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Old Wed Jan 3, 2007, 03:16 PM
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The Chinese Experience on Herbal Treatment for AA- Pt 2

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Thrombocytopenia, or platelet deficiency (usually due to bone marrow disorder), is treated similarly. For example, one of the versions of Bushen Shengxue Tang, containing tortoise shell gelatin, deer antler gelatin, rehmannia, astragalus, ho-shou-wu, codonopsis, tang-kuei, epimedium, salvia, rubia, ligustrum, and licorice, was given to 54 patients with thrombocytopenia (33). It was reported that all but 2 of the patients responded with increase in platelet counts and halt bleeding due to platelet deficiency.

Another example of treatment strategy is relayed in The Treatment of Difficult and Recalcitrant Diseases with Chinese Herbs (26), formulas listed for treating this disorder include Ciyhin Cangxue Fang, which is comprised of tortoise shell, oyster shell, and herbs to clear heat (phellodendron, lycium bark, gardenia), stop bleeding (bleeding is an effect of having low platelets; biota tops, sanguisorba, scute), and tonify deficiency (eucommia, lycium).

According to Pei Shen (40), when treating bone marrow deficiencies, one should tonify the yang to raise leukocytes, nourish the yin to raise platelets, and tonify qi and nourish blood to raise red blood cells. For raising platelets, he recommended tortoise shell gelatin, deer antler gelatin, and donkey skin gelatin, along with polygonatum, jujube, yu-chu, and raw rehmannia, as valuable ingredients.
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