Gushukang Osteopenia Osteoporosis

Gushukang Osteopenia Osteoporosis This is a compound herbal remedy used in TCM for the prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis.

My first acquaintance with this remedy came from a study "Progress of study on prevention and treatment of Osteoporosis by compuound Gushukang" by Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi. that was published in March 2007 from the Beijing New Medicine Institute Healthstar Medical Development Co., Ltd.

This Gushukang Osteopenia Osteoporosis study stated: " Gushukang is a compound Chinese herbal preparation. Pharmacological studies indicated that Gushukang can increase bone density, inhibit bone resorption, promote bone formation, and restore bone microstructure, as well as improve bone biomechanical parameters and promote healing of bone fracture. Clinical observations demonstrated that it has favorable efficacy in preventing and treating osteoporosis."

Since the article was in Chinese, I did read the whole thing but I was intrigued by this abstract since it claimed multiple effects for this preparation and most Western drugs do only one thing. I did a search for additional studies and found:

Zhongguo Zhong Xi Yi Jie He Za Zhi. "Clinical study on effect of gushukang granule in preventing and treating primary osteoporosis". >/b>2001. Li SQ, Pei ZG, Liu YM., Second Clinical College of China Medical University, Shenyang 110003.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect and mechanism of Gushukang granule (GSKG), a Chinese herbal preparation, in preventing and treating primary osteoporosis.

METHODS: The total of 197 patients of osteoporosis, whose bone mineral density (BMD) was below 1 standard deviation of the peak bone mass of same sex, with no complications and had not been treated were selected.

Among them, 176 were menopausal females for over 1 year and 21 males aged over 70. The females were voluntarily divided into three groups, the 101 cases in the observed group were treated with GSKG 12 g, three times a day and calcium carbonate 300 mg, twice a day, orally taken for 6 months; the 23 cases in the positive control group were treated with equal volume of calcium preparation alone and the 52 cases in the blank control group were untreated.

All the males were treated in the same way as that in the observed group of female. The BMD level of lumbar vertebrae 2-4 and other related to indexes of bone were determined before and 6 months after treatment.

RESULTS: BMD level in the two control groups lowered by 1.8% after 6 months. While in the observed group, BMD lowered slowly or even increased, after 6 months the average BMD increased by 3.1% in females and by 3.9% in males. The effective rate was 91.1% in females and 95.2% in males. After treatment, the levels of tartrate-resistant acid phosphate decreased, estradiol, testosterone and high density lipoprotein increased in the female observed group, while the above-mentioned indexes unchanged in the control groups.

CONCLUSION: GSKG has the effects in increasing sex hormones (both estrogen and androgen), inhibiting bone absorption, slowing down bone mass loss and elevating BMD, it could prevent and treat osteoporosis effectively. Besides, it could increase the level of high density lipoprotein so as to benefit prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. End of study about Gushukang Osteopenia Osteoporosis.

If treatment with this compound interests you, I suggest you find a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and ask about Gushukang Osteopenia Osteoporosis