Systemic lupus erythematosus（SLE) is an autoimmune disease, which has a variety of autoantibodies, it can involves many systems and organs. Depositon of the immunity compound in various internal organs of human body is SLE’s pathogenesis. SLE is a kind of the serious connective tissue disease, and regarded as a significant difficult illness, because it can encroach many other systems or organs easily and cause a severe destroy of the human organs and the tissue structure, and it’s clinical symptoms are very complex. According to domestic and foreign pertinent data reports, the SLE morbidity is caused by the factors of heredity, infection, endocrine factor, and environmental. The world annual incidence rate approximately is 4,200,000 people while in china about 18.6% of the morbidity population is only child.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine the property of SLE is regarded as root deficiency and branch excess. Qi deficiency and Yin deficiency are the cause, while the stagnation of pathogenic heat is the manifestation. Many kinds of reasons such like Yin deficiency of liver and kidney, blood deficiency, emotional injury, over exertion, pathogenic heat stagnation, blood stagnation obstructing collaterals, ect can cause the injury of body surface, joint and internal organs. The basic pathogenesis of SLE is essence Yin-dificiency, internal pathogenic heat stagnation and injury viscera together. The treatments for SLE’ causes and manifestations are different, to expel pathogenic heat and stagnation from blood are used for manifestations, to supplement Qi and nourishing Yin and supporting the healthy energy are used for causes. During the treatment different Chinese herbs will be used, these herbs are the charactered by nourishing without greasy, supplementing without stagnation, breaking without injury, and reducing pathogenic factors without injuring essence.

The methods of replenishing Qi, nourishing Yin, and expel pathogenic heat from blood are focus on promoting spleen and supplementing Qi. Because the spleen is acquired constitution, is the source of Qi and blood. Keeping spleen in good condition can help the body rich in Qi and blood.

The treatment principal: to realse pathogenic factors from sweat and urine by ways of removing wind and expelling stagnation in blood, activing blood and eliminating dampenss from blood, expelling pathogenic heat from blood, breaking blood and lessening tumescence. The aims: 1 to enhances the immunity, 2 to increases the white blood cell counting, 3 to elevates the blood platelet, 4 to reduces the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, 5 to reduces the blood capillary permeability, 6 to restores the hemoglobin..

Under the appropriate compatibility of Chinese herbs, the SLE patient’s T cell fuction can be definitely improved and restored, the B cell system's normal control system can be reconstructed, and the B cell system's high active state can be eliminated. So the patients’ anti-virus fuction and immunologic function can be strengthend both, finally the patients can be cured.

1. Effect and composition

★ Effect:
Pure Chinese traditional medicine preparation, expelling pathogenic heat from blood, nourishing Yin and supplementing kidney, be suitable in the SLE with the patten of internal stagnation of pathogenic heat and kidney Yin-efficiency.

★ Composition:
Honeysuckle flower, Tokyo violet herb, weeping forsythia capsule, sargentgloryvine, etc. Indication: Erythema on face and hand, fever, aphtha, dry pharynx, vexation and cardiopalmus, arthralgia, asthenia, tongue texture is crimson or dark red, tongue coating is yellow, and pulse is smooth and fast.

2. Operating instructions

★ Character:
Water pill with beige color, insipidity, mildly bitter flavor

★ Function and indication:
Expelling pathogenic heat from blood, nourishing Yin and invigorate the kidney. Indication: Erythema on face and hand, fever, aphtha, dry pharynx, vexation and cardiopalmus, arthralgia, asthenia, tongue texture is crimson or dark red, tongue coating is yellow, pulse is smooth and fast.

★ Application and dosage：
Orally use，6g one time, 3 times a day

★ Etalon：
Every 100 pills of heavy 10g

★Storing:
To close tightly, damp-proof

3. Announcements：

★Should avoid the meat of sheep, dog, horse, donkey and deer, some cases are observated that the patient who intakes the meat metioned above can induce and aggravate the condition of SLE.

★In TCM Spinach can induce sore, the study nowadays has proved that spinach can increase the nephritis urine protein, and cast, can causes the urine to mix the eclipse and urinary calculus of the SLE. So spinach should be avoided.

★Cauliflower should be avoided, because it cans aggravate alopecia.

★Champignon, celery, and Medicago sativa should be avoided, because they can cause photoperiod-sensitive, erythema on face, and rash.

★Hot pepper, green pepper, garlic, scallion, Chinese chive and longan should be avoided.

★The hyperlipemia which is induced by intaking excitatory autacoid should avoid the foods that are rich in fat and cholesterol, Such as pork with too much fat, pork oil, pig internal organs, chicken oil, fat duck, fat goose, fat beef and mutton, hairtail, eel and so on. And foods rich in sugar can transforms for the cholesterol should be avoided too.

★No alcohol or foods contains alcohol, especially no tonics without instructions or composition label. Nicotine and other harmful ingredients contained in cigarettes can aggravate the SLE vasculitis by stimulating blood vessel wall, so the SLE patients should quit smoking.