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Holistic medicine is an interdisciplinary field that integrates all types of biological information (proteins, small molecules, tissues, organs, external environmental signals, etc.) to provide predictable and operational models for healthcare and disease treatment. Despite the global and integrative character of this discipline, scientific evidences to clarify the mechanism of holistic medicine is still lacking. Systems pharmacology, as a newly developed discipline based on the interdisciplinary and integration of classical pharmacology, computer technology, bioinformatics, and network pharmacology, has systematically studied the interaction between drugs and the human body, as well as its law and nature at the molecular, cellular, organ and network levels. Since its birth in 2011, this discipline has been widely used in the research of the promotion of holistic medicine, compound analysis, the development of new drugs, and interpretation of basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In this paper, in order to provide new methods and ideas for the modernization of holistic medicine, the authors introduce the research ideas of systems pharmacology of TCM in detail, and the mechanism of holistic medicine in the treatment of complex diseases is explained by sorting out the researches of systems pharmacology on multi-component, multi-target, multi-pathway, multi-function, compatibility of TCM, etc.
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Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy (BCBT) may solve the problem of technology promotion in traditional cognitive behavior therapy,with high cost-effectiveness,so in recent years,BCBT has been popularized and developed in western medical institutions.The existing researches on the treatment of depression with BCBT are still less and limited,and the research design and quality should be further improved.
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Objective: To establish a stress ulcer model by seawater immersion and restriction in rats, and to investigate the mechanism of preconditioning on stress ulcer and the effect of different stressing periods on the ulcer. Methods: A total of 60 male Wistar rats were equally divided into 6 groups, namely, the normal control group (Group A), direct stress group(Group B), precondition group I (Group C), precondition group II (Group S), precondition group III (Group E), and ranitidine group (Group F). Precondition peroids of C,D,E groups were 0.5 h/d, 1 h/d, and 1 h/d, respectively, for 5 days. Stress time in E group was 10 h,and in B,C,D,and F groups were 8 h. Radioimmunoassay was used to determine the sets levels of endothelin (ET) and 6-dk-dPGF1α in rats. Ulcer index was calculated by Guth method; the ulcer lesion tissues were collected for further pathological examination. Results: The sera ET levels in group C, D and F were lower than those in group B(P<0.01,P< 0.05,and P<0.01, respectively). The sera 6-dk-dPGF1α levels in group C, D and F were significantly higher than those in group B(P<0.01,P<0.05,and P<0.01, respectively). The ulcer indices in group C, D and F were significantly lower than those in group B (P<0.01,P<0.05,and P<0.01, respectively). The pathological results were improved in group C, D, and F compared with those in group B. Conclusion: Preconditioning can effectively reduce the rat stress ulcer,but long-time stressing may offset the protective effect of precondition.