Literature Review on Syndrome Differentiation and Herbal Medicine of Sjogren’s Syndrome - Focusing on Chinese Traditional Medicine"s Journals

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the diagnosis and treatment of Sjogren"s syndrome(SS) such as syndrome differentiation and herbal medicine by reviewing Chinese traditional medicine"s journals. The journal search was carried out using China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI) and PubMed from January 2007 to July 2012. Searching key words were the various combination of “Sjogren"s syndrome”, “Traditional Chinese Medicine”, “herbal medicine”, and “syndrome differentiation”. The final selection of 57 studies were extracted and summarized by two researchers independently. The syndrome differentiation was classified as yin deficiency with fluid depletion, yin deficiency with dryness heat, dryness toxin with yin damage, internal obstruction of static blood, dual deficiency of qi and yang, dampness-heat obstructing, wind with external contraction, liver qi depression, blood deficiency and wind-dryness, dual deficiency of yin and yang, and internal obstruction of phlegm-blood stasis. Liriope platyphylla(麥門冬), Rehmania glutinosa(生地黃), and Scrophularia buergeriana(玄蔘) were primarily prescribed to tonify yin, engender fluid and moisten dryness.