Prescription analysis of AIDS treated by traditional Chinese medicine in recent twenty years

Objective: A search of CNKI databases was conducted(from January 1992 to October 2012) on commonly used traditional Chinese medicine therapy to treat AIDS. The frequency analysis was used to analyze the characteristic of prescriptions and herbs, and to discuss the diagnosis and treatment law of AIDS treated with the theories, therapies, prescriptions and herbs. Methods: Prescriptions and herbs collected from the included literatures were classii ed, and the frequency and proportion were summarized. Results: 410 prescriptions and 250 herbs were collected from the include literatures. The proportion of, supplementing formula, reconciling formula and heat-clearing formula was 62.93%. The herbs were divided into 43 small sorts, which could be combined into 18 sorts according to the function. The frequency of using supplementing herbs, heat-clearing herbs and superi cies-resolving herbs was 69.03%. Conclusion: Analysis results of the diagnosis and treatment law of AIDS treated with traditional Chinese medicine could provide a reference for treatment based on syndrome dif erentiation of AIDS in clinical.