title: Long-Term Survival of AIDS Patients Treated with Only Traditional Chinese Medicine.
abstract: Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCM) has been used in Chinese society for more than 5,000 years to treat diseases from inflammation to cancer. Here, we report the case of nine living AIDS patients in the age range of 51 to 67 who were treated with either a unique formula of TCM alone from 2001 to 2009 or the TCM from 2001 to 2006 and then switched to occasional antiretroviral therapy. Surprisingly, the viral loads of eight patients were at undetectable levels on June 28, 2016, while the remaining patient had a low viral load of 29 copies/ml. The CD4+counts (170-592 cells/μl) and CD4+/CD8+ratios (0.21-0.90) of the nine patients are excellent, contributing to their current good health. Thus, the case study suggests that the TCM has the potential to become a functional cure for HIV/AIDS.
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Biomedicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University , Guangdong, Guangzhou, China .
authors.forename: Yifei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Biomedicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University , Guangdong, Guangzhou, China .
authors.forename: Fujun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Biomedicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University , Guangdong, Guangzhou, China .
authors.forename: Qiaoli
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: 1 Institute of Biomedicine, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University , Guangdong, Guangzhou, China .|2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Public Health Preparedness for Infectious Diseases Program, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: Zucai
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Suo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018791:CD4 Lymphocyte Count; D016516:CD4-CD8 Ratio; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D020276:HIV Long-Term Survivors; D029001:Herbal Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019562:Viral Load
keywords: AIDS; HIV-1; antiretroviral therapy; functional cure for HIV/AIDS; traditional Chinese herbal medicine