Abstract:Objective: To explore the effect and pharmacological mechanism of Xiaoyu Zhixue Tablet (XZT).Methods: XZT mainly composed of Chinese medical herbs to replenish Qi and remove stasis was used to treat patients with idiopathic multifocal bleeding and platelet aggregation defect. Patients were divided into 2 groups, the TCM group (104 cases) treated with XZT, and the control group (84 cases) with vitamin C, K and P, adrenosin and/or artificial menstruation, for at least 4 months.Results: The hemostatic effective rate was 92.3% in the TCM group and 27.4% in the control group (P< 0.005), the recovery rate of platelet aggregation after 6 months’ therapy was 69.2% and only 1.8% respectively. The difference between the two groups was very significant (P < 0.005).Conclusion: XZT could regulate the hemostatic action and platelet aggregation  
Abstract:Objective: To investigate the pharmaceutical effect of Spatholobus suberectus composita (SSC) on bone marrow hematopoiesis and microenvironment of aplastic anemia.Methods: One hundred and six cases of aplastic anemia patients were treated by SSC for 24 months, and the pathological changes of bone marrow of 45 patients were observed before and after treatment, and compared with those of 17 cases of normal volunteers as control.Results: The total effective rate was 77.4%. The volume of nucleated cells changed from 15.7 ± 10.2 vol % to 39.2 ± 13.9 vol%, the percentage of the granulocytes from 31.4 ± 12.4 % to 39.9 ± 10.4%), the erythroblasts from 19.8 ± 15.9% to 36.7 ± 13.5%, megakaryocytes from 1.4 ± 2.3 cell/section to 24.0 ± 24. 6 cell/section), and the microvessel number from 40.0 ± 23.4 ves/100mm2 to 201.0 ± 141.0 ves/100mm2), all the criteria increased significantly (P < 0.01 orP < 0. 05).Conclusion: SSC could not only irritate the hematopoiesis, but also exert reconstructive action to marrow microenvironment.  
Keywords:aplastic anemia;Spatholobus suberectus composita;pathology of bone marrow
Abstract:Objective: To find the effective method in treating infantile chronic aplastic anemia (ICAA) by using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).Methods: Seventy-eight cases of ICAA were observed, 48 in the treated group were treated with Tiaoxue Yisui recipe, and 30 cases in the control group with SSL regimen.Results: The remission rate and total effective rate in the treated group were 52.08% and 81.25% respectively, which were higher than those in the control group (P < 0.05). After one year’s treatment the ratio of hemopoietic and non-hemopoietic cells in the treated group was higher than that in the control group (P < 0.05).Conclusion: Tiaoxue Yisui recipe could improve the living quality of ICAA patients. The therapeutical mechanism of the recipe might be related to its promoting the proliferation of hemopoietic stem cells and regulating the immune function.  
Abstract:Objective: To observe the effect of Fuzheng Kangbai Granule (FZKBG) on long-term survival of patients with acute leukemia, and to study its mechanism in treating minimal residual leukemia.Methods: FZKBG was used to treat 90 cases of completely remitted acute leukemia to observe the effect of treatment on 5-year event free interval (EFI), over survival (OS) and the immune function of patients.Results: Five-year EFI and OS of the 90 cases were 62.4% and 77.2% respectively, and the immune functions after FZKBG therapy were improved significantly.Conclusion: FZKBG could increase the 5-year EFI and 5-year OS, which might be reached through improving immune function of patients.  
Keywords:Fuzhen Kangbai Granule;acute leukemia;quality of life span;immune function
Abstract:Objective: To evaluate the effect of Zhuchun pill (ZCP) on senile Kidney-Yang Deficiency (KYD).Methods: By single blind method, 45 elderly males with KYD were divided randomly into the ZCP group (treated by ZCP) and the control group (treated by placebo, starch capsule) and treated for 3 months.Results: ZCP could greatly improve the main symptoms of KYD,P < 0. 01 in comparison with the control group. After treatment, in the ZCP group, the3H-TdR lymphocyte transformation rate, levels of serum C3, IgA, IgD, IgG and IgM, superoxide dismutase, plasma adrenocortical hormone, testosterone and cyclic adenosine monophosphate all increased,P < 0.01, and plasma lipid peroxide decreased,P < 0.01. While in the control group, no remarkable change was found in these parameters.Conclusion: ZCP could improve the KYD through regulating the immunity, endocrine function and scavenging the free radicals in organism.  
Keywords:Kidney Yang Deficiency;Zhuchun Pill;immunity;endocrine hormone;lipid peroxide;superoxide dismutase
Abstract:Objective: To find effective therapeutic approach for treating true idiopathic precocious puberty suitable to our national condition and different from gonadotrophin releasing hormone analogue.Methods: One hundred and six girls with idiopathic precocious puberty were divided into 3 groups. The 51 girls in the TCM-WM group were treated with Chinese herbal medicine combined with megestrol acetate (MA), 35 girls in the MA group treated with megestrol acetate alone, and 20 girls were taken as control group and given no treatment at all. Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) stimulating test were performed before and after treatment, and the size of the uterus and ovary, linear growth rate, X-ray bone age measurement and final height prediction were also observed simultaneously.Results: After treated with TCM-WM for 2.7 years in average, the luteinizing hormone (LH) peak value of LHRH stimulating test was reduced from 48.5 ± 5.2 IU/L to 12. 2 ± 1.3 IU/L, size of uterus and ovary decreased, secondary sexual characteristics regressed, the bone age difference/chronological age difference value (ΔBA/ΔCA) reduced from 1.35 ± 0.09 to 0.65 ± 0.05 and predictive final height increased from 153.3 ± 0.5 cm to 158.5 ± 0.6 cm.Conclusion: TCM-WM therapy could not only modulate the function of hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis and the development of internal genitalia, but also could decelerate skeletal growth, delay skeletal maturation, and thereby prevent premature epiphyseal fusion and increase the final height of patients.  
Keywords:precocious puberty;Traditional Chinese Medicine;Megestrol;skeletal development;hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis
Abstract:Objective: To study the effect of Dachengqi Decoction in Treating diabetic gastric retention.Methods: Twenty Patients of diabetic gastric retention were treated with Dachengqi Decoction with their electrogastrogram, urinary glucose and clinical symptoms observed.Results: After treatment, the parameters of electrogastrogram and urinary glucose lowered significantly, and the symptoms relieved. The effect of the treated group was significantly better than that of the control group who were treated with metoclopramide.Conclusion: Dachengqi Decoction is an effective recipe in treating diabetic gastric retention.  
Abstract:Objective: To observe the effect of combined therapy of acupoint injection and Chinese herbal medicine ion-introduction in treating mammary gland hyperplasia (MGH).Methods: Eighty-six patients of MGH were treated with the combined therapy and compared with a control group treated with other Chinese or western drugs.Results: Therapeutic effect evaluated after 3 courses of treatment showed that the effect of combined therapy was superior to that of the control groups treated by Xiaoyao Pill, Rupixiao tablet, Asparagine tablet and combined therapy of vitamin E+oryzanol+vitamin B6.Conclusion: Combined treatment of acupoint injection and ion-introduction of Chinese herbal medicine is an effective treatment for mammary gland hypertrophy.  
Keywords:Acupoint Injection;ion-introduction of Chinese herbal medicine;mammary gland hyperplasia
Abstract:Objective: To observe the acting pattern on the immune system by Kidney tonifying (KT) drugs.Methods: Three composite recipes were used on the 7- and 14-day corticosterone rat model to study the effect of recipes on the different patterns of immuno-modulatory and neuro-endocrinological systems.Results: The immune system of Spleen Invigorating (SI) group was well protected in either 7- or 14-day experiments, with the SI recipe showing no effect on the neuroendocrine system. It suggested that SI recipe might have direct action on immune system. On the other hand, KT group with no effect on neuroendocrine-immune (NEI) system in 7-day experiment, but showed a remarkable protective effect of the whole NEI system in 14-day experiment.Conclusion: The results indicated that KT recipe acts on the neuroendocrine system first, and then influence the immune system. It means that the action took place through down pathway of NEI network.  
Abstract:Objective: To explore the therapeutic mechanism of the combined use of Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, ligustrazine and Radix Sanchi in treating late hemorrhagic shock in rabbit.Methods: Rabbit hemorrhagic shock models were set up according to Wiggers’ method and treated with the combined therapy. Levels of RBC superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, plasma malondialdehyde (MDA), blood lactate (BL) and magnesium (Mg++) were continuously monitored before shock, 120 minutes after shock, 60 and 120 minutes after reinfusion.Results: (1) Levels of SOD decreased and MDA, BL, Mg++ increased markedly 120 minutes after shock, indicating that there existed cell membrane damage caused by oxygen free radicals in hemorrhagic shock. (2) The combination therapy could alleviate lipid peroxidation injury to tissue, enhance the activity of SOD and lower the concentration of MDA significantly,P < 0.01 or 0.05, as compared with the control group.Conclusion: The combined use of the three drugs could gain the same effect with half dosage as that gained from the whole dosage of one single drug. It could also reduce the negative effect of treatment, such as hypotension and slowing down of heart rate  
Abstract:Objective: To explore the possibility of using cortical infrared thermography (CIT) and temperature in studying the principle of acupuncture and moxibustion.Methods: The changes of the cerebral cortical temperature during electro-acupuncture (EA) measured by CIT in twenty cats were observed. By opening the skull before experiments, the cortex of animals was revealed. The distribution of the cortical temperature of the awakened animals was studied by AGA infrared thermovision, and the thermograms were analysed by computer.Results: (1) The thermograms of the profile of the cortex could be displayed clearly, the temperature was higher in the ante and lower in post-cortex than that in other regions. (2) No tendency of cortical temperature ascending within 30 minutes in cats without EA. (3) After EA, the temperature of cortex generally increased by 0.3 to 1.7 degrees centigrade, and 5 min after EA, the increment of temperature was the highest, 10 min after EA, the temperature increment was higher than before EA, but lower than 5 min after EA. The cortical temperature recovered 10 min after stopping the stimulation. (4) The temperature increment was more obvious in the regions of ant. ectosylvian, ant. supra-Sylvian and ant. Sylvian than that in other regions. No matter where the site of EA was, every group had its own special region of higher temperature increment.Conclusion: The temperature increased in the cortex were mainly in the somatosensory regions. The extent and position of temperature response of cortex after EA could be displayed with CIT directly by picture. The display of the temperature response could be taken as the indication of the nervous activity. CIT could be used to conduct the studies of the acupuncture and the brain.  
Abstract:Objective: Radiographic contrast media can induce renal failure and it may serve as an experimental model of acute renal failure (ARF). The study was aimed to determine the protective effect of Shengmai Injection (SMI) on contrast medium-associated ARF in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats.Methods: Twenty healthy SD rats of both sex were randomly divided into two groups, Group A (control group) treated with glycerin+0. 9% saline+meglucamine diatrizoate, and group B (preventive group) with glycerin+SMI+meglucamine diatrizoate.Results: In Group B, the levels of blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, renal phospholipase A2 (PLA2) and calcium were all significantly lower than those in Group A,P < 0.01. The results indicated the renal injury induced by meglucamine diatrizoate was alleviated by SMI.Conclusion: SMI could prevent renal tissue from contrast media induced nephropathy in SD rats. The effect may partially owe to its preventing intracellular calcium accumulation, inhibiting PLA2 activity and dilating renal vessels.