[Clinical study of Jiawei Bazhen decoction combined with oxytocin for cervical ripening of qi and blood deficiency type of pregnant women]

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Oxytocin, published as a randomized controlled trial.

To study preliminarily the effect of Jiawei Bazhen decoction combined with oxytocin in promoting cervical ripening of full-term pregnancy women who were in the deficiency of qi and blood type through the syndrome differentiation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). 180 patients that met the inclusion criteria of the study were randomly divided into three groups: the control group(oxytocin group), the treatment group (Jiawei Bazhen decoction combined with oxytocin group), the blank control group (expected and observation group).

Cervical maturity score (Bishop score), vaginal and cervical secretions fetal fibronectin (FFN), the result of induced labor, the result of mother and baby were observed in each group before and after treatment.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 180 patients taking part.

PubMed indexes the participants as young adults and adults, women only.

How the Study Was Run

The design is described as randomized.

Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Oxytocin and who got the comparison, which limits bias.

What Was Measured

Cervical maturity score (Bishop score), vaginal and cervical secretions fetal fibronectin (FFN), the result of induced labor, the result of mother and baby were observed in each group before and after treatment.

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Cervical Ripening, Drugs, Chinese Herbal, Fibronectins, Labor, Induced, Oxytocin, Pregnancy Complications and Pregnancy Outcome.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Oxytocin in 180 patients.

The publication is from 2015 (Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica), a journal based in China.

More context: the Oxytocin compound page, all human trials.