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2014-09-21
Yang Zhen-chang, director of the Department of Clinical Toxicology and Occupational Medicine at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, along with his student Xie Quan-fa and others, analyzed data from the National Health Insurance database to identify individuals diagnosed with kidney disease. After excluding factors that could interfere with the study, they selected 13,864 patients as research subjects. The results showed that patients who took physician-prescribed Chinese medicine had a 40% lower mortality rate compared to those who did not.
Yang's research team also investigated whether Chinese medicine prescriptions containing angelica (danggui) benefited kidney disease patients.
Using 11,676 patients as subjects, the study found that those who took angelica-containing prescriptions for a cumulative period of over 14 days, as well as those who took prescriptions with ingredients traditionally believed to benefit kidney disease (such as codonopsis, rhubarb, astragalus, and cordyceps), both groups showed a 40% reduction in mortality compared to those who did not take prescribed Chinese medicine.
Source: http://news. ltn. com. tw/ news/ life/ paper/ 815152
Kidney Disease Patients on Prescribed Chinese Medicine See 40% Lower Mortality
Yang Zhen-chang, director of the Department of Clinical Toxicology and Occupational Medicine at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, along with his student Xie Quan-fa and others, analyzed data from the National Health Insurance database to identify individuals diagnosed with kidney disease. After excluding factors that could interfere with the study, they selected 13,864 patients as research subjects. The results showed that patients who took physician-prescribed Chinese medicine had a 40% lower mortality rate compared to those who did not.
Yang's research team also investigated whether Chinese medicine prescriptions containing angelica (danggui) benefited kidney disease patients.
Using 11,676 patients as subjects, the study found that those who took angelica-containing prescriptions for a cumulative period of over 14 days, as well as those who took prescriptions with ingredients traditionally believed to benefit kidney disease (such as codonopsis, rhubarb, astragalus, and cordyceps), both groups showed a 40% reduction in mortality compared to those who did not take prescribed Chinese medicine.
Source: http://news. ltn. com. tw/ news/ life/ paper/ 815152