ZHANG Shi-jun (~],~)1 CHEN Ze-xiong (~'{1~): 9 3 LAO Shao-xian (~)z, and HUANG Bi-jun (N~,~g)'Spirits of wine is one of the pathogenetic factors of liver damage which is merely secondary to hepatitis virus. The incidence of fatty liver in Chinese adults is 5~--9~ now. It is reported that interteukin-8 (IL-8) and lipid peroxidation play an important role in development of alcoholic fatty liver and liver damage ~ a~. The authors have observed the therapeutic effect in 30 patients of alcoholic fatty liver treated with Chinese herbal drugs for Liver-clearing, Dampness-removing and Collaterals-dredging (abbre. as CHD) from Aug. 1999 to June 2001 and explored the relationship between the effects of treatment and some indices, including IL-8, malonyldialdehyde (MDA) and superoxide dismutase (SOD).
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