title: Hemorheological study and treatment with enema retention of Li Chong Tang combined with moxibustion in women suffering from chronic pelvic inflammatory diseases.
abstract: The study was undertaken to investigate the blood stasis of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) with scientific method, hemorheology. The whole blood viscosities of chronic PID increased significantly compared with normal level, which was consistent with the blood stasis of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory. Moreover, sixty women suffering from chronic PID were treated with Enema Retention of Li Chong Tang Combined with Moxibustion (ERM) for 6 weeks. The chronic PID score and the whole blood viscosity were evaluated before and after the ERM. The parameters of whole blood viscosities at low, median and high shear rate of chronic PID group decreased from 12.32±0.31, 6.66±0.13 and 5.15±0.52, to the normal levels, 9.19±0.13, 5.42±0.56 and 4.34±0.43 (p<0.05) after therapy of ERM and the symptoms score decreased from 13.73±3.7 to 3.8±1.4 (p<0.05), which shows that the ERM is an effective therapy method to treat chronic PID.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China / Department of Gynecology, the Affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, the Affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, China.
authors.forename: Yongzhi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology II, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: School of Stomatology, Jilin University/Department of Orthodontics, Changchun, China.
authors.forename: Yutong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001809:Blood Viscosity; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004733:Enema; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D009071:Moxibustion; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000097:blood / Q000628:therapy*