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Traditional Chinese medical treatment to invigorate blood and relieve stasis treatment of schizophrenia: Comparison with antipsychotics treatment
Author(s) -
WANG BIN
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1998.tb03259.x
Subject(s) - blood stasis , antipsychotic , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , medicine , brief psychiatric rating scale , traditional chinese medicine , anxiety , psychiatry , depression (economics) , alternative medicine , psychosis , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
In this study, 80 schizophrenic patients, divided into two groups of 40, were treated with traditional Chinese medicine to invigorate the blood and relieve stasis and antipsychotic drugs, and were observed by the rating methods of BPRS, TESS, CGI scale and hemorheology test. The results show that such traditional Chinese medicine to invigorate blood and relieve stasis has fewer side effects on schizophrenic patients than do antipsychotic drugs, and there is objective evidence of hemorheology changes. Traditional Chinese medicine is superior to antipsychotic drugs in the effects of anti‐anxiety–depression and antipsychomotor inhibition, but it is less effective in controlling psychomotor excitation compared with antipsychotic drugs.