Randomized controlled study of integrated treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine on AIDS with pulmonary inflammation patients

Objective: To compare effects of integrated treatment traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine(TCM-WM) and simple western medicine on TCM clincal symptoms in the patient of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation.Method: A multicenter randomized controlled trials of 164 subjects evaluated the effects of clinical symptoms of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation of TWO regimens: the TCM-WM group(n=111)and western medicine treatment group(n=53),while incidence of TCM symptoms in different time points in two groups were analyzed.Result: Twenty eight days after treatment,the cured and markedly effective rate of TCM symptoms in the TCM-WM group significantly exceeding that in the western medicine treatment group(cured and markedly effective rate significant efficiency 44.55% vs 20.00%),while the incidence rate for the TCM symptoms of fever and headache in the TCM-WM group was significantly lower than that in western medicine group.Conclusion: The integrated treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine helps to alleviate the TCM clinical symptoms of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation.