Clinical and Experimental Study on Prevention and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Diseases with Shengmai Powder / 中国药师

ABSTRACT

Shengmai powder, as the most famous decoration of invigorating qi and Yin in Chinese Medicine, has the function of cardiac effects and restoring pulse. It is mainly used to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease in the clinic, and has obvious curative effect. Shengmai powder, could applied in diseases of the neuropsychiatric system as the same, according to the TCM basic theory which is"heart has the function of controlling spirit, consciousness and thinking", while few researches can be found sporadically. The related literature during late 20 years were collected, selected, combed and commented from two aspects of clinical application and ex-perimental pharmacology in order to offer a reference for expanding application of Shengmai powder in neuropsychiatric disease as while. The clinical reports indicated that Shengmai powder, its modified formulas or combination with western-medicine may have effects on many neuropsychic diseases, such as major depressive disorder( MDD) , cerebral apoplexy, Alzheimer disease( AD) , hyperkinetic syndrome of childhood , sudden deafness( SD) , peripheral nerve disease( PN) , neurological dysfunction and so on. It may also reduce toxic and side effects of antipsychotics. Pharmacology experiments results showed that Shengmai powder has lots of functions, for in-stance, Anti-psychology stress, lipid-decreasing, and improving blood rheology and cerebral functions. It provides pharmacological ref-erence on the prevention and treatment in neuropsychic disease applied by Shengmai powder.