This study was aimed to explore the medication rules of Chinese herbal medicine compound in the treatment of primary dysmenorrheal based on data mining.Relevant literatures on Chinese herbal medicine compound in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea were retrieved from June 2006 to June 2016 in the Chinese Journal Full-text Database (CNKI) to establish a literature database.The Excel 2010,SPSS 22.0 and SPSS Modeler 14.2 software were used in the frequency analysis,cluster analysis,association analysis,and etc.The results showed that literatures related to Chinese herbal medicine compound in the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea,there were 74 compound formula and 76 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine involved.Angelica was the core single Chinese herbal medicine.Chinese herbal medicine with high-frequency usage was the type of removing blood stasis,invigorating qi and blood.Cluster analysis can form 5 clustering combination.Primary dysmenorrhea was mainly clustered to two syndromes,which were qi and blood deficiency with blood stasis,liver and kidney deficiency with qi stagnation and blood stasis.The association rules analysis showed that there were a total of 25 rules,with the most common combination of two or multiple combination from four kinds of Chinese herbal medicine,including Angelica,Radix Paeoniae Alba,Rhizoma Chuanxiong,and Rhizoma Corydalis.It was concluded that blood stasis was the direct cause of primary dysmenorrhea,many of which belonged to the deficiency of root (i.e.,deficiency of qi,blood and cold deficiency) and excess of branch.Chinese herbal medicine treatment should be focused on the regulation of both qi and blood,invigoration of both liver and kidney,as well as harmonization of the blood.

C.citratus has been usedin many countries with a long history.Traditionally,it is applied as a food seasoning in cooking.It is also used in tea beverage and folk medicine as well.Modern application of C.citratus is focused on the development of citronella oil,which can be used for food additives,disinfectants,cosmetics,drugs and etc.C.citratus is also a potential plant in landscaping.Its special lemony flavor contains chemical constituents,mainly including citral,myrcene,linalool,geraniol,nerol,citronellol,and etc.The modern research showed that C.citratus had the main effects of anti-microbial,anti-inflammation,analgesia,anti-oxidation,anti-tumor,anti-anxiety,anti-hypertension,antihyperglycemia,and etc.With further studies,some new pharmacological properties of C.citrates are going to be discovered gradually.It is worthy of further research and development to meet the needs of the health industry.

This paper reviewed recent advances in clinical and basic researches of scalp acupuncture based on evoked potentials (EPs).The role and significance of various EPs in scalp acupuncture were analyzed and compared.Eventrelated potentials (ERPs) which occupied leading position in EPs application nowadays and the latest advances in the related components of its action were combined to make a prospect of the scientific research methods of scalp acupuncture in the treatment of cerebral apoplexy and other diseases.

As the most common organ-specific autoimmune disease,autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) is characterized by intrathyroidal lymphocyte infiltration and specificthyroid autoantibodies.Modern medicine is short of effective etiological treatment at present,and has no specific medicine foreuthyroidism of AIT patients,who have been followed-up passively.Chinese medicine treatmenthas the characteristics of multiple-targets,multiple-links and multiple-pathways,which plays a special superiorityrole in the prevention and treatment of AIT.The purpose of this article was to sort out and set forthmore Chinese medicine pharmacology on AIT recently,which provided evidence for further clinical apply.

Glycosides are the active ingredients (AIs) of many Chinese herbs and have become hot spots along with the findings of their new functions,such as anti-inflammatory,antivirus,enhanced immunity and anti-cancer.It has been found that glycosides exert their effects by converting to aglycons or other AIs in vivo.Therefore,the transformation of glycosides to the corresponding AIs in vitro becomes very important to enhance their bioavailabilities.The microbial transformation has an unparalleled advantage in the transformation of Chinese herbs in vitro for its reaction specificity,less by-products,mild reaction conditions and environmental protection.This paper summarized and prospected researches of glycosides' microbial transformation.

Shu-Xue-Ning (SXN) injection was used as study subject in order to explore the feasibility of pharmacodynamics experiment of Phase 0 clinical trial in Chinese materia medica (CMM).This paper tried to establish key-technique standards which fit to the evaluation on CMM phase 0 (early) clinical evaluations.According to the established research methods,this research selected volunteers and assured low dose SXN injection inside their body.And then,serum before and after medication were collected for the HAEC in vitro experiment.Blood sample of the clinical dosage was used as control to verify the tendency consistency of pharmacodynamics in low dose and clinical dose.The results showed that in the H2O2 inducing HAEC damage experiment,low dose SXN injection can affect the cell proliferation,protect the shape of cells,reduce the release of ion owing to cell damages and influence the secretion in cells.Complete-sequence RNA gave differential multiterm expression before and after the low dose.It was concluded that compared with the clinical group,low dose medication had similar metabolic tendency.The pharmacodynamics experiment of phase 0 CMM clinical trial is feasible.

This study was aimed to establish the pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD) model of ginsenoside Rb1 following the intravenous administration of Shengmai injection in subjects with stable angina pectoris.A total of stable angina pectoris were selected and received Shengmai injection for 14 days.Plasma samples were collected at different time points.Plasma concentrations of ginsenoside Rb1 were determined by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS).The concentration-time curves (AUC) were drawn,and then the PK parameters were calculated.The systolic pressure and diastolic pressure were monitored,and the combined PK-PD model was established based on the theory of effect compartment.The results showed that PK of ginsenoside Rb1 conformed to a mono-compartment model.The effect of Shengmai injection lagged behind the concentrations of ginsenoside Rb1 in plasma.The effect exhibited good correlation with ginsenoside Rb1 in effect compartment.The relationship between effect and plasma concentrations fits the Inhibitory Effect Imax model.It was concluded that the study successfully established the combined PK-PD model of ginsenoside Rb1 in subjects with angina pectoris.The model can efficiently evaluate the effective substance of Shengmai injection.

This study was aimed to establish fingerprints of Citri Sarcodactylis Fructus from different geographical origins,and to use the method of pattern recognition to compare the differences of Citri Sarcodactylis Fructus from different habitats.In this study,high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to establish fingerprints for 25 batches of Citri Sarcodactylis Fructus from 4 habitats.Furthermore,similarity evaluation,cluster analysis (CA) and principal component analysis (PCA) were performed.The results from established fingerprints showed that a total of 26 common peaks were pointed out and 4 peaks were identified as the common peaks.The CA and PCA can be used to compare Citri Sarcodactylis Fructus from different habitats.It was concluded that Cirri Sarcodactylis Fructus in near geographic origins had a higher similarity,while the different geographic origins had a higher difference.

This study was aimed to explore the mechanism of Jia-Yan-Kang-Tai (JYKT) on Th1/Th2 immune cell imbalance in rats with autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT).A total of 40 Lewis rats were made into AIT rat model.Six week later,AIT rats were randomly divided into the model group,low-dose,middle-dose and high-dose JYKT group,with 10 rats in each group.Intragastric administration of deionized water,0.708 g· kg-1,1.417 g· kg-1 and 2.834 g· kg-1 JYKT was given to rats in each group,respectively for 8 consecutive weeks.Serum TgAb and TPOAb were detected.The ratio of Th1 cell,Th2 cell and Th1/Th2 was measured.Contents of IL-4,IL-5,IFN-γ,TNF-α and IL-1oα in plasma were detected.The pathology of thyroid tissues was observed by HE dyeing.The protein expressions of IFN-γ and IL-4 in thyroid tissues were observed under immunohistochemical staining.The results showed that high-dose JYKT group can reduce the level of TPOAb and TGAb,the incidence of thyroiditis,the ratio of Th1 cell,Th2 cell and Th1/Th2;decrease contents of IFN-γ,TNF-α,IL-1α,IL-4 and IL-5 in plasma;reduce the protein expression of IFN-γ and IL-4 in thyroid tissues.It was concluded that JYKT was able to suppress thyroid autoantibodies of AIT rats,which may be related to the regulation of cytokine level and Th 1/Th2 immune cell imbalance.

This study was aimed to investigate potential biomarkers in different traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes of angina pectoris of coronary heart disease (CHD) by using metabolomic technology,and to explore the objective law of different TCM syndromes of CHD.Endogenous metabolites in serum and urine from the healthy group,and patients with DHD angina pectoris patients of the syndrome of Qi deficiency and blood stasis,as well as the syndrome of Qi deficiency,blood stasis and phlegm turbidity were detected by the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS).Metabolic profiles were analyzed by the principal component analysis (PCA) and the orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA).The results showed that in PCA,the healthy group,Qi deficiency and blood stasis group,as well as the Qi deficiency,blood stasis and phlegm turbidity group can be obviously distinguished.Potential biomarkers in the Qi deficiency and blood stasis syndrome contained aspartyl methionine and cysteine sulfinic acid.Potential biomarkers in the Qi deficiency,blood stasis and phlegm turbidity syndrome contained hippuric acid,amino glucose,fructosamine and triglyceride.The objective performance of Qi deficiency syndrome was the absence of biotin,lysyl tyrosine,phosphatidylglycerol and glycocholic acid.It was concluded that through the new metabolomic technology,different endogenous metabolites in the syndrome of Qi deficiency and blood stasis,as well as the syndrome of Qi deficiency,blood stasis and phlegm turbidity of patients with DHD angina pectoris were detected.It provided ideas for the clinical practice of prevention,diagnosis and treatment of different TCM syndromes.