Effect of the Detoxifying and Myogenic Herb Enema in Treating 19 Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

摘要

Sulfasalazine and corticosteroids have been the mainstays of treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC), but therapy has been hampered by symptoms of dose-related intolerance to sul-fasalazine in one third to one half of patients, and fever, rash, or other manifestations of drug allergy in a lesser proportion of patients. Similarly, steroids therapies were complicated with one litany of short- and long term side-effect, while neither sulfasalazine nor the steroids have been able (alone or in combination) to control the disease in more than two thirds to three quarters of patients over the short or long term. Recent advances such as 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) and new steroid preparations have improved our ability to treat UC, but side effects such as local irritation,occasional diarrhea, skin rashes, or hair loss were reported in some cases.