YiQiFuMai (YQFM) powder injection has been reported to be used in cardiovascular and nervous system diseases with marked efficacy. However, as a treatment against diseases characterized by hypoxia, lassitude, and asthenia, the effects and underlying mechanisms of YQFM in neuronal mitochondrial function and dynamics have not been fully elucidated. Here, we demonstrated that YQFM inhibited mitoch...

in each case varied during the succeeding days and the general attitude varied from extreme lassitude and drowsiness on the one hand to hyperesthesia and clonic spasms on the other. The height of the clinical reaction occurred on the 7th to 9th days, retrogressing to normalcy on the 14th day with the animals remaining normal on the 20th day. Using a very active sample of the same virus, White L...

Hypertension is a clinical common disease, with high mortality and disability. Although there have also been significant advances in therapeutic concepts and measures, it has shown a certain value and significance in the treatment of Chinese medicine. The control strategy on hypertension is described from the following aspects such as differentiation of symptoms, pathogenesis, formula syndrome,...

Liver fluke disease is a chronic parasitic inflammatory disease of the bile ducts. Infection occurs through ingestion of fluke-infested, fresh-water raw fish. The most well-known species that cause human infection are Clonorchis sinensis, Opisthorchis viverrini and Opisthorchis felineus. Adult flukes settle in the small intrahepatic bile ducts and then they live there for 20-30 years. The long-...

A 75-year-old male was admitted to the hospital in November 2002 with high-grade fever (above 38°C), cough, hypoxia, and progressive general lassitude. Laboratory findings showed the folowing: hemoglobin level, 5.9 g/dl; leukocytes, 31,890/μl with 79.5% blast; platelet count, 26,000/μl; and reticulocytes, 0.877%. There were no morphological abnormalities of the red blood cels at that time. Othe...

In 1944 Hamman and Rich described an acute form of diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis in four patients who died within six months of the onset of symptoms. Many cases with a similar syndrome have since been reported. The majority of these, however, have run a more chronic course and the outcome has not always been fatal. The disorder has been fully reviewed by Rubin and Lubliner (1957) and...

OBJECTIVE Trichloroacetic acid (TCAA), or trichloroethanoic acid, is a chemical analogue of acetic acid where three methyl group hydrogen atoms are replaced by chlorine. TCAAs are also abbreviated and referred to as TCAs, causing confusion with the psychiatric antidepressant drug class, especially among patients. TCAAs exist in dermatological treatments such as chemical peels or wart chemoablat...

In discussing the clinical management of leu kemia, it would appear desirable to review briefly the pathology and the signs and symptoms of the disease. Leukemia is primarily a disease of the blood and blood-forming organs. The normal marrow is made up of three separate components : the myeloid elements which produce the polymorphonuclear leukocytes of the peripheral blood; the erythroid elemen...

ANY model of the diabetic syndrome must be dynamic because the homeostatic processes which underlie the diabetic syndrome are themselves dynamic and the diabetic syndrome in this view is the pattern of derangements, some permanent, some reversible, which occur in the body when the homeostatic devices which are continuously attempting to return the levels of blood glucose and other associated me...

A 40-year-old woman presented with lassitude, malaise, abdominal dyscomfort and fever of several weeks’ duration. Three days earlier, she noticed jaundice of the skin. Her medical history included Sjogren syndrome treated with prednisolone and azathioprine. She had no history of renal insufficiency. At admission, she was overweight, had icteric sclera and skin, blood pressure of 160/80mmHg and ...