China's national cardiovascular diseases control and treatment office announced here Sunday that anew, special Chinese herbal medicine could cut the general toll rate of coronary heart disease by about 33 percent.

According to statistics by a research team under the Ministry of Health, the Chinese medicine, popularly renowned among people as "Xuezhikang", could readjust human blood-fat level and a longtime taking of it could drop the incurrence rate of the disease by over 45 percent and the recurrence rate of non-fatal myocardial infarctions by some 60 percent.

The effect was determined on the basis of a four-year survey carried among 4,870 coronary disease sufferers from 65 hospitals in 19 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, according to the office.

Hong Zhaoguang, a prestigious cardiovascular professor and the head of a special experts team under the Ministry of Health responsible of reviewing health outcome, acknowledged that the medicine has also provided a world of difference on the preventionand control of blood-fat's effect on coronary disease patients in the east who have already contracted on a massive scale from the affliction of such a disease.

Source: Xinhua