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Depression is a mental or affective disorder， whose occurrence is closely related to the physical， psychological， and social environmental factors. Clinically， patients with depression often present with significant and long-lasting blue mood， impaired thinking and cognitive functions， reduced mobility， and even self-harm and suicide attempts. The pathogenesis of depression is complex and diverse， and there mainly exist the neurotransmitter hypothesis， immunodeficiency hypothesis， hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal （HPA） axis activation hypothesis， brain-derived neurotrophic factor （BDNF） hypothesis， and intestinal flora hypothesis. In western medicine， it is mostly treated with antidepressant drugs， but the resulting side effects and repeated attack cannot be ignored. Traditional Chinese medicine（TCM） has obvious advantages in dealing with depression. The advocates of treating "Qi"， "phlegm"， "stasis"， and "five zang organs" have all been proved effective. Depression is characterized by a long course of disease and repeated attack， which coincides with the concept of "deficiency" in TCM. Tonifying deficiency is a method for treating depression based on TCM syndrome differentiation. Under the guidance of this principle， the formulated prescriptions will produce the desired effects. This article reviewed the related clinical and experimental studies on depression treatment via deficiency tonification in recent years， and summarized the corresponding prescriptions for benefiting Qi， replenishing blood， nourishing Yin， and tonifying yang， respectively， so as to enrich the TCM theory of depression and provide new ideas for its clinical treatment.
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Objective To investigate the effect of Nourishing Yin and Nonifying Yang sequential therapy (NYNYST )com-bined with western medicine on expression levels of Smad2 ,Smad3 ,Smad7 mRNA in rats with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR).Methods Totally 40 female rats were randomly divided into 5 groups ,the normal control group ,the model group ,the western medicine group ,the NYNYST group and the combination group(western medicine combined with NYNYST ) ,8 in each group. The DOR model was established through orally administering tripterygium pill for continuous 2 weeks. The normal con-trol group and the model group were administered with saline for 10 days. The western medicine group was treated with hor-mone replacement therapy(HRT ) and ovarian stimulation. The NYNYST group was administered with Nourishing Yin herbs in proestrus and Nonifying Yang herbs in late estrus and the combination group was administered with combination of Chinese herb and western drugs for 10 days ,with the same dose in the former two groups.Serum levels of FSH ,LH ,E2 ,anti-Müllerian hormone(AMH) ,Transforming growth factor beta 1(TGF-β1)and Inhibin B(INHB)were measured by ELISA.Changes of Smad2 ,Smad3 ,Smad7 mRNA in ovaries were detected by real-time PCR.Results Compared with the model group ,the serum levels of FSH ,LH were decreased significantly in western medicine group ,NYNYST group and combination group(P＜0.01) , the serum levels of E2 ,AMH ,TGF-β1 and INHB increased in the rats of the treatment group(P＜0.05 ,P＜0.01) ,and efficacy of the combination group was significantly superior to that of the western medicine group (P＜0.01 ,P＜0.05);compared with the model group ,Smad2 mRNA increased significantly in NYNYST group and combination group ,Smad3 mRNA increased sig- nificantly in combination group(P＜0.01) ,the efficacy of combination group was superior to that of the western medicine group (P＜0.05);compared with the model group ,Smad7 mRNA of treatment groups was decreased significantly (P＜0.01).Conclu-sion NYTYST combined with western medicine can improve the function of ovaries by up-regulating the expression of Smad2 , Smad3 mRNA and down-regulating the expression of Smad7 mRNA in DOR rats.
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[Objective] This paper introduces the experience of Professor TAN Yong's treatment of the luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome(LUFS) with a view to provide references for the related study.[Methods]Through studying with Professor TAN, collecting and analyzing clinical case data, researching editorial book and articles. From the etiology, pathogenesis and drug selection of the LUFS, the clinical experience of the teacher was discussed, Professor TAN's academic characteristics on the treatment of LUFS were summarized, and a medical case was provided to support the idea.[Results]Professor TAN believes that the pathogenesis of this disease is mostly due to deficiency of the kidney Yin, the weak Yang qi, Yin and Yang conversion is unfavorable during intermenstrual period, combined with pathological factors such as liver depression, blood stasis, and phlegm dampness. Unsmooth running of Qi and blood, so that the follicular can not be discharged smoothly, the disease occurs. In the treatment of combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) and western Medicine, in the intermenstrual period attach importance to the function of the heart and brain, to tonifying kidney and blood circulation as a method, the use of "Tonifying Kidney Stimulating Ovulation" medicine treatment, combined with western medicine, in the clinically achieved good results. The medical case was based on the "Tonifying kidney Stimulating Ovulation" medicine as the basis for the successful pregnancy after the treatment, which fully proved the above mentioned dialectical thinking and treatment experience. [Conclusion]It is worthwhile to learn and promote the treatment of LUFS with tonifying kidney and blood circulation therapy.