When speaking in the evening of World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011, Wang Jian, Deputy Director of the Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Prevention and Treatment of AIDS with the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said:
"Chinese herbal medicine can serve as an effective supplement in therapy to reduce symptoms of AIDS , including fever, cough, asthenia, and diarrhea so that makes life easier for them. "
According to China Daily, China began to provide AIDS patients with herbal medicine free therapy in a pilot project conducted on 2300 patients in five provinces in 2004. In October, the project has expanded to 19 provinces.
Herbal therapy is usually applied to keep the immune system as a companion antiretroviral therapy or for patients who suffer side effects from therapy.
Biological indicator for this is CD4, a type of cell in the immune system. When the CD4 count reaches 350 per cubic millimeter or less, patients will require antiretroviral therapy.
According to Wang Jian, Chinese herbal medicine works in a different way from Western standard treatment. Antiretroviral therapy to block viral replication, but the Chinese herbal therapy increases the person's immunity.
Wang said the Chinese government has allocated 220 million yuan or U.S. $ 34,490,000 for the research of herbal therapy. Further efforts will also be conducted to develop better treatments.
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