id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-014897-rnrlslfh Rong-bing, Wang Therapeutic effects of integrated traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine in treating severe acute respiratory syndrome 2003 .txt text/plain 2324 103 52 The comprehensive effect on relieving fever, cell-mediated immunity, pulmonary inflammation and secondary infection was compared between the two groups.Results: The therapeutic effect in the ICWM group was better than that in the control group in such aspects as steadily lowering body temperature, alleviating general symptoms, accelerating the absorption of pulmonary infiltration and easing cellular immunity suppression.Conclusion: The therapeutic effect of ICWM is better in treating SARS than that of western medicine alone. In order to elevate the therapeutic effects, lighten patients" symptoms, improve the pulmonary inflammation and cellular immune inhibition that occurred in the course of the illness, a clinical study of the treatment of 68 SARS patients with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine (ICWM), which was controlled with 67 patients treated with western medicine alone, was carried out. ./cache/cord-014897-rnrlslfh.txt ./txt/cord-014897-rnrlslfh.txt