Famous traditional Mongolian medicine Xieriga-4 (Turmeric-4) decoction: A review / 中草药·英文版

Xieriga-4 Decoction, composed of dried rhizomes of Curcumae longae, barks of Phellodendron chinense or Phellodendron amurense, fruits of Cardenia jasminoides, and fruits of Tribulus terrestris, is a famous prescription of traditional Mongolian medicine for the treatment of urinary system diseases such as frequent urination, urgent urination, urine occlusion, hematuria, bladder irritation and pain. This paper reviewed Xieriga-4 Decoction from the aspects of historical description, prescription principle, chemical components, pharmacology, clinical application and quality control.

Study of the relationship between vitamin D deficiency, sunlight incidence and skeletal/extra skeletaldiseases

It is estimated that more than 1 billion people worldwide have vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency. Vitamin D participates in bone mineralization, and is therefore important in osteoporosis, osteomalacia and rickets prevention. However, vitamin D deficiency could also be associated with several other pathologies. The present study aimed to investigate the relationships between vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D deficiency-related disorders in patients. In addition, this study aims to verify if countries with low solar incidence have higher extraskeletal disease death rates when compared to countries with high solar incidence. The vitamin D concentrations were obtained from the Heart Hospital database (Natal/Brazil). The relationship between solar incidenceand death rate for vitamin D deficiency-related disorders was verified. Death rate data were extracted from the 'World Life Expectancy' repository and data about solar incidence were obtained from NASA's Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy project. Thesedata were statistically processed with IBM SPSS v23.0 software and R programming language. Our results showed that patients with vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency showed significantly more bone diseases, thyroid diseases, hypercholesterolemy, hypertriglyceridemia, cancers, diabetes, hepatobiliary diseases, and urinary system diseases. Moreover, countries with high solar incidence have low cancer and multiple sclerosis death rates. This work suggests the participation of vitamin D and sunlight incidence inseveral diseases.

The Value of Multi-slice Spiral CT Urography in Diagnosis of Urinary Obstructive Diseases / 实用放射学杂志

Objective To study the value of multi-slice spiral CT (MSCT)urography in diagnosis of urinary obstructive disease.Methods 48 cases with urinary system obstructive disease confirmed by operotion underwent MSCT scan,including plain and multi-phase contrast-enhanced scans.The images of CTA and CT urography were obtanined by the different three dimensional reconstruction.Results Of 48 cases,there were renal and uretal congenital malformation in 15 cases,uretal negative stone in 4,urinary inflammation in 5 ,renal,uretal and bladder tuberculosis in 6,hydronephrosis and hydroureterosis caused by exterior compression in 8 and neoplasm of urinary system in 10.Conclusion Multi-slice spiral CT urography is of significant applied value in diagnosis of urinary obstructive diseases.