Youhong Hou, Fang Xu, Yuqi Hou
Canada
Title: Traditional Chinese medical differentiated therapy on opportunistic fungal infection of 59 Patients with the immunocompromised syndrome
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Biography: Youhong Hou, Fang Xu, Yuqi Hou
Abstract
Object: To acquire a better therapeutic prescription against opportunistic fungal infection for patients with immuno-deficient or immuno-inhibitory diseases, the analysis on etiological fungi purified from the cutaneous and mucous membrane lesions of diagnosed 59 patients with secondary mycoses and then the effective study of traditional medical (TCM) differentiated treatment including acupuncture-moxibustion (acu-Mox.) and herbal formulas on them were made.
Methods: It included the purifying test of fungal species from diagnosed 59 patients’ sample (lesions, serum-cerebral-spinal fluid and excretion) by in the laboratory, the compared relationship between etiological fungi and initial disorders that caused the secondary mycoses, TCM differentiated diagnoses and prescribed acupuncture-Mox., and herbal treatment on them, and finally statistical analysis on the pre- and post-treatment of the differentiated therapy.
Results: The statistical analysis of the results between pre- and post- TCM differentiated therapy on each group of 59 patients with opportunistic mycoses showed that the effective cure percent of 15 cases with malignant tumor was 95.03±0.53%, of 21 cases who took long-term corticosteroid and antibiotics medication 96.05±1.32%, of 5 cases with Kwashiorkor disease- like malnutrition 93.02±0.52%, of 3 cases with HIV infection 98.05±1.37% and of 15 cases with type 2-Diabetes mellitus 91.07±1.22%, and all groups acquired significant improvement of their health state after finished the ant-fungal treatment including antifungal chemical and TCM differentiated therapies. Conclusion: The results suggested that TCM differentiated therapy worked on not only eradicating external and internal pathogenic factors of antifungal treatment but also improvement of physical (anti- pathogenic-Qi) righteousness-related systemic health. So it may be a reasonable choice for clinically anti- opportunistic fungal program.