Traditional Chinese medicine. Herbal decoction apparatus

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Herbal Decoction

scholarly journals Why Traditional Chinese Medicine can not be a new approach to alleviate the symptoms of COVID-19 ?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geer Chen ◽  
Yehao Luo ◽  
Donghan Xu ◽  
Yuzhou Pang ◽  
Peiqi Ou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Cough Headache ◽  
Herbal Decoction ◽  
Difficulty Breathing ◽  
Severe Type

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has a unique set of therapeutic methods for plagues. COVID-19 is a severe type of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus, which manifests in fever, cough, headache, fatigue, difficulty breathing, and other symptoms. TCM has fully displayed its advantages of various approaches in this epidemic, including herbal decoction, patent herbs, aroma packets, acupuncture, massage, etc. These methods have played an essential role in the prevention, treatment, and nursing of COVID-19, not only in alleviating the early clinical symptoms of patients but reducing the progression from mild to severe symptoms. Thanks to the advantages of treating the pandemic, we should pay more attention to TCM modalities.

scholarly journals Investigation into the Individualized Treatment of Traditional Chinese Medicine through a Series of N-of-1 Trials

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyin Huang ◽  
Peilan Yang ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Yingen Wu ◽  
Suna Zi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Primary Outcome ◽  
Mean Difference ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Herbal Decoction ◽  
Symptom Scores ◽  
Sputum Volume ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
Better Than

Purpose. To compare the efficacy of individualized herbal decoction with standard decoction for patients with stable bronchiectasis through N-of-1 trials. Methods. We conducted a single center N-of-1 trials in 17 patients with stable bronchiectasis. Each N-of-1 trial contains three cycles. Each cycle is divided into two 4-week intervention including individualized decoction and fixed decoction (control). The primary outcome was patient self-reported symptoms scores on a 1–7 point Likert scale. Secondary outcomes were 24-hour sputum volume and CAT scores. Results. Among 14 completed trials, five showed that the individualized decoction was statistically better than the control decoction on symptom scores (P<0.05) but was not clinically significant. The group data of all the trials showed that individualized decoction was superior to control decoction on symptom scores (2.13±0.58 versus 2.30±0.65, P=0.002, mean difference and 95% CI: 0.18 (0.10, 0.25)), 24 h sputum volume (P=0.009), and CAT scores (9.69±4.89 versus 11.64±5.59, P=0.013, mean difference and 95% CI: 1.95 (1.04, 2.86)) but not clinically significant. Conclusion. Optimizing the combined analysis of individual and group data and the improvement of statistical models may make contribution in establishing a method of evaluating clinical efficacy in line with the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine individual diagnosis and treatment.

scholarly journals Quality Control of Danggui Buxue Tang, a Traditional Chinese Medicine Decoction, byH-NMR Metabolic Profiling

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pui Hei Chan ◽  
Wendy L. Zhang ◽  
Chi Yuen Cheung ◽  
Karl W. K. Tsim ◽  
Henry Lam
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Metabolic Profiling ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Chemical Profiling ◽  
Danggui Buxue Tang ◽  
Water Extracts ◽  
Herbal Decoction ◽  
Angelica Sinensis Radix

Danggui Buxue Tang (DBT) is one of the simplest traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) decoctions, first described in China in 1247 AD. DBT is composed of 2 herbs, Astragali Radix (AR) and Angelica Sinensis Radix (ASR), boiled together in a 5 : 1 ratio. Clinically, DBT is prescribed to women as a remedy for menopausal symptoms. Here,H-NMR metabolic profiling was conducted for DBT and the water extracts of AR or ASR, to evaluate the potential of this chemical profiling method for quality control of the herbal decoction. Principal component analysis (PCA) showed that DBT could be readily distinguished from the water extracts of its constituent herbs by the metabolic profiles. More interestingly, the metabolic profile of DBT was not a simple sum of that of AR and ASR. Asparagine was found at significantly higher concentration in DBT than that in either AR or ASR extract, contributing mainly to the discrimination of DBT sample. In addition, we employed the same method to profile a commercial DBT powder, verifying its authenticity as compared to our prepared DBT. This study is the first to employH-NMR metabolic profiling for the quality control of traditional Chinese medicine decoctions.

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