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OBJECTIVE	To compare effects of integrated treatment traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine ( TCM-WM ) and simple western medicine on TCM clincal symptoms in the patient of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation .
METHODS	A multicenter randomized controlled trials of 164 subjects evaluated the effects of clinical symptoms of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation of TWO regimens : the TCM-WM group ( n = 111 ) and western medicine treatment group ( n = 53 ) , while incidence of TCM symptoms in different time points in two groups were analyzed .
RESULTS	Twenty eight days after treatment , the cured and markedly effective rate of TCM symptoms in the TCM-WM group significantly exceeding that in the western medicine treatment group ( cured and markedly effective rate significant efficiency 44.55 % vs 20.00 % ) , while the incidence rate for the TCM symptoms of fever and headache in the TCM-WM group was significantly lower than that in western medicine group .
CONCLUSIONS	The integrated treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine helps to alleviate the TCM clinical symptoms of AIDS with pulmonary inflammation .

