Utilizing Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of AIDS

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At present, the treatment of AIDS is, on the one hand, to inhibit the virus and enhance the immune function, and on the other hand, to fight against infection and tumors, to alleviate the symptoms and prolong the life. Now the most commonly used drugs are azidothymidine, dideoxyinosine and dideoxycytidine, etc. According to the relevant data, in the early stage of infection, such as the combined use of the above drugs will have a better effect. However, all of the above drugs are produced abroad, and the price is very expensive, rarely used in China. Other immunomodulatory drugs include interferon, interleukin and gammaglobulin, etc., all of which have the functions of anti-virus, anti-bacterial infection and enhancement of immunomodulation. Among them, interleukin can also increase the number of lymphocytes in patients and improve the immune function of human body.

    　　Treatment of traditional Chinese medicine: From the recognition of traditional Chinese medicine, AIDS is caused by the external evil (the evil of warmth and epidemic) of the virus invading the body. External evils invade the body, the positive does not overcome the evil, basically belongs to the false evidence, although sometimes manifested as this false standard, but still mainly false, so in general, the treatment should be "support the positive and benefit the yin" as the main, it is appropriate to supplement rather than to diarrhea, according to the involvement of the lungs, spleen, kidneys and so on, respectively, to tonify the qi and benefit the lungs, warming the middle and strengthening the spleen, training and tonifying the spleen and kidneys, and at the same time, to clear away the heat, transform the phlegm, eliminate the dampness, extinguish the wind, and suppress the alarm, and so on, and the choice of various formulas. In traditional Chinese medicine, Zihuadidin, Salvia miltiorrhiza and Licorice have some anti-HIV effects. GLD223 extracted from the pollen of smallpox, and then proved to have a strong anti-HIV effect in the experiment, to be introduced by the U.S. FDA to the anti-AIDS clinical verification of drugs, into the second phase of clinical trials. There is no optimistic news about the treatment of AIDS. American-Chinese scientist He Dayi invented a combination of drug therapy "cocktail therapy" was a sensation, but now research has found that even the simultaneous use of three or even four kinds of drugs can not be completely clear of HIV in the human body. On the contrary, the number of the virus may increase dramatically after incubating in the body for a period of time. What's more, the astronomical annual cost of such treatment is beyond the reach of most patients in developing countries. According to experts, very few patients in China are now treated with regular medication, and each of them spends 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year or more. For this reason, experts in Beijing, Shanghai and other places are targeting the field of traditional Chinese medicine, trying to find drugs that can effectively inhibit the virus and repair the body's immunity, while also being very cheap.

    　　The American Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, a survey shows that dozens of chemical and pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies in the United States are currently experimenting with 113 kinds of new drugs for the treatment of AIDS and related symptoms. Homo, chairman of the board of directors of the ACCP, said the ongoing research will add new tools to the fight against AIDS. Fifty-four drugs have already been approved for the treatment of AIDS and related symptoms. Thanks to the new drugs, the U.S. AIDS death rate was cut nearly in half last year, but 40,000 people in the U.S. are still infected with the disease each year, Homo said.

    　　Many diseases that have seriously threatened human health throughout history have been controlled or even eliminated by the development of effective vaccines, such as smallpox, polio and measles. However, no successful or near-successful AIDS vaccine has yet been developed. Although U.S. President Bill Clinton put the 10-year plan to develop an AIDS vaccine on the same level of importance as that year's moon landing program, there has been no breakthrough in the development of the vaccine so far.