title: A clinical study on treatment of vascular complications of diabetes with the sugar--reducing and pulse--invigorating capsule.
abstract: The capsule is effective in replenishing qi, nourishing yin, activating blood, and resolving stasis. It can correct abnormalities in blood rheology, improve fat metabolism, enhance functioning of the islets of Langerhans, lower blood sugar, and alleviate clinical symptoms. Efficacious also against the chief vascular complications of diabetes, it helps in abating myocardial anoxia, improving left heart function, stimulating blood circulation to the brain, resisting coagulation and resolving thrombosis, also dilating the arteries of the legs. It is of some benefit in early diabetic retinopathy and renal diseases.
authors.affiliation: Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002214:Capsules; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000188:drug therapy; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000188:drug therapy; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D002214:Capsules; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal