Research progress on clinical applications and mechanisms of Guizhi Fuling Prescription in treating cerebrovascular diseases / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) with high morbidity, disability, mortality, and recurrence rate have become the focus in the medical research. Modern researches have indicated that Guizhi Fuling Prescription (GFP) possesses anti-inflammatory, immune-modulation and anti-oxidative effects and so on. Investigations showed that GFP had been used in the researches of ischemic and hemorrhagic cerebrovascular diseases, mainly used in the clinical research of ischemic cerebrovascular, in which the research of treating acute cerebral infarction gets the best clinical effect of all. In order to provide theoretical reference for intensive research of GFP in treatment of CVD, this article reviewed the research progress in clinical application and mechanisms of GFP in treatment of CVD.