| Disease | THE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS, MODES AND MECHANISMS OF ACTION, AND SIDE EFFECTS OF TRIPTERYGIUM GLYCOSIDE TABLET WERE REVIEWED. THE DRUG WAS 93.3% EFFECTIVE FOR 144 CASES OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, 81.8% EFFECTIVE FOR 22 CASES OF RECURRENT APHTHA.
56.8% EFFECTIVE FOR 44 CASES OF ADULT NEPHRITIS. 97.5% EFFECTIVE FOR 44 CASES OF CHILD SIMPLE NEPHRITIS, AND WAS 100% AND 92.5% EFFECTIVE FOR LEPROSY TYPES I AND II, RESPECTIVELY. IT WAS ALSO GOOD FOR HEPATIC DISEASES, DERMATOLOGICAL DISEASES
AND LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. TRIPTERYGIUM GLYCOSIDES WERE SHOWN TO HAVE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AND FERTILITY REGULATING ACTIONS. AMONG THE PATIENTS TREATED WITH THE DRUG, ABOUT 20% HAD GASTROINTESTINAL DISCOMFORT. 6% HAD LEUKOPENIA,
0.6% AND THROMBOCYTOPENIA, 5% OF FEMALE PATIENTS HAD ABNORMAL MENSTRUATION AND OF MALE PATENTS, AZOOSPERMIA OR SPERMACRASIA. THESE ABNORMALITIES WERE REVERSED UPON DISCONTINUATION OF TREATMENT. [8 REF]. |