[Kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal medicine combined with doxazosin for the treatment of chronic epididymitis].

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Zhonghua Nan Ke Xue. 2010 Dec;16(12):1143-6.
[Kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal medicine combined with doxazosin for the treatment of chronic epididymitis].
Zhou YC, Xia GS, Xue YY, Zhang XD, Zheng LW, Jin BF.
SourceResearch Institute of Andrology, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210046, China. ycun00@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract :
OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical effects of kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal medicine combined with doxazosin in the treatment of chronic epididymitis.
METHODS: A total of 64 patients with chronic epididymitis were equally randomized into a treatment and a control group, the former treated with kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal decoction combined with doxazosin, and the latter given doxazosin only, both for 4 weeks. The clinical symptoms were measured by Chronic Epididymitis Symptom Index (CESI), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) before and after the treatment, and the therapeutic effects were evaluated.
RESULTS: After 4 weeks of medication, the total mean scores on CESI, pain, and quality of life (QOL) were significantly decreased in both the treatment and the control groups (P andlt; 0.05), even more significantly in the former than in the latter (P andlt; 0.05), and so were the scores on SAS and SDS (P andlt; 0.05), but with no significant differences between the two groups (P andgt; 0.05).
CONCLUSION: Either doxazosin alone or kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal decoction combined with doxazosin is obviously effective on chronic epididymitis, but the combined medication produces an even better efficacy.
PMID: 21348207 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

URL : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21348207

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With its objective to study the clinical effects of kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal medicine combined with doxazosin in the treatment of chronic epididymitis this randomized study comes up with a useful conclusion that either doxazosin alone or kidney-tonifying and dampness-expelling Chinese herbal decoction combined with doxazosin is obviously effective on chronic epididymitis, but the combined medication produces an even better efficacy.