Review on advantages and evidence of treating and preventing urinary tract infection in traditional Chinese medicine.
- Author:
Guo-Yong YU
1
;
Zhe-Jing TIAN
1
;
Yue SUN
2
;
Han-Wen YANG
1
;
Shuai-Jie HAN
1
;
Run-Pei MIAO
1
;
Xin-Wen FU
2
;
Min XIONG
1
;
Yao-Xian WANG
1
;
Jun-Jian TIAN
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: advantages; evidence; stranguria; traditional Chinese medicine; urinary tract infection
- From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2017;42(8):1439-1448
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: Urinary tract infection (UTI) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) belongs to the category of stranguria. This article describes the unsatisfactory situations in clinical practice such as antibiotics abuse, increasing of drug-resistant bacteria, high recurrence rate, etc. According to evidence-based medicine, literatures as evidence are collected for summarizing and analyzing and the result shows the advantages of TCM of relieving symptoms, reducing the dosage of antibiotics, less side effects, lower recurrence rate, etc. In the field of fundamental research, literatures associated with UTI are also summarized and analysed from several perspectives, such as causes, pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation, pharmacological effects of Chinese herbal medicine, working mechanism of non-drug therapy, etc and the result presents that integrated treatment of TCM in UTI has significant advangtages and its own characteristic.
