Clinical study on treating asthma of cold type with wenyang tongluo mixture

Sixty-eight asthma patients of Cold type were randomly divided into two groups, 34 for each group. The treated group was treated with Chinese herbal medicine Wenyang Tongluo Mixture (WYTLM), the control group was treated with Salbutamol orally and beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol. After 8 weeks of treatment, the results showed that there was no significant difference between the short-term total effective rate of the two groups (P > 0.05). Results of followup 1 year after withdrawal of treatment, showed that 9 patients (26.47%) in the treated group and 2 (5.88%) in the control group were cured clinically, it indicated that the long-term curative rate of the former group was higher than that of the latter group significantly (P < 0.05). And the effect of treated group on eliminating Asthenia-Cold symptoms, improving pulmonary ventilation function, regulating adrenergic beta-receptors of peripheral blood lymphocyte and decreasing the serum level of 5-hydroxytryptamine was more superior to that of control group (P < 0.05-0.01). This study provided some objective basis for using WYTLM in preventing and treating asthma of Cold type.