Adding Chinese herbal medicine to conventional therapy brings cognitive benefits to patients with Alzheimer's disease: a retrospective analysis

• Main Authors: Jing Shi (Author), Jingnian Ni (Author), Tao Lu (Author), Xuekai Zhang (Author), Mingqing Wei (Author), Ting Li (Author), Weiwei Liu (Author), Yongyan Wang (Author), Yuanyuan Shi (Author), Jinzhou Tian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Conventional therapy (CT) such as donepezil and memantine are well-known short-term treatments for the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The efficacy of them, however, drops below baseline level after 9 months. In China, herbal therapy as a complementary therapy is very...