BACKGROUND Chaihu Guizhi has the effects of treating exogenous wind-cold; alternating episodes of chills and fever; noisy nose and retching; strong headache; chest and rib-side pain, and fullness, in clinical practice, it can also be used for the treatment of depression. The objective of this paper was to study the anti-depressant effect of Chaihu Guizhi decoction and its mechanism. MATERIALS...

PurssEE, a Mahomedan boatman, aged 35, was admitted into the Medical College Hospital on tlie 29th of November, 1866, at 2-45 p.m. Ho had taken with his pawn, about half an hour before, a small portion of aconite root, mistaking it for " coord," a dried root used by the natives to relieve muscular pain. Immediately after chewing it, he felt a sweetish taste, which was soon followed by tingling ...

OBJECTIVE To establish a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method for the determination of baicalin in Xiaoyanling Decoction. METHODS HPLC method was used for determination. A Kromosil C18 column was used. The mobile phase consisted of MeOH-acid water (H(2)O:H(3)PO(4)=53:0.2) 40:60, and the detective wavelength was 277 nm. RESULTS The content of baicalin in each Xiaoyanling Deco...

Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is still a global epidemic despite the introduction of several highly effective direct-acting antivirals that are tagged with sky-high prices. The present study aimed to identify an herbal decoction that ameliorates HCV infection. Among six herbal decoctions tested, the Aeginetia indica decoction had the most profound effect on the HCV reporter activity...

BACKGROUND During the past few years, there has been an increasing interest among the Traditional and Folk medical practitioners of Sri Lanka in the use of a decoction prepared from Flueggea leucopyrus (Willd.) for treating various cancers including breast cancer. In the present study, the cytotoxicity of this decoction and its effects on Heat Shock Protein (HSP) expression and apoptosis were c...