China's national cardiovascular diseases control and treatment office has announced that a new, special Chinese herbal medicine could cut the general toll rate of coronary heart disease by about 33 percent, crienglish.com reported Monday.

According to statistics, the Chinese medicine, popularly known as Xuezhikang, could readjust human blood-fat levels and long-term use could lower the occurrence 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 out amongst 4,870 coronary disease sufferers.

(CRI June 21, 2004)