Artemisia annua turtle soup treatment of elderly community-acquired pneumonia in 30 cases.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Artemisia annua turtle soup treatment of elderly community-acquired pneumonia in 30 cases [Keywords:] community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly Chinese medicine treatment; Artemisia annua turtle soup therapeutic use; aged I was in August 2007 -2008 10 months to Artemisia annua turtle soup treatment of elderly community-acquired pneumonia (I not entirely evil, Qi and Yin Deficiency type) 30 cases, and established a control group, 30 cases of clinical efficacy of controlled observation with satisfactory results, as summarized below. A clinical data 1.1 General Information of all cases were derived from the Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Chinese Medicine Respiratory out-patient and treatment area patients, in line with literature diagnostic criteria [1]. Randomly divided into two groups according to treatment: treatment group 30 cases, male 18 cases, 12 females, aged 60-74 years, duration 3-12 d; the control group 30 cases, 15 males and 15 females, aged 61 -- 76 years old, duration of 2-10 d. Patients with the comparison groups were not significantly different (Pamp;gt; 0.05). 1.2 Determination of indicators and approaches to the important observation before and after treatment-related symptoms, signs, a time of the inspection before and after treatment of blood, urine routine, chest, liver and kidney function, blood glucose and ECG. 1.3 statistical methods using SPSS 13.0 statistical software χ 2 test, t test. Two treatment 2.1 in control group Cefuroxime Axetil (Zinacef) (Glaxo Wellcome Production) 0.5 g, 2 times oral, cephalosporin antibiotics, allergy service levofloxacin 0.3 g, 2 times orally. 2.2 The group was treated with oral administration of Artemisia annua turtle soup, pharmaceutical form: Artemisia annua, turtle shell, raw land, Anemarrhena, Cortex Moutan, heterophylla, Polygonatum, Aster, Coltsfoot Flower, Zhejiang Fritillaria (Changchun University of Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital of fried medic