Shih Traumatology Arctium Phlegm Obstruction Syndrome Treatment Of Osteoarthritis Of The Knee Clinical Observation

Background:China entered the aging society in 1999, the old increased incidence of diseases, including osteoarthritis of the knee (Osteoarthritis) significantly increased the incidence, impact of the elderly has become a major quality of life of common orthopedic disease, caused widespread attention orthopedic sector. Knee osteoarthritis is a slow, gradual process, the acute exacerbation and remission is another alternative, the acute attack with pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity and dysfunction as the main performance. Primarily to alleviate clinical symptoms, improve function for the purpose of the application in which drug treatment is common. Western medicine to anti-inflammatory analgesic for the gold standard, but in recent years, the side effects gradually discovered by the medical profession, such as gastrointestinal ulcers, kidney damage, cardiovascular dangers, limit its clinical use.Chinese Herbs Therapy on the efficacy of knee osteoarthritis in the country have been positive, especially because of its few side effects, focusing on individual syndrome differentiation and to be more widely used. Shih traumatology that osteoarthritis of the knee for the exhaustion or fatigue as a result, Grand Momentum occlusion stagnant, easy-to-sputum poly infestation. Phlegm into contact, resulting in sluggish blood, phlegm consequent nostalgia, phlegm and blood coagulation pay, loss of use of reinforcement, the resistance network card comes as phlegm. Treatment of this disease, and more to the method of bulk phlegm mainly to be side by side Arctium Decoction, clinically significant effect. But their clinical efficacy is still a lack of evaluation of clinical systems.Objective: To experience side Arctium Shih Tang and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs compared the efficacy of its treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee to provide an objective basis for the system in order to evaluate the treatment system.Methods:A randomized controlled use of experimental methods, the use of database and statistical analysis technology studies, by calculating the sample size and the actual situation analysis, selection met the inclusion criteria did not meet exclusion criteria knee osteoarthritis 60, randomized controlled trials using clinical methods, choose the simple experience of Fang Shih Treatment of Oral Medicine program or simply use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug treatment program, a total of 2 weeks, using knee society score (KSS) and visual analogue scales (VAS) evaluation before and after treatment scores were compared using statistical method. Statistics by SPSS13.0 package, before and after the data were compared with t test.Results:The treatment group compared with 2 weeks before treatment in patients with KSS score up, VAS score decreased than that before treatment, there are significant differences, with clinical significance; treatment group and control group patients 2 weeks after treatment the difference was not statistically significant effect. Description Arctium decoction in treating phlegm obstruction syndrome with knee osteoarthritis pain relief and improved knee function in patients after 2 weeks of treatment effect was significant difference; its non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs with efficacy equivalent to non-significant difference.Conelusion:After treatment, significantly lower VAS pain scores, knee function score was significantly higher than that before treatment, no adverse effect was found, indicating Arctium phlegm obstruction syndrome Treatment of knee arthritis is safe and feasible mitigation improvement of clinical symptoms and the role of suffering a significant knee function.