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Chinese Herbal Preparations Exert Strong Effects on Asthma and Atopy 3
Another study under the direction of Dr. Li involved 14 children (mean age, 5.4 years) with persistent atopic dermatitis. Children were treated with “traditional Chinese medicine consisting of Er Ka Shi Zheng herbal tea, bath additives, creams, and acupuncture,” John Wisniewski, MD reported. Good improvement, with a reduction in Scoring Atopic Dermatitis scores, ranging from 60% to 90%, was seen in 13 of the 14 patients after 3.3 months. More than a 50% improvement in Dermatology Life-Quality Index scored were achieved in 12 of 14 patients in 2.4 months (range 0.7-5.9 months). Peripheral eosinophilia decreased from 1000±700 to 500±200mc/L（P=0.03）with no change in total blood counts. There were no liver-or kidney-function-test abnormalities. Patients reported a reduction in use of steroids, antibiotics, and antihistamines within 3 months of traditional Chinese treatment.
“While the results of Dr. Li’s team are very strong and very promising, we have to be very careful here,” Wesley Burks, MD, from the Department of Pediatrics and Allergy and Immunology at Duke University School of Medicine said in an interview with Medscape Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “Dr. Li’s team in using mass spectroscopy to control the ingredients and they are operating under US Food and Drug Administration New Drug Application regulations, so her results are especially interesting,” Dr. Burks said.
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