[Effect on anti-aging and treating yang deficiency of kidney with huanshao dan capsules. A clinical report of 309 cases]

The Hospital, Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

In this study, with various dosages of huanshao dan capsules, an old Chinese medicine formula, the authors treated the patients with Yang-deficiency of kidney for 1.5-3 months and compared the effects of huanshao dan with those of watered pills and placebo. The analyses of Ridit's showed not only the scores of symptoms of the great-dose huanshao dan group (group 2), the great-dose watered pill group (group 3), the small-dose watered pill group (group 4) and but even the short-treating course group (group 5) were remarkably improved after treatment (P less than 0.001, P less than 0.01); but the group 6 have not any difference after treatment. However, the functions of liver and kidney, the level of cholesterol, the concentration of blood sugar, blood pressure and heart rate remained the same after treatment. The scores of the ability of prompt memory as well as serum lipid peroxide, serum adrenocortical hormone, cellular immunological function, index of glycoprotein and T3, T4 had similar changes. Our data suggested that both huanshao dan and watered pills were beneficial for anti-aging process and there was no noticeable difference between the two drugs.

PMID: 1627943 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]