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[Clinical study on Shen Shuai Fang in treating chronic renal failure]
Xin-Lin Wu1, Zhi-Jian Li, Wei-Jun Zhang
1The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Objective:
To explore the effect of Shen Shuai Fang in treating Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) of deficiency of spleen and kidney with turbid damp and blood stagnation symptom.
Methods:
125 patients with CRF of deficiency of spleen and kidney with turbid damp and blood stagnation symptom were randomly divided into two groups, 75 patients in treatment group were treated with Shen Shuai Fang adding western medicine and the other patients in control group were treated only with western medicine. We observed the effect and indexes change including renal function, Hb, proteinuria, lipid before and after treatment.
Results:
After six months' treatment, the general effective rate in treatment group was 77.33%, which was higher than that in control group obviously (44.00%, P < 0.01). So treatment group was obviously better than control group on decreasing proteinuria, improving renal function, increasing Hb, ameliorating lipid metabolism (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01).
Conclusion:
Shen Shuai Fang is effective to treat CRF of deficiency of spleen and kidney with turbid damp and blood stagnation symptom.
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