We evaluate prospectively the effects of traditional herbal medicines on elevation of aqueous flare after complicated @entity231 surgery. Twenty-seven @entity1 with bilateral complicated @entity231 undergoing phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation were studied. The @entity1 received no herbal medicine when the right eyes underwent @entity231 surgery. Fifteen @entity1 were given kakkon-to (ge-gen-yang in Chinese) granules (7.5 g daily) and 12 @entity1 were given sairei-to (cai-ling-tang in Chinese) granules (9.0 g daily), for 3 days before surgery, the day of surgery, and for 7 days after surgery when the @entity735 underwent @entity231 surgery. Diclofenac eyedrops were instilled in all @entity1 . Aqueous flare was measured before and after surgery. The differences in preoperative flare intensities between groups treated with Kakkon-to and Sairei-to were not significant. In the untreated right eyes of the kakkon-to and Sairei-to groups, the flare was 99.1 and 89.6 photon counts/msec, respectively, on day 1, and then gradually decreased. The flare intensities on days 1, 3, and 5 in the kakkon-to treated @entity735 were significantly lower than in those of the untreated right eyes (Fig. 1). The flare intensities in the Sairei-to treated @entity735 were the same as those in the untreated right eyes. Kakkon-to contributed to a reduction of aqueous flare elevation after surgery for complicated @entity231 .

Effects of kakkon-to and sairei-to on aqueous flare elevation after complicated XXXX surgery.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity735 :: ('MESH:D005124', 'Disease') :: ['left eyes'] @entity231 :: ('MESH:D002386', 'Disease') :: ['cataract']
@entity231 :: (MESH:D002386,Disease) :: ['cataract']
