Bronchial asthma (asthma) is a worldwide disease manifested by repeated onset wheeze. It is one of the most common chronic airway diseases in childhood. In Singapore, there is one child suffering from asthma in every five children. With the development of the society, asthma has become a serious public health problem with high morbidity in the world and been concerned widely and highly. For west medicine, the prevention and treatment of asthma mainly follow Global Intiative for Asthma-GINA.Chinese medicine has certain advantages and characteristics in the prevention and treatment of asthma. In this research, main pathogenesis of Qi deficiency in lung and spleen with phlegm heat accumulation in children asthma in clinical remission stage has been brought up and the prescription of tonifying the lung and Spleen with clearing heat and resolving phlegm has been made according to characteristics of the asthmatic children in Singapore based on the traditional pathogenesis of asthma and suit treatment in terms of locality and constitution.The observation of 120 clinical cases(80 cases in the test group and 40 cases in the control group)showed that the suffering age of children asthma in Singapore was ranged from 3 to 5 years old and from 6 to 10 years old, the first attacking age from 3 to 6 years, most children with asthma had other allergic disease history,while part of children with asthma had related family history, and respiratory infection was the main reason.Results of clinical research showed that the difference between two groups was statistically insignificant (P<0.05) in terms of sex,age and initiating of diseases. After treatment, the analysis showed statistical significance of the difference in two groups between pre and post-treatment in aspects of the asthmatic attack times, attack duration, respiratory infection times, cough seriousness score, cough frequency score, sputum score, sputum colour score, spirit, appetite, stool, urine, sweating score,tongue and tongue fur score,fingerprint or pulse score and main, secondary and total symptom. The comparison between the two groups showed significant difference in aspects of the asthmatic attack times, attack duration, sputum score, sputum colour score, spirit, appetite, stool, urine, tongue and tongue fur score, fingerprint or pulse score and main, secondary and total symptom score, effect analysis of main end indexes and integrate effect analysis of syndrome of Chinese medicine, except respiratory infection times, cough seriousness score, cough frequency score and sweating score aspects. Both groups displayed no side effects.In conclusion,the treatment method of Bufeijianpi and Qingrehuatan and Bufeijianpi and Qingrehuatan decoction are effective for asthmatic children in the remission stage manifested by Qi deficiency in lung and spleen with phlegm heat accumulation in Singapore.
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