Recent advances on genuineness evaluation of Lingnan herbal drugs / 中国中药杂志

Chinese medicine is the traditional treasure of China nation. As the basis of Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) plays an important part for the development of Chinese medicine. Genuine medicinal materials with special characteristics of TCM growing in special ecological environment, is recognized as the high quality medicine. Research on genuineness evaluation of TCM is the key to ensure its clinical applications, efficacy and the process of modernization and internationalization for Chinese medicine. Lingnan region of China is situated in the tropical and subtropical zones, where there are rich geothermal and hydrothermal resources. The superior natural and geographic environment of Lingnan has given birth to a variety of native herbal drugs. And treating and preventing diseases with Lingnan herbal drugs has a long story. This study mainly evaluated the genuineness of Lingnan herbal drugs from the aspects of ecological factor, thegenetic information, the history, the culture, the clinical efficacy and the processing, and proposed a new idea to investigate the genuineness of TCM, aiming to provide a scientific basis for genuineness evaluation.

Advances in repair of compound tissue defects of limbs / 中华创伤骨科杂志

It is a clinically tough problem to repair compound tissue d efects of limbs. Application of microsurgical technique with autologous pedicel or free tissue grafts has saved numerous invalid limbs with tissue defects, and is still an essential method to restore compound tissue defects of limbs and res love effectively many difficult problems, such as larger solf tissue defects,seg mental bone defects, bone-skin compound defect, and etc. Microsurgical repair i n emergency has special value in treating compound tissue defects of hand. Altho ugh the resource of autologous tissue graft as donator is limited, tissue engine ering and gene technology hold the promise of revolutionary advances in repairin g compound tissue defects of limbs. Because of the achievements made in the fiel ds of trauma repair and tissue regeneration, both structure and function will be hopefully restored.