Department of AIDS Treatment and Research Center, the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, China.
Chin J Integr Med. 2013 Aug;19(8):563-7. doi: 10.1007/s11655-013-1552-1. Epub 2013 Jul 29.
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.
中医药治疗人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）感染和获得性免疫缺陷综合征（AIDS）已经有 30 年的历史，中医药的治疗作用，如降低血浆 HIV 病毒载量、增加 CD4+T 细胞计数、促进免疫重建、改善症状和体征、提高健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）和对抗抗逆转录病毒药物的影响，在本文中得到了总结和回顾。作者指出，过去中医药治疗 HIV 感染和 AIDS 是一个很好的机会，而中医药研究和临床医生也面临着巨大的挑战，需要发现更有效的中医药及其治疗 AIDS 的潜在机制。
