Therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine in patients with symptomatic cervical ectopy

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the treatment and efficacy of Badushengjigao, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula, for symptomatic cervical ectopy. Method: A patient self-selected two group comparison study was performed. One hundred patients with symptomatic cervical ectopy admitted to the Central Hospital of E-Zhou (Hubei, China) between July 2013 and July 2014 were enrolled in the study. The patients treated with Badushengjigao were the study group and the patients treated with policresulen suppository were the control group. The medicine was administered through vagina. Patients received a three-month follow-up (once a month). The treatment results were evaluated and analyzed by variance analysis and X-2 test. Results: The curative rates of the two groups with symptomatic cervical ectopy grade 1 shows no statistical significance. As for grade 2 and grade 3, the curative rates of the study group (phase 2: 72.0%; phase 3: 62.5%) are higher than that of the control group (phase 2: 44.4%; grade 3: 54.5%) with statistical difference (P < 0.05). The study group has less adverse effects (2.5 +/- 1.3 days of vagina bleeding, 6 cases of abdominal pain and 2 cases of increased discharge) than the control group (12.5 +/- 1.1 days of vagina bleeding, 15 cases of abdominal pain and 42 cases of increased discharge) with distinctive statistical difference (P < 0.01). Conclusion: The TCM formula, Badushengjigao, seems to be more effective than policresulen suppositories in treating symptomatic cervical ectopy phase 2 and phase 3. We suggest that it could be used as an alternative method for symptomatic cervical ectopy treatment, but further study is needed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.