Clinical And Experimental Study On Treating Nerve-Root-Type Cervical Spondylosis With The Ge Qi Er Xian Tang Decoction

The Cervical Spondylosis(CS) which endangers the elderly's health is a common and frequently-occurring diseases, The type of root of nerve has the highest incidence of disease which accounts for 50% - 60% of various CS. This study uses Ge Qi Er Xian Tang(GQEXT) to treat nerve- root -type CS, and at theory, clinical, experiment three respects to probe into the basic theory of improving the main symptoms of nerve- root -type CS . This research shows that nerve- root -type CS is closely connected with Qi Stagnation and blood stasis which lead to Bi-syndrome,so GQEXT is composed on the basis of therapy of invigorating blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, invigorating pulse-beat and relieving pain,reinforcing liver and kidney and strengthening Qi and nourishing blood.In clinical study,the 138 cases of nerve- root -type CS were treated and observed systematically for a month.And the results show that GQEXT can effectively improve the symptoms of nerve- root -type CS.The totally effective rate amounts to 93.59% and significantly superior to the control group-Jing Fu Kang(P<0.05).In terms of the pathogenesis of nerve- root -type CS we designed the animal modles and engaged in the experiments.The experimental results show that GQEXT has vocal safety and many aspects including inflammatory and relief of pain ,improvement of the blood viscosity and microcirculation.In addition,the questions relevant to this study were discussed in the perspective of TCM and western medicine.