Shen Qi Wan Clinical Applications And Experimental Research

Synopsis of Prescription of the Golden Chamber(in Chinese Jin Kui YaoLue), which was written by Zhang Zhongjing who was an outstanding physicianin the Donghan Dynasty, is the section about mixed diseases in Dissertation ofTyphoid Mixed diseases (in Chinese Shanghan Zabing lun).This essay is theearliest recipe book on mixed diseases diagnose in existence. The formertwenty-two chapters of the book have two hundred and five recipes, most ofwhich have important practical value, especially the Shenqi pill. Not only ZhangZhonging used it to cure many kinds of symptoms but also the succeedingphysicians used it to treat more various kinds of diseases. In the recent times,scientists have obtained various fruits in the experiments research on Shenqi wan.Shenqi wan is composed of Shengdihuang, Shanyad, Shanzhuyu, Zexie, Danpi,Fuling, Guizhi, and Fuzi. Adding a little Fuzi and Guizhi in most of the yin-nourishing medicine, it nourishes but not greasy, warm but not dry. Its purpose isnot to supply heat or to assist Yang but to generate kidney thews. The kidneybecomes thews in a normal way, the Yin and Yang will be peaceful and stable, andthen many kinds of symptoms disappear themselves。In Synopsis of Prescription of the Golden Chamber, Shenqi wan mainlycures five different symptoms. First, the beriberi resulted from kidney weaknessand decline, asthenopia, humid limb. Second, the backache resulted from kidneyweakness and decline. Third, less drinking symptom resulted from kidneyin-normalness and weakness. Forth, the thirst resulted for kidney weakness anddecline, and nutrition and water shortage. Fifth, the symptom of woman turningresulted from kidney weakness and cyst thews shortage. Though diseases arevarious, the main cause is kidney weakness and decline; therefore, it also can becured by Shenqi pill, embodying the idea of different diseases treatment in thesame way。Shenqi wan is widely applied in clinic to cure more than ten diseases inmedicine, gynecology, and pediatrics and so on. In medicine, the breathingsystem has diseases like chronic bronchitis bronchia asthma, emphysema and soon, the endocrine and metabolic diseases like thyroid slowing down, rheumatism, diabetes bladder diseases, and diabetes kidney diseases; the digestive systemdiseases like intestines integrated symptoms, gastroptosis, diarrhoea, andconstipation; The circulatory system diseases like hypertension; and the urinarysystem diseases. In gynecology, there are the climacterium integrated symptomsand the diseases after giving birth. In pediatrics, there are the child urine losing,child fevers. In orthopedics, there are diseases like: chronic lumbar musclestrain, osteoporsis,scapulohumeral periarthritis,prolapse of lumbarlntervertebral niseal.In dentistry, there are symptoms like: perialontitis,ulcerative stomatitis, In ophthalmology, there are diseases like:,centralchorodido-retinitis, In laryngology, there is throat pain. In skin, there are thesymptoms like:cold of Urticaria,Cutanenous Prurutus.In male, there arediseases like: chronic Prostatitis,impotence,Cynecomastia.Shenqi wan has the following functions confirmed through experiments.First, influences in fat metabolism. It can increase elder people's cholesterol levelof blood and decrease index of arteriosclerosis in the same time. Second, theinfluences in blood sugar level; it strengthens insulin's activity and declines theblood sugar level. Third, influences in immunization, it reinforces immunityability of old man and prevents caducity. Fourth, influences in sex hormone level.it makes testosterone and estradiol level ascend. Fifth, influence in blood vessel,it can lengthen time during which rat of anoxia can survive. And it Lengthens thetime of arrhythmia happening. Meanwhile, it can inhibit rat's plateletagglutination. Sixth, influences in generative system, it has some functions thatis like sex hormone. Seventh, influences in build, it enhances synthesis andsecretion of collagen, hence it helps sediment of calcium-phosphate, and it canfasten absorption speed of blood stasis around fracture. Eighth, influences in fatliver, it can make fatty liver syndrome recovery. Ninth, influences in breathingpath inflammation, it can inhibit bronchus inflammation.