title: [Clinical study on Zhuyu Tongfu serial recipe combined with acupuncture and massotherapy in treating hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the clinical efficacy and mechanism of Zhuyu Tongfu (ZYTF) Serial Recipe combined with acupuncture and massotherapy in treating hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage (HCH).
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred and eighteen patients with hypertensive cerebral hemorrhage, on the basis of conventional Western medicine treatment, were randomly divided into ZYTF combined with acupuncture and massotherapy group (treated group) and simple Western medicine group (control group); the clinical efficacy, neurofunction deficit scoring (NDS) alterations and hematoma absorption rate of both groups were observed, and also the plasma superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, plasma lipid peroxidase (LPO) content, erythrocyte glutathion peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity, hematocrit (Ht) and the whole blood viscosity (Va) change were also observed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the treated group, the clinical efficacy, NDS improvement and hematoma absorption rate were superior to that of the control group; comparison between the two groups after treatment showed that plasma SOD activity and GSH-Px activity got more elevated and plasma LPO content, Ht and Va more lowered in the the treated group than those in the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ZYTF combined with acupuncture and massotherapy has better effect, its therapeutic mechanism was possibly correlated to the elevation of plasma SOD activity, GSH-Px activity and lowering of plasma LPO content, Ht and Va.
authors.affiliation: The Second Hospital Affiliated to Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China. zhangguoping@ZJ.com
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Guo-ping
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Shui-jiang
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Mei-ping
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Jun-fu
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xiao-dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Bie
authors.forename: Jian-ren
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhuo-hua
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hai-feng
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Guang-guo
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lai-ting
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Fei
mesh_terms: D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020299:Intracranial Hemorrhage, Hypertensive / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008405:Massage / Q000379:methods*; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal