title: Novel medical bathing with traditional Chinese herb formula alleviates paraplegia spasticity.
abstract: Paraplegia spasm is a kind of chronic disease which lacks effective treatment; the patients have to endure long-term pain, which is a tough problem for nursing practice. Lots of potential candidate medicines are under investigation, and a new Chinese herb formula is introduced in the current study. In the present study, we chose six different well-known Chinese herbs to form a formula, and boiled them into the water with an optimized ratio to make bath water; 80 paraplegic patients received this medicinal bath, and 80 patients received perfume water bath as placebo group. Compared with placebo control patients, the herb-treated patients have significant reduction in paraplegia spasm, visual analogue scale score, clinician global impression and sleep disorder. This novel six-combined formula traditional medicine could be beneficial for alleviating paraplegia spasm, but the underlying action mechanism deserves further study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Spinal Cord Injury, Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of Chinese PLA, General Hospital of Jinan Military Area Command, Jinan, Shandong Province, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qingxi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Dapeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xiwu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Tingbao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D001452:Balneology; D018592:Cross-Over Studies; D004311:Double-Blind Method; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D006801:Humans; D009128:Muscle Spasticity; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D010919:Placebos
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D010919:Placebos
keywords: outpatient clinic; paraplegia spasticity; traditional Chinese medicine; visual analogue scale