A Clinical Study of Yi-Gan-San and Yi-Gan-San-Jia-Chen-Pi-Ban-Xia.

Reduction of Lipid Accumulation in Adipocytes by Yi-Gan-San

Abnormal lipid metabolism in adipose tissue is closely related to the occurrence and progression of a wide variety of metabolic syndromes. We have analyzed the pharmacological effects of Chinese herbal medicines on cell differentiation and lipid metabolism in adipocytes. Yi-Gan-San (YGS) is a Chinese herbal medicine that is effective in treating the behavioral and psychological symptoms of deme...

Yi-Gan San Restores Behavioral Alterations and a Decrease of Brain Glutathione Level in a Mouse Model of Schizophrenia

The traditional Chinese herbal medicine yi-gan san has been used to cure neuropsychological disorders. Schizophrenia can be one of the target diseases of yi-gan san. We aimed at evaluating the possible use of yi-gan san in improving the schizophrenic symptoms of an animal model. Yi-gan san or distilled water was administered to mice born from pregnant mice injected with polyinosinic-polycytidil...

Study on the antiviral activity of San Huang Yi Gan Capsule against hepatitis B virus with seropharmacological method

BACKGROUND Seropharmacology arising recently is a novel method of in vitro pharmacological study on Chinese herb using drug-containing animal serum. As seropharmacology possesses the advantages of experiments in vitro and in vivo, it is increasingly applied in pharmacological research on Chinese medicine. However, some issues of seropharmacology remain controversial and need to be clearly defin...

Two Japanese Adverbials and Expressive Content

We can think of yoku and yoku(mo) as expressing the attitude of the speaker to the proposition φ in their scope. Both express that φ is surprising, but differ in that yoku expresses that the speaker feels positively about φ, while yokumo expresses that the speaker feels negatively about φ. Other subtle differences exist, as will be shown below. It should be noted that other uses of yoku (but no...

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