated by simple Western internal medical conservative treatment. Later in the 1980's, such therapeutic approaches as infarction related arterial revascularization, thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) became the most effective means in treating AMI, which could re-canalize the obstructed coronary vessels, recover the blood perfusion of myocardium, and thus to save the ischemic myocardium, diminute the infarcted size, preserve the ventricular function and improve the patient's near and long-term prognosis, with the fatality rate reduced by 5%-7%. Hence, the some-time superiority of ICWM in treating AMI was overshadowed with no more luster left.
文摘In 2006, the Hepatology Committee of Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine issued the "Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Liver Fibrosis with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine." In recent years, the fields of Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and integrative medicine have made rapid advances in basic and clinical research into chronic liver disease, and accumulated new evidence for the prevention and treatment of hepatic fibrosis. Therefore, in order to meet clinical needs, liver disease experts of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine were united to revise the previous guidelines in order to help physicians make correct and reasonable decisions in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatic fibrosis.
基金Supported by the National Ministry of Science and Technology "Eleventh Five-Year" Project of China(No.2006BA104A11)
文摘Objective: To analyze the clinical evaluation of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients receiving integrated Chinese and Western medicine therapy. Methods: One hundred and twenty patients were enrolled and randomly allocated to a control group or treatment group. Patients in the two groups received placebo and Bushen Huoxue Granule (补肾活血颗粒, BHG), respectively. Both groups received baseline levodopa and benserazide (Madopar). The effects of treatment were assessed monthly during the 9-month treatment. Means of evaluation included Unified PD Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores (Ⅱ and Ⅲ), sleep scale score, 10 m turn back test (getting up time, 10 m × 2 times, and turning time), timing motor test (TMT)-Ieft and TMT-right, which were treated as the dependent variables; and age, sex, duration of PD, Hoehn and Yahr (H-Y) stage and Madopar dosage of admitted PD patients were as the independent variables. Multiple linear regression was used to analyze these factors. Results: H-Y stage significantly affected UPDRSⅡ score, UPDRS Ⅲ score, and getting up time (P〈0.01). Madopar dosage and H-Y stage significantly affected the 10 m × 2 times (P〈0.05 or P〈0.01). Madopar dosage significantly affected the sleep scale score (P〈0.05). There were also significant correlations between age and TMT-left or TMT-right (P〈0.01), and duration of PD and TMT-right (P〈0.05). Conclusions: The six assessed means of clinical evaluation (including UPDRS Ⅱ and UPDRS Ⅲ scores, sleep scale score, getting up time, 10 m × 2 times, and turning time) are sensitive indexes in all PD patients. H-Y stage and Madopar dosage are the major factors influencing means of clinical assessment of PD treatment.
文摘Objective: To explore the treatment on infantile intractable diarrhea with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine. Methods: Paired control method was used to study 54 cases of infantile intractable diarrhea patients, who were randomly divided into the treated group and the control group (western medicine treated group). The treated group was further subdivided into two syndrome-types: Spleen deficiency diarrhea type and Spleen-Kidney Yang deficiency diarrhea type, and modified Shenling Baizhu powder (参苓白术散) and Sijunzi decoction (四君子汤) with modified Sishen pill (四神丸) were used for them respectively, while the control group was given only the conventional western drugs. At the same time, immunoglobulin (IG) and T lymphocyte transformation rate (TLTR) were observed. Results: Before treatment, IgG, IgA and TLTR of all the patients in both groups were lowered; after treatment, all of them improved, and the improvement of the treated group was more significant than that of control group (P<0.01). In the treated group, the cure rate and total effective rate were significantly higher than that of control group (P<0.01). Conclusion: Using integrated traditional Chinese and western method, the immune function of the patients were enhanced, and the function of Spleen-Stomach was recuperated, therefore satisfactory results were reached.
基金Supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 30572404) The Nature Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. ZJY0506-01)+1 种基金 Heilongjiang Oversea Scholars Project (No. 1151HZ010) Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Financial Assitance (No. LBH-Z05230) and Sino-Finish Scientific and Technological Cooperation (11th Session for 2004-2006)
文摘Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most popular diseases that cause menstrual dysfunction and infertility in women. The present paper is a brief retrospection on the progress in treatment of PCOS caused infertility with integrative Chinese and Western medicine (ICWM). It can be seen from these materials that using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) recipes formulated by Shen-replenishing herbs or acupuncture to reinforce Gan-Shen, regulate Chong-Ren Channels in treating PCOS, stable clinical efficacy could be obtained, with less adverse reaction, though the effect initiated somewhat late. Whereas, when Shen-replenishing recipe and acupuncture are combined with hormone or ovulation promoting drugs of Western medicine, the above-mentioned shortcomings would be overcome. So, this combined therapy is frequently used in clinical practice.