Health Management of AIDS Patients Using Chinese Medicine: A
Theoretically Reliable, Practically Feasible, and Conveniently Operative Plan
by Zhibin Liu* in Advances in Complementary & Alternative medicine_ Journal
of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
AbstractAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) is a chronic and incurable disease, so health management of AIDS was
also the focus of the researcher. Chinese
medicine (CM) treatment for patients was conventional and flourish practice
in china. CM has played important role on AIDS treating with the unique
humanistic care and the holistic adjustment. More and more AIDS patients are benefiting
from CM.
Introduction
China is a low-prevalence country with almost 85 thousand people living
with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in China by the end of 2018yr [1]. As a
chronic and incurable today, the lifelong medication of cART is often limited
by drug side-effects, adherence to therapy, social discrimination, and even
high drug resistance [2]. Medical care is one of the guarantees for AIDS
survival. For a developing country with limited medical resources, the majority
of AIDS patients are living in poor areas of China, patients had few
opportunities and capabilities to get enough western medical care but other
than free antiviral therapy. Thus, medical care is not limited to Western
medicine (WM). For Chinese medicine (CM) has a long history of thousands of
years，which has been mediated
by the Chinese government as Western
medicine (WM) as one of mainstream medicine, even though CM is considered a
complementary or alternative medical system in most Western countries.
In daily practice, many CM practitioners (CMPs) often provide CM treatment
for patients such as qigong, Chinese herbs, acupuncture and moxibustion, etc.,
meanwhile many people often volunteer to ask for help from CM alone or integral
with WM for AIDS and HIV related signs managing, and this conventional practice
has flourished in china. CD4+ T cell counts, and HIV loads had been
recommended as a golden evaluation criterion by World Health Organization (WHO)
or WM for AIDS therapy. But to CM, more concerns are the clinical complains of
AIDS patients including abnormal symptoms and signs, lower level of quality of
life (QOL), complication, opportunistic infections and side-effects of cART rather
than CD4+ T cell counts and levels of HIV loads. The usage of CM is
based on clinical practice with the humanity characteristics, holistic approach
and differentiation of syndrome and prescription. As it has been believed, CM
has the holistic adjustment effects which lead many CMPs and patients to
believe that CM can treat any complex multi-system diseases.
Since 2004yr, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of
P.R. China had executed a pilot program for the use of CM to treat AIDS patients
in conjunction with anti-retrovirus drugs and lots of technology and science
projects for AIDS，some national projects had been founded by the government of China [3],
and meanwhile some management modalities for treating AIDS with CM had
gradually formed [4]. From that time on, the role of CM in the treatment of
AIDS had been confirmed gradually. It had been reported that CM has the
multi-effects [5], such as ameliorating symptoms and signs [6], increasing CD4+
T cell counts, reducing plasma HIV viral loads, reducing opportunistic
infections, improving QOL, counter acting against the effects of
anti-retroviral drugs, promoting immune function reconstruction [7], and even
increasing survival of AIDS patients [8]. with some advantages including the
rich resource of Chinese herbs,
the cheaper cost and fewer side effects.
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