Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 1993;0(03):-

Observation on Goiter Treated with Topical-Xiaoying(Goiter—removing)Plaster

Liqin WANG

Keywords

Thyroid goiter/TCM therapy Topical application of traditional drug

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

The total effective rate of Xiaoying Plaster applied top-ically for dissipating or reducing the size of the masswas 84.34% while that of the control group was 42.9%.Animal experiment also revealed that local appli-cation of this plaster alone can markedly reduce thethyroid mass,restoring the diffuse proliferation of thy-roid tissue to normal.The antigoiter effect is similar tothat of oral administration of thyroid tablet.