OBJECTIVETo observe clinical therapeutic effect of fuzhong (supporting the middle-jiao) manipulation of tuina for infantile anorexia.

METHODSEighty-one children with anorexia were treated with fuzhong manipulation, including abdominal kneading, acupressure at Zhongwan (CV 12), Lanmen (Extra), Tianshu (ST 25), Zusanli (ST 36), Sanyinjiao (SP 6), spine pinching, warm moxibustion and warm scraping with supporting-yang cupping, three times a week, six times as a session. Onset time, therapeutic effect and TCM symptom scores before and after treatment were observed after two sessions and differences of therapeutic effect among different patterns were compared.

RESULTSSeventy-two children had the effect in one session while 41 children had the effect within half of a session. 38 cases were clinically cured, 15 cases were markedly effective, 23 cases were effective and 5 cases were failed. The total effective rate was 93.8%. Compared with before treatment, TCM symptom scores, including appetite, food intake, complexion and defecation, were all obviously improved after treatment (all P < 0.001). The clinical cured rate was 45.2% (19/42) in the pattern of dysfunction of spleen in transportation, 45.8% (11/24) in the pattern of qi deficiency of spleen and stomach, 50.0% (4/8) in the pattern of yin deficiency of spleen and stomach, 57.1% (4/7) in the pattern of liver sufficiency and spleen insufficiency, which had no obvious differences among different patterns (all P > 0.05).

CONCLUSIONThe fuzhong manipulation of tuina has quick onset time and satisfied clinical therapeutic effect, which could obviously improve symptoms and is fit for different patterns of infantile anorexia.

Adolescent ; Anorexia ; physiopathology ; therapy ; Child ; Child, Preschool ; Eating ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Male ; Massage ; Meridians ; Spleen ; physiopathology ; Stomach ; physiopathology ; Yin Deficiency ; physiopathology ; therapy

Objective To study the characteristics of life events, coping styles and social supports in anxiety disorders patients. Methods 50 patients with generalized anxiety disorders (GAD), 44 patients with obsessivecompulsive disorders (OCD),23 patients with social anxiety disorders (SAD) and 99 healthy people were assessed by life event scale(LES),simplified coping style questionnaire(SCSQ) and social support rating scale (SSRS). Results Compared with healthy people, patients with GAD, OCD and SAD were all had higher scores of total life events (GAD 22.46±18.44;OCD 23.68±28.31;SAD 17.22±14.97;Healthy People 6.64±9.71)( F =14.216,P =0.000) and negative life events(GAD 18.76±17.99;OCD 20.02±24.98;SAD 12.00±13.16;Healthy People 4.56±7.51)( F =14.391,P =0.000).All patients were apt to choose positive styles less( F =16.505,P =0.000) and got less social supports totally ( F =26.506,P =0.000). The objective social supports( F =7.494,P =0.000)and subjective social supports ( F =26.985,P =0.000) were less and the utilization of social supports was lower ( F =13.931,P =0.000) in patients.Conclusions 1. Anxiety disorders patients often experience more or more serious life events, especially negative life events, are more likely to choose negative coping styles, and get less social supports. 2. Anxiety disorders may be related with people's characteristics of life events, coping styles and social supports.

Objective To study the symptom dimensions of Chinese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD). Methods Symptom checklist in expert versions of Dimensional Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compul-sive Scale (DY-BOCS) was used to assess the symptom dimensions of 139 OCD patients. Results Nearly half of the patients had one dimension (50.4%). The frequency of patients with two or three dimensions was 24.5% and 14.4%. Patients with four to seven dimensions were very few and the frequency were 5.8% ,3.6% ,0.7% and 0.7% ,respectively. The most common symptom dimensions were symmetry (67.6%), contamination (43.2%) and aggressive (31.7%). The frequency of patients with miscellaneous, somatic, sex and religious, hoarding di-mension were 18.7%, 11.5% , 10.8% ,8.6% ,respectively. The frequency of male patients with symmetry dimen-sion was higher than that of the female patients(75.8%/52.1%, P<0.01), and the frequency of female patients with contamination dimension was higher than that of male patients (56.3%/36.3%, P<0.05). There were no differences in other dimensions between male and female patients. The early-onset patients had a greater of symp-toms in the symmetry dimension than late-onset patients and there were no differences between these two groups in other dimensions (77.6% vs 60.5%, P<0.05 ) . Conclusion Preliminary data suggest that the symptom di-mension approach may aid in the identification of subtype of OCD.

Humans ; Hypertension, Pulmonary ; metabolism ; Iron ; metabolism ; Metabolic Diseases

Adaptive Immunity ; Animals ; Humans ; Periodontitis ; immunology

To develop a method to estimate the anti-Aspergilli activity of active ingredients of Chinese herbs. With the broth microdilution testing procedure proposed by NCCLS, anti-Aspergilli activity of active ingredients ( cinnamalde-hyde, cinn. and citral) of Chinese herbs was determined.The MIC values of cinn. to Aspergillus flavus, A.fumigatus were 0.100?g /mL , 0.050?g/mL.The MIC values of citral to A. flaws, A.fumigatus were 2.600?g/mL, 0.650?g/ mL.These results demonstrate that citral and cinn. have high potency activity against Aspergillus spp. .The research may provide references to establishing a standard for evaluating the effect of anti-Aspergilli Chinese herbs.

A high Streptolydigin-producing strain Streptomyces lydicus AS 4.2501-L8 with genetic stability was obtained from the original strain S. lydicus AS 4.2501-P28 by mutagenesis with UV and acridine orange, followed by resistance selection. Its yield of Streptolydigin was 177.0 ?g/mL, 96.2% higher than the original strain.

Viable but non-culturable state in bacterial cells as received uncultured microorganism has be- come the fundamental research issues in medical microbiology, epidemiology, general microbial ecology and sanitation quarantine since it was put forward in 1982. When in this state, bacterium are no longer able to grow and form colonies on conventional culture media, but maintain their patheogenicity, may become latent infection escaping detection to threaten enviroment and human security. With the development of modern molecular biology technique and metagenomics, it provide new research method and opportunity for uncul- tured microorganism in the environment. Recently, with the application of the metagenome technique, ge- netic fingerprinting technical etc, it becomes more and more popular. Simultaneously, along with this state become maturity in the laboratory. It provides a new research route for development and exploitation the uncultured microorganism.

Objective To investigate the relationship of external hydrocephl(EH) with brain-injure in the neonate.Methods By performing on the patients with brain-injure with CT and making the clinical study,the change of brain following injure and its relationship with EH were analyzed.Results Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy(HIE) were 36 cases,EH were 19 in the cases,6 get the cerebrospinal symptom;SAH were 22 cases,EH were 15 in the cases,3 get the cerebrospinal symptom;Intracranial hemorrhage were 8 cases,EH were 3 in the cases,3 got the cerebrospinal symptom.Conclusion All the kinds of brain-injure can get EH and the rate of EH with any brain-injure is no different.But the outcome is significantly different.

Congresses as Topic ; Laryngeal Diseases ; Otolaryngology ; Pediatrics ; Pharyngeal Diseases