DESCRIPTION  Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is an autoimmune disease that encompasses symptoms of other rheumatoid autoimmune diseases. Symptoms of scleroderma, polymyositis and systemic lupus erythematosus are most common. However, people with MCTD also may have symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis and dermatomyositis. |
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HERBS OF CHOICE Herbs are often used in combinations when combating an illness. Some of the most frequently used herbs are listed below. These nine herbs were picked up from different herbal combinations and are not meant to form a recipe. Our reference code for the different combinations of herbs used for this condition is MPC. This listing is not meant to diagnose, only to inform. This is of course not a complete list and is not meant to be used in the place of a doctor's advice. Click the image of each herb for a brief introduction in terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine. |
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CLINICAL SUCCESS IN CHINA Chinese herbal doctors have reported some successful applications of these herbal combinations. During observation on 16 patients with Mixed connective tissue disease, receiving treatment with herbal remedy, 8 cases were judged as significant improvement, 7 cases other moderate improvement. Among them 10 cases returned to full-time job, 2 cases other part-time job. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 93.8%. Check the table below for details. |
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Significant
improvement |
Moderate
improvement |
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16 |
8 |
7 |
15 |
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During other observation on 38 patients with different Overlap syndrome divided into 3 groups: |
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Cases |
Group A |
Rhupus + Polymyositis |
7 |
Rhupus + Scleroderma |
5 |
Rhupus + Rheumatoid arthritis |
4 |
Group Total |
16 |
Group B |
Rhupus + Sjogren's syndrome |
21 |
Group C |
Rhupus + Scleroderma + Sjogren's syndrome |
1 |
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After treatment with herbal remedy, 15 cases were judged as significant improvement, 14 cases other moderate improvement. Physicians judged the clinical efficacy to be good or excellent in 76.3%. Check the table below for details. |
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Cases |
Significant
improvement |
Moderate
improvement |
Total |
cases |
% |
Group A |
16 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
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Group B |
21 |
10 |
8 |
18 |
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Group C |
1 |
1 |
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1 |
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Total |
38 |
15 |
14 |
29 |
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HERBAL REMEDY BEST FOR YOU The most powerful feature of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that it allows you to easily combine multiple ingredients to form a recipe to suit the specific need of individual. The list below are to give you an idea of why you can get the herbal remedy best for you from here with us. |
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Authoritative Oriented Recipes: All these well chosen herbal combinations source from experienced and authoritative experts, and have been most commonly recognized by the practitioners in this field. When you choose a herbal remedy there are two important things among your concerns: a good recipe and a correct way to cook it. A good recipe is half the good results. |
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Custom-made with Unique Technology: When you order a herbal remedy at this website you can figure out your symptoms by using our online questionnaire system. In this way a basic herbal recipe could be customized and optimized by adding or removing some herbs to address the individual symptoms exactly. Chinese herbs should not be used in form of standard industrial products manufactured in bulk to cope with all body issues. Only custom-made is the traditional and professional way to use Chinese herbs. All the herbal remedies available at this website are purposed to be custom-made on each single order base. With our unique technology called Low-temperature Concentration the active ingredients of herbs could be survival as much as possible while being concentrated. Eevery 8 ml of the extracts, as one dose, might equal to about 50 grams of raw herbs. |
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Safe and Side Effect Free: All these herbs have been being used in China for thousands of years, and have been proven to be safe. In fact most Chinese herbs are tonics without side effects. What important is that experienced practitioners should know how to use herbs to avoid possible side effects.
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Easy-to-Take Dosage Form: You do NOT need to cook these herbs at all. We get everything ready for you. The herbal remedy comes with the preparation in an easy-to-take dosage form, typically an oral dosage form namely Liquid Herbal Extracts created on a single order base. If necessary other dosage forms, such as pills, capsules, tablets, powder, tea bag, agar gel, rinse, lotion, spray, tincture, liniment, ointment, suppositories, etc., might be used depending on how to use the herbs correctly. And herbal remedy kit, consisting of two different herbal formulae typically one for oral administration and another for external use, is often used for the skin conditions. |
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Mixed connective tissue disease affects the body's connective tissues. Made up of collagen and elastin, connective tissues are found throughout the body in the joints, ligaments, cartilage, muscles, skin and organs.
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Specific causes of MCTD remain undefined. Research suggests that many factors including genetics, hormones, and environment contribute to the development of the syndrome. |
The disorder is characterized by immune system abnormalities. Lab tests show that most patients diagnosed with MCTD have a pattern of high levels of anti-nuclear antibodies as well as antibodies to ribonucleoprotein (anti-RNP). |
Mixed connective tissue disease is an overlap syndrome. Overlap syndrome is less specific term than mixed connective tissue disease. |
Many connective tissue diseases share common signs and symptoms, which frequently makes the diagnosis of a specific rheumatic disease difficult. Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis (DM), mixed connective tissue disease, and Sjogren's syndrome can present with similar clinical features, particularly during the first 12 months of symptoms. Overall, a rheumatic disease can appears in conjunction with features of one or more other connective tissue diseases, for example, patients can have a combination of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus ("rhupus"), or systemic sclerosis and polymyositis, defining an "overlap syndrome", where the diseases comply with the diagnosis criterias. Finally, when a person has symptoms of various connective tissue diseases without meeting the full criteria for any one of them, it is often called Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease. |
Mixed connective tissue disease is up to 15 times more common among women than men. Some theorize that this high prevalence in women is related to hormones. |
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Typically, symptoms of MCTD mimic symptoms of other rheumatoid diseases and can vary from person to person. Early symptoms can be subtle and are sometimes disregarded until the disease progresses. Initial symptoms often include Raynaud's phenomenon in response to cold (blood vessel spasm followed by numbness and whiteness in fingers and toes); swollen fingers or hands; rashes (including butterfly rash on the nose, similar to the rash caused by lupus); red patches over the knuckles; purplish discoloration of the eyelids; alopecia (hair loss); telangiectasia (dilation of blood vessels), causing lesions on the hands and face; irritable bowel and other digestive problems; allergies; fatigue; sleep disturbances; and sore throat.
Symptoms of MCTD can progress gradually or rapidly. In some people, MCTD remains mild for years, then will flare up and create a medical crisis. As the disease progresses, more body systems are affected. More advanced symptoms may include arthritis (usually non-deforming, but erosive deformities like those caused by rheumatoid arthritis can develop); muscle weakness or pain in the joints or muscles; abnormalities of the esophagus; frequent infections in the gums, stomach and lungs; pleuritis (inflammation of membranes surrounding the lungs), which may cause shortness of breath or more serious problems; kidney disease; and heart disease.
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