Effect of Jingui Shenqi pill combined with nifedipine for the treatment of elderly hypertensive patients with spleen-kidney Yang deficiency syndrome.
- Author:
Xu-dong LIU
;
Jian FU
;
Mu-zhong FENG
;
Zheng-hua ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Aged;
Drug Therapy, Combination;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
administration & dosage;
Female;
Humans;
Hypertension;
drug therapy;
Kidney Diseases;
drug therapy;
Male;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Nifedipine;
administration & dosage;
Splenic Diseases;
drug therapy;
Yang Deficiency;
drug therapy
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2015;40(24):4908-4913
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Totally 96 elderly patients with spleen-kidney Yang deficiency type hypertension were selected in this study. Patients were randomly divided into study and control group. It was treated with the Jingui Shenqi pill combined nifedipine sustained-release tablets in the study group and only nifedipine sustained-release tablets for the control group. Meanwhile, the clinical features including reducing blood pressure, blood lipid and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes of the two groups were observed pre and post treatment. Finally, the results showed that it could significantly reduce the hypertensive, hyperlipidemia and TCM syndromes in the study group compared with the control group (P < 0.05), which indicated that the combination of the Jingui Shenqi pill with nifedipine sustained-release tablets was effective for the patients with hypertension with spleen-kidney Yang deficiency type, especially for decreasing TCM syndromes and the blood lipid.
