Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic and incurable disease. People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) require lifelong care. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has played an important role in AIDS treatment since the year 2004. TCM offers many advantages including a rich resou...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Liu, Zhibin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JKL International LLC 2021
Materias:
Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8612604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34881074
http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2021.0925
_version_ 1784603479836196864
author Liu, Zhibin
author_facet Liu, Zhibin
author_sort Liu, Zhibin
collection PubMed
description Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic and incurable disease. People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) require lifelong care. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has played an important role in AIDS treatment since the year 2004. TCM offers many advantages including a rich resource of Chinese herbs, lower cost and fewer side effects. In addition to the widespread use of antiviral therapy, TCM offers unique humanistic care and holistic adjustment of the body system. To date, more and more patients are benefiting from TCM not only in China. In this article, we describe the feasibility of treating AIDS with TCM.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8612604
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher JKL International LLC
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-86126042021-12-07 Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China Liu, Zhibin Aging Dis Commentary Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic and incurable disease. People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) require lifelong care. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has played an important role in AIDS treatment since the year 2004. TCM offers many advantages including a rich resource of Chinese herbs, lower cost and fewer side effects. In addition to the widespread use of antiviral therapy, TCM offers unique humanistic care and holistic adjustment of the body system. To date, more and more patients are benefiting from TCM not only in China. In this article, we describe the feasibility of treating AIDS with TCM. JKL International LLC 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8612604/ /pubmed/34881074 http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2021.0925 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Liu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/this is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.
spellingShingle Commentary
Liu, Zhibin
Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China
title Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China
title_full Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China
title_fullStr Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China
title_full_unstemmed Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China
title_short Treating older patients with AIDS using Traditional Chinese Medicine Combined with Conventional Western Medicine in China
title_sort treating older patients with aids using traditional chinese medicine combined with conventional western medicine in china
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8612604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34881074
http://dx.doi.org/10.14336/AD.2021.0925
work_keys_str_mv AT liuzhibin treatingolderpatientswithaidsusingtraditionalchinesemedicinecombinedwithconventionalwesternmedicineinchina

Ejemplares similares