[Clinical observation on liang's anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule in rheumatoid arthritis in the active stage].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the therapeutic effect of Liang's anti-rheumatism and rheumatoid granule (LARG) in treating patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) at the active stage.


METHODS
Fifty patients were administered orally with LARG in the treated group, 30 patients were treated with Wangbi granule in the control group. Symptoms, physical signs and relevant laboratory indexes in the 2 groups were observed and compared before treatment and after being treated for 2 months.


RESULTS
The total effective rate and curative-markedly effective rate in the treated groups were superior to those in the control group (P <0.01). The improvement in aspects of integral scoring of symptom and physical signs, including arthragia, tumefaction, dysfunction indexes, morning stiffness and 15m walking time, and laboratory indexes, including blood sedimentation rate, rheumatoid factor, C creative protein, immunoglobin, as well as hemorheology relevant indexes in the treated group after treatment were significantly different to those before treatment and those in the control group (P <0.05 or P <0.01).


CONCLUSIONS
LARG has obvious therapeutic effect on RA at the active stage.
Zhou
Hong
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Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou (510120). zhouhong282@sina.com
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D000328:Adult; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000188:drug therapy*; D001799:Blood Sedimentation; D002097:C-Reactive Protein / Q000378:metabolism; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008517:Phytotherapy; D012217:Rheumatoid Factor / Q000097:blood
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D002097:C-Reactive Protein; D012217:Rheumatoid Factor