| BackgroundAge-related macular degeneration(SMD or AMD),also known as age-related macular degeneration(ARMD),has become the elderly over 65 years,the most important cause of blindness,the age older the rate of incidence is higher. In the United States alone in 1995 has 1.7 million AMD patients,of which 10 million people has blinded.In the UK,cataract,glaucoma,optic atrophy,such as decreasing the incidence of disease,and AMD in the past four decades an increase of 60%.In our country,with the modern society of material civili-civilization, spiritual civilization,progress,improve people' s standard of living then,came with the aging population growing,and its incidence is also rising trend year by year.The disease of severe visual impairment in the elderly,the impact of patients with symptoms,but also for patients and their families and the community as I have brought a heavy economic burden on our country has been above the close attention of scholars of Ophthalmology,and the disease has to do prevention of Ophthalmology,one of the focus of the study subjects.Western medicine for the treatment of AMD is currently no fundamental measure,and the many side effects,which is very expensive,most patients can not accept it.Chinese medicine in recent years by the addition and subtraction to study the treatment of AMD' s growing number of Chinese medicine with special curative effects on AMD' s increasing attention.Compared to Western medicine and Western medicine,Chinese medicine side effects,the role of combined therapy,and the price is low,more and more by the majority of AMD patients with recognized and accepted.It is because of modern work and life,often cause a variety of reasons from the diet,deficiency missing kin, and should not shipped wet,dampness resistance,dirty air committed on or temper weak,Qi-deficiency and blood stasis,depending on faint objects deceive, hair-based disease,the clinical deficiency on type wet storm in patients with age-related macular degeneration increasing.PurposeDivision of the combination of age-related macular degeneration in the medical understanding of pathogenesis,in view of the hardship of spleen wet age-related macular degeneration to take the advantage to be wet Jianpi rule law,and oral treatment of conventional western medicine,compared the control group,a comprehensive and objective evaluation of Chinese medicine treatment of deficiency storm wet age-related macular degeneration to improve the quality of life of patients and clinical efficacy,clinical use for prevention and treatment of Chinese medicine deficiency storm wet age-related macular degeneration provide an objective basis.Research MethodProspective randomized controlled clinical research methods,selection in January 2008- February 2009 during the Chinese medicine hospital in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province,ophthalmic out-patient clinics and inpatient hospital visits in line with the inclusion criteria of a total of 40 cases of patients (63 eyes),by randomly divided into treatment group 20 cases and 20 cases of the control group,treatment group,male 9 patients(16 eyes),11 female patients (17 eyes);Control group,9 male patients(14 eyes),11 female patients (16 eyes).Treatment group Shenling Baishu casual oral control group were given capsules of Vitamin E,Vitamin C tablets,Oral tablets inosine,8-week course of treatment,treatment of both pre-and post-treatment visual acuity,fundus examination,changes in Chinese medicine as well as the quality of life symptoms areas such as observation,recording the course of treatment at any time of the evaluation target of Change,compared to the observations in order to systematic evaluation of Shenling Baishu San clinical potency for Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment of sperm deficiency storm wet age-related macular degeneration provides objective basis for variability.The results1.Vision:The treatment group and control group before and after medication in patients with visual comparison of the difference by two-sample independent t test analysis,there was no significant difference(P＞0.05). 2.Fundus specialist check-up:Treatment group and control group of pratients with retinal specialist examination before and after medication,the X~2 test,P＞0.05,differences between the two groups were not statistically significant.Note Shenling Baishu medicine powder on the wet storm deficiency age-related macular degeneration in patients with fundus shown considerable improvement and western medicine group.3.Efficacy of TCM Syndrome:Ttreatment group and control group of Chinese medicine in patients with symptoms before and after changing the medication, the X~2 test,P＜0.05,two groups were statistically significant differences between control and treatment group to improve the rate of traditional Chinese medicine syndromes was significantly higher than that.Description of Chinese medicine Shenling Baishu deficiency scattered wetlands to improve storm-type age-related macular degeneration patients have the advantage of TCM Syndrome.4.Quality of life:The treatment group and control group patients compared quality of life before and after medication,the X~2 test,P＜0.05,two groups were statistically significant differences between control and treatment group to improve the survival rate was significantly higher than the quality. Description of Chinese medicine Shenling Baishu deficiency scattered wetlands to improve storm-type age-related macular degeneration patients have the advantage of quality of life.ConcIusions1.Treatment by Shenling Baizhu storm to improve the deficiency in the wet storm in patients with age-related macular degeneration of the eye,no clinical manifestations of fundus obvious advantage.2.Shenling Baizhu storm treatment of deficiency storm wet age-related macular degeneration of the efficacy of TCM symptoms was 80.0%.Chinese medicine treatment(Shenling Baizhu storm) for spleen wet storm age-related macular degeneration symptoms in patients with Chinese medicine treatment more effective than conventional western medicine.3.AMD treatment using Shenling Baizhu storm with conventional Western medicine can be markedly improved compared to the hardship of spleen wet age-related macular degeneration in patients with the quality of life,especially in the emotional role,mental psychological,social function of three aspects.
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