Why should we treat dry syndrome with a combination of Chinese and Western medicine?

  According to the onset of dry syndrome, modern medicine generally adopts symptomatic therapy, and applies immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory methods when it is serious.  Chinese medicine itself is not hormone, using methods such as kidney tonic or spleen strengthening can mobilize the organism to promote itself to increase the secretion of hormones and cytokines to exert its clinical therapeutic effect. Chinese herbs can have corresponding regulating effects for different certificates, so as to calm down the hyperactive effect and restore the deficient performance. It can improve the endocrine and immune functions of the body, thus restoring the balance of yin and yang in the body. Chinese medicine can “actively regulate” the immune function of the body, which is important for relieving symptoms and improving the quality of life of patients, and some early stage patients are expected to get complete remission. We believe that this disease is mainly deficiency, closely related to liver, spleen and kidney. Spleen qi deficiency and liver-kidney yin deficiency causing deficiency of fluid and abnormal perfusion are the key to the pathogenesis, and blood stasis is present throughout and is an important cause of the disease development and persistence. Treatment is recommended to benefit qi and nourish yin, generate fluid and moisten dryness, and activate blood circulation.  In the past clinical practice, the rheumatology department of Haidian Hospital (Haidian Campus of North Medical College) has treated hundreds of patients with dry syndrome, about 70% of them have achieved long-term remission by using Chinese medicine treatment only, and the laboratory indexes (blood sedimentation, C-reactive protein, etc.) are completely normal after treatment. The remaining 30% of patients also got complete remission or partial remission through the combination of Chinese and Western medicine.  Practice has proved that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine has incomparable advantages of Western medicine in the treatment of dry syndrome, and it is relieving pain and restoring health for the majority of patients and will do so soon. We wish our friends with dry syndrome a speedy recovery!