Research progress in chemical compositions and pharmacological effects of Dachengqi Decoction and predictive analysis on its quality marker / 国际中医中药杂志

Dachengqi Decoction is a classic prescription attacked by Yangming excessive syndromes in clinic, which has the effects of relieving heat, softening and dispersing knots, etc., and is often used in the treatment of gastrointestinal dysfunction caused by various diseases. This article reviewed the recent studies on the chemical compositions and pharmacological effects of Dachengqi Decoction in recent years. On this basis, combined with the "five principles" of TCM quality markers, the quality markers of Dachengqi Decoction were predicted and analyzed. It is suggested that emodin, Rhein, chrysophanol, aloe-emodin, synephrine, hesperidin, naringin, magnolol and magnolol can be used as quality markers of Dachengqi Decoction.

Comparative analysis of postoperative adjuvant radio-chemotherapy and simple chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer / 重庆医学

Objective To analyze and compare the short-term efficacy and daverse reaction of postoperative adjuvant radio -chemotherapy versus simple chemotherapy in advanced gastric cancer .Methods A total of 64 patients with locally advanced gastric cancer were randomly but equally divided into 2 groups ,experimental group and control group .The experimental group patients ini-tially receive 4-cycles chemotherapy with Capecitabine Tablets 1 000 mg /m2 ,bid ,d1 - 14 plus Oxaliplatin 130 mg/m2 ,d1 ,and then receive Capecitabine Tablets 825 mg /m2 ,bid ,d1 - 35 plus 3DCRT 45 Gy/25 Fx /5 w concurrent radio-chemotherapy .Control group patients receive 6-cycles Capecitabine plus oxaliplatin combined chemotherapy .Then we observed the disease progression time ,toxic reaction ,1 year survival rate and 2 year survival rate simultaneously in two groups .Results The follow-up rate were 100% .The comparative results are listed as follows (experimental group and control group) :the rates of Ⅰ /Ⅱ grades of nausea and vomiting were 87 .50% and 62 .50% respectively (P 0 .05) and 84 .38% ,62 .50% respectively (P <0 .05) ;2-year overall survival rate and recurrence-free survival rate were respectively 84 .38% ,59 .38% (P< 0 .05) and 75 .00% , 50 .00% respectively (P< 0 .05) .Conclusion The advantages of 3DCRT combined with Capecitabine Tablets chemoradiotherapy can raise the successful rate of local control in patients with advanced gastric cancer after operation and 4 cycles chemotherapy .The toxic reactions are tolerable for patients .