Traditional Chinese medicine for reducing side effects of glucocorticoid medicine

Abstract

The invention discloses traditional Chinese medicine for reducing side effects of a glucocorticoid medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from the following active pharmaceutical ingredients in parts by weight: 10 to 30 parts of buffalo horns, 10 to 30 parts of radix rehmanniae recens, 5 to 20 parts of herba epimedii and 3 to 12 parts of liquorice roots. The traditional Chinese medicine for reducing side effects of the glucocorticoid medicine has the advantages that in the traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, the buffalo horns have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and arresting convulsion; the radix rehmanniae recens has the effects of removing heat to cool blood, nourishing yin and generating body fluid; the herba epimedii has the effects of tonifying the spleen and the kidney-yang, strengthening the bones and muscles and expelling wind-dampness; the liquorice roots have the effects of invigorating the spleen, replenishing qi, relieving cough, resolving phlegm, relieving urgency to relieve pain, and coordinating the medicine properties; various kinds of medicines are used together and cooperate to achieve the effects of clearing away heat, purging excessive fire, tonifying qi, benefiting junior fire, and overcoming defects of excessive fire consuming qi; the side effects of glucocorticoids can be effectively reduced; thesmooth dosage decrease and use stop of the glucocorticoids are facilitated; the total treatment cost of a patient is reduced; the medication compliance is improved; and the treatment confidence of the patient is improved.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of traditional Chinese medicine formulas, in particular to a traditional Chinese medicine for alleviating the side effects of glucocorticoid drugs. Background technique [0002] Glucocorticoids (dlucocorticoids, GC) are a class of steroid hormones secreted by the adrenal cortex zona fasciculus. They are classic steroid structural hormones composed of 21 carbon atoms. It has powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-shock, anti-allergic and immunosuppressive effects, and is widely used clinically, especially in the treatment of respiratory diseases, rheumatic immune diseases, dermatological diseases, and severe diseases. Glucocorticoids are involved in glycoprotein, fat, water-salt metabolism and other processes, and related side effects may occur during the medication process, such as adrenal hyperfunction, increased appetite, weight gain, water and sodium retention, high blood pressure, steroid-induced diabetes, and osteoporo...

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Problems solved by technology

At present, various methods such as strictly grasping the indications, excluding contraindications, adjusting the dosage and frequency of administration, choosing different glucocorticoids, and shortening the course of treatment as much as possible are used to avoid serious adverse reactions of glucocorticoids. Difficulty in disease control, rebound phenomenon after hormone withdrawal, and insufficient patient compliance lead to obvious side effects in the clinical use of glucocorticoids