Help needed - anybody heard of Sheng Xue Ling?

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Hi everyone,

 

Has anybody heard of this formula before? I am having trouble finding

info on what it is composed of actually... any help?

 

Thanks

Lionel

 

 

Chin J Integr Med. 2005 Mar;11(1):60-4.

 

Clinical study on the effect of Shengxueling on idiopathic

thrombocytopenic purpura.

 

Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine,

Shanghai University of TCM, China. yongmingz

 

OBJECTIVE: To observe the clinical effect of Shengxueling (SXL) on

idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), and study the possible

mechanism. METHODS: Eighty-six cases of ITP were randomly divided into

two groups. The SXL group, 56 patients treated with SXL, a traditinal

Chinese medicine and 30 patients administered with prednisone were

taken as control. Each group took drugs for 3 months and was under

follow-up observation. RESULTS: In the SXL group, the total effective

rate was 85.71%, similar to prednisone 83.33% (P > 0.05) for 3 months,

but the total effective rate of SXL (91.07%) were obviously better

than that of the control group (53.33%) (P < 0.01) for 6 months and

had no obvious adverse reaction. The patients bleeding was alleviated

or stopped, the general condition was improved. At the same time,

blood platelet count (PLT) was increased, platelet associated

immunoglobulin (PAIg) and interleukin-4 (IL-4) were markedly dropped,

the level of natural killers cells activity (NKa) increased, the rate

of T lymphocyte subsets

gradually returned to normal level. Megakaryocyte tended to maturation

on bone marrow smear after treatment. All differences above were

statistically significant. CONCLUSION: SXL is an effective and safe

medicine for ITP. Its mechanism could regulate cytoimmune, inhibit

platelet antibody to reduce the destruction of platelet, increase the

number of platelet, promote the division and maturation of

megakaryocyte, facilitate the production and release of platelet,

lower the fragility of capillary, prevent and cure hemorrhagic tendency.