Schizandrae Fructus (SF) and Hoveniae Semen cum (HSCF) have long been used as medicinal herbs for treating various diseases in Asian traditional medicine. In the current study, we investigated protective effect of fermented SF pomace HSCF extract 1:1 (w:w) combination mixture (MSH) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced acute liver injury mice. After MSH (50–200 mg/kg) oral administration ...

In this paper, the feasibility and advantages of employing high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) fingerprints combined with pattern recognition techniques for quality control of Shenmai injection were investigated and demonstrated. The Similarity Evaluation System was employed to evaluate the similarities of samples of Shenmai injection, and the HPLC generated chromatographic data were...

Acute upper respiratory tract infections (AURTIs) are the illnesses caused by an acute infection with various viruses and bacteria involving the upper respiratory tract. Shuanghuanglian (SHL) injection, a Chinese medicine intravenous preparation extracted from honeysuckle, Scutellaria baicalensis, and fructus forsythiae, is commonly used to treat AURTIs. Although it is used largely in Chinese h...

A ultraperformance liquid chromatography (UPLC)-photodiode array (PDA) detection method was established for the simultaneous determination of seven constituents in Fructus aurantii-Magnolia bark decoction: naringin, hesperidin, neohesperidin, narirutin, meranzin hydrate, honokiol and magnolol. These were separated in <17 min using a C18 column with gradient elution using (a) acetonitrile, (b) w...

A simple, sensitive and selective method of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) has been successfully developed for separation of bavachinin enantiomers in Fructus Psoraleae and rat plasma. The separation and detection conditions of HPLC were optimized. Chiral bavachinin were separated with the mobile phase of methanol and water (70:30, v/v) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. The linear ra...

The Chinese medicine herb pair Flos Lonicerae japonicae (FLJ) and Forsythiae fructus (FF), is a representative heat-clearing (qing re) and detoxifying (jie du) combination that exhibits many pharmacological activities, including antibacterial, antiviral, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant effects. Extensive phytochemical studies have identified a series of bioactive compounds, such a...

From our research we noticed that Acanthi balcanici herba (ABH) contains luteolin and quercetol and Myrtillus fructus (M-fr) contains chlorogenic acid, apigenol and rutoside. ABH has no antibacterial effect on any species tested, completely cancel the therapeutic effect of three drugs (amoxicillin + clavulanic acid, levofloxacin, amikacin) and have no significant effect on the other two antibio...

BACKGROUND Mori Fructus and Mori Ramulus are two traditional Chinese herbal medicines from mulberries. The present work explores their beneficial effects on •OH-treated mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and discusses possible mechanisms. METHODS Lyophilized aqueous extracts of Mori Fructus (LAMF) and Mori Ramulus (LAMR) were prepared and analyzed using HPLC. LAMF and LAMR (along with morin) were ...