Li-Gong Wu1Yu-Ning Lin1*
1Department of Chinese Medicine, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical
Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan
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Aplastic anemia (AA) is a bone marrow disease which causes defects on hematopoietic stem cells and leads to pancytopenia. Clinical symptoms are anemia, pale skin, fatigue, getting infection easily, bleeding, bruising and petechiae. On pathogenesis of TCM, aplastic anemia is categorized in four major group, which is 1.Kidney essence deficiency 2. Spleen chi and blood deficiency 3.Poison in bone marrow and 4.Blood stasis in bone marrow. Immunosuppressor, corticosteroids, chemotherapy or bone marrow transplantation are the major treatments in western medicine. However, it still has horrible risks and side effects. This case is a 44-year-old male office staff who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in July 2014. He did not receive any western medicine or treatment. He have started TCM therapy since December 11th, 2014 in Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital. His symptoms gradually disappeared after TCM concentration medicine treatment. Moreover, the results of complete blood gradually became normal. As a consequence, we share this very successful case to all doctors. Hope this case report can be used as a reference for the treatment of aplastic anemia by chinese and western doctors.
【Keywords】Aplastic anemia (AA), Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM),Pathogenesis, Mechanism
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