What traditional Chinese medicines can be used to treat AIDS?

Some traditional Chinese medicines can directly kill HIV, while others indirectly enhance the phagocytosis of macrophages and promote the production of antibodies.

(1) Chinese medicine for enhancing phagocytosis of macrophages. Ginseng, American ginseng, Radix Pseudostellariae, Radix Astragali, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Ganoderma lucidum, Poria, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, etc.

(2) Traditional Chinese medicine for promoting antibody production and improving lymphocyte transformation. Cinnamon, aconite, epimedium, Cynomorium songaricum, dodder, etc.

(3) Traditional Chinese medicine for prolonging antibody survival. Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Scrophulariae, Radix Adenophorae, Carapax Trionycis, Caulis Spatholobi, Colla Corii Asini, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, etc.

(4) Anti-AIDS traditional Chinese medicine. Polyporus umbellatus, Prunella vulgaris, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Scutellariae Barbatae, Hypericum japonicum, Ranunculus ternatus, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, etc.