Red Peony and Reduced Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Injury

• Chinese Medicines for Preventing and Treating Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Injury: Still a Long Way to Go.

  • 2019-09-05
  • Review
  • Frontiers in pharmacology 10
  • • Yan Ding
    • Yuechao Liu
    • Hongliang Li
    • Yong Li
    • Minglun Li
    • Ming Liu
    • Xianhe Wang
    • Fengjun Cao
    • Xuanbin Wang

  • PubMed: 31616288
  • DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00927

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Radiation-Induced Pulmonary Injury

  • Low evidence

  The top five most frequently used CMs were ... Paeoniae Radix Rubra (with a frequency of 5.08%)...CMs attenuated the risk of RIPI with an occurrence rate of 11.37% vs. 27.78% (P < 0.001) compared with the control groups.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes