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Treatment of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with chinese medicine in China: Opportunity, advancement and challenges

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Chinese medicine (CM) has been used in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) for 30 years and the demonstrated therapeutic effects of CM, such as reducing plasma HIV viral load, increasing CD4+T cell counts, promoting immunity reconstitution, ameliorating symptoms and signs, improving the health related quality of life (HRQOL) and counteracting against the effects of anti-retroviral drugs, were summarized and reviewed in this article. The authors point out that it had been a good opportunity to use CM for the treatment of HIV infection and AIDS in the past and also there are huge challenges ahead for CM research and clinicians to discover more effective CM and its underlying mechanisms for treatment of AIDS.

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  1. Department of AIDS Treatment and Research Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, 450000, China

    Zhi-bin Liu  (刘志斌), Hui-juan Liu  (刘会娟), Yan-tao Jin  (金艳涛), Hui-jun Guo  (郭会军), Zi-qiang Jiang  (蒋自强), Zhen Li  (李 真) & Li-ran Xu  (徐立然)

  2. Key Laboratory of Viral Diseases Prevention and Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, 450000, China

    Zhi-bin Liu  (刘志斌), Hui-jun Guo  (郭会军), Zi-qiang Jiang  (蒋自强), Zhen Li  (李 真) & Li-ran Xu  (徐立然)

  3. Institute of International Education, Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College, Zhengzhou, 450000, China

    Xin Wang  (王 新)

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Supported by the National Special S&T Program on Major Infectious Diseases (No. 2013ZX10005001-001 and No. 2012ZX10005010-001-002), the Research Project for Practice Development of National Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Bases (No. JDZX2012023), and the Innovation Scientists and Technicians Troop Construction Projects of Zhengzhou City (No.10CXTD140)

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Liu, Zb., Wang, X., Liu, Hj. et al. Treatment of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with chinese medicine in China: Opportunity, advancement and challenges. Chin. J. Integr. Med. 19, 563–567 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11655-013-1552-1

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