Clinical Efficacy of Modified Shaoyao Gancao Tang Combined with Morphine Sulfate Sustained Release Tablet for Cancer Pain with Qi and Blood Deficiency Syndrome and Effect on Pain Mediators and Inflammatory Factors
CAO Dong-bo, SONG Yang, HUANG Lei. Clinical Efficacy of Modified Shaoyao Gancao Tang Combined with Morphine Sulfate Sustained Release Tablet for Cancer Pain with Qi and Blood Deficiency Syndrome and Effect on Pain Mediators and Inflammatory Factors[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(24): 184-188.
CAO Dong-bo, SONG Yang, HUANG Lei. Clinical Efficacy of Modified Shaoyao Gancao Tang Combined with Morphine Sulfate Sustained Release Tablet for Cancer Pain with Qi and Blood Deficiency Syndrome and Effect on Pain Mediators and Inflammatory Factors[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(24): 184-188. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20182211.
Objective: To explore the clinical efficacy of modified Shaoyao Gancao Tang and morphine sulfate sustained release tablet for cancer pain with Qi and blood deficiency syndrome. Method: The 128 cases with caner pain in our hospital from January 2017 to January 2018 were selected as research objectives
and divided into observation group (64 cases) and control group (64 cases) randomly. Morphine sulfate sustained release tablets were given to both group for oral treatment
and modified Shaoyao Gancao Tang was additionally given to observation group. The clinical efficacy for pain relief between two groups
the changes in pain mediators[serotonin 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)
prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)
endothelin-1 (ET-1)
substance P (SP)] and inflammatory factors[tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α
interleukin (IL)-1β
IL-2
IL-6] after treatment and incidence of adverse reactions were recorded and compared. Result: After 4 weeks treatment
the overall effective rate was 90.6% in observation group
significant higher than 76.6% in control group (P<0.05). Compared with those before treatment
the serum levels of pain mediators (5-HT
PGE2
ET-1
SP)
TNF-α
IL-1β and IL-6 were decreased significantly in both groups after treatment (P<0.05)
and IL-2 level in serum was increased significantly (P<0.05); in addition
the improvement was more obvious in observation group (P<0.05). The incidence of adverse reactions was 15.6% (10/64) in observation group
slightly lower than 23.4%(15/64) in the control group
with no statistically significant difference between two groups. Conclusion: Modified Shaoyao Gancao Tang combined with morphine sulfate sustained release tablet could significantly relieve the pain symptoms
reduce the level of peripheral pain mediators
regulate the expression of inflammatory factors with significant effect in the treatment of cancer pain with qi and blood deficiency syndrome