Bronchial Asthma
Conditions
Keywords
treatment; bronchial asthma
Brief summary
Investigators aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in the treatment of asthma, and to further optimize the prescription of Chinese medicine treatment.
Detailed description
The incidence of asthma in China is high and the rate of control is low. Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history of treating asthma, and has a good clinical curative effect.The purpose of this study is to evaluate the clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of asthma, and to further optimize the prescription of Chinese medicine treatment. In this study, investigators recruited chronic persistent asthma participants, and gave the corresponding western medicine background treatment and traditional Chinese medicine treatment program for 28 days.Participants will undergo a physical examination, lung function, blood and sputum collection.
Interventions
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Placebo
Placebo
Sponsors
Study design
Masking description
Double-blind trial
Intervention model description
All treatment group received traditional chinese medicine plus a standard anti-asthma treatment on study entry, and the control group received placebo and standard anti-asthma treatment.
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Patient diagnosed with chronic persistent asthma * Patients had positive bronchodilator reversibility test or positive bronchial challenge test or more than 50 parts per billion of FENO before * Conform to the predetermined 2 TCM Syndrome Types * Patients who have given written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
* Smoking and continuous exposure to hazardous environment * With fever, or severity of intermittent state, high degree of sustained, or with respiratory failure, etc. * Pulmonary emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, pneumonia, lung cancer and other lung diseases * Patients who are allergic to therapeutic medicine
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Asthma control rate change | up to 4 weeks | Measured the change from Baseline of asthma control rate |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FeNO | Up to 4 weeks | The fractional concentration of exhaled nitric oxide |
| Blood routine examination | Up to 4 weeks | Hematological routine examination |
| Lung function(FEV1, PEF) | Up to 4 weeks | Measured routine pulmonary ventilation function test |
| Cytokine levels of induced sputum | Up to 4 weeks | Measured cytokine levels of induced sputum supernatant |
| Kidney function test | Up to 4 weeks | Simple kidney function test |
| Liver function test | Up to 4 weeks | Simple liver function test |
Countries
China