Angina Pectoris ; therapy ; Coronary Disease ; therapy ; Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

"Treatment based on diseases identification and formulas corresponding to diseases" is one of important therapy modes of Chinese medicine. Although it originates from Huangdi Neijing, it is seldom systematically discussed. Modern Chinese medicine (CM) now faces diseases mostly with comparatively confirmed Western medical diagnoses. Most of them have specific pathophysiological changes. How to interpret these specific pathophysiological changes, play CM's advantages, and improve clinical efficacies has become an inevitable problem for modern CM in clinic. Authors expounded historic development and clinical application of "formulas corresponding to diseases", and its difference from "formulas corresponding to syndromes", put forward that we should combine "formulas corresponding to diseases" and "formulas corresponding to syndromes" in CM clinics. We should focus on the disease and summarize treatment rules, thereby improving targeted CM formulas.
Drug Compounding ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Syndrome

Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Chronic Disease ; therapy ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Heart Failure ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Yin-Yang

Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods

Animals ; Cardiovascular System ; drug effects ; Curcuma ; Plant Extracts ; pharmacology

Aspirin ; pharmacology ; Drug Resistance ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal ; therapeutic use ; Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Phytotherapy

Calcium Channel Blockers ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Cerebral Infarction ; drug therapy ; Coronary Disease ; drug therapy ; Humans ; Pyrazines ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use ; Vasodilator Agents ; pharmacology ; therapeutic use

Angina, Unstable ; diagnosis ; Humans ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Severity of Illness Index

Panax quinquefolium L., also named American ginseng, is a valuable tonic medicine. Because of its main active ingredient ginsenoside's extensive biological effects, researches on the Panax quinquefolius saponin have important clinical and scientific value. Its basic components, bioactivities, cardiovascular effects and mechanisms will be covered in this paper.
Animals ; Cardiovascular System ; drug effects ; Humans ; Saponins ; pharmacology