*Source　Recipe in “Danxi Treating Method" from Zhu Zhenheng of Yuan Dynasty,1282-1358 A.D. Carried in Pharmacopoeia of P.R.China (1995 Edition).*Chief Ingredients　Wolfberry fruit, Dodder seed, Chinese raspberry seed, Schisandra fruit and Plantain seed.*Explanation　Wolfberry can nourish Yin blood and essence, benefit visual power, Dodder tonify Liver and Kidney, nourish essence and calm fetus, Raspberry nourish Yin and astringe essence, Schisandra nourish Lung and Kidney, produce body fluid, Plantain increase urine to clear heat and benefit the visual power.*Function　Tonify Kidney and replenishing essence, strengthening Kidney-Yang to treat emission and impotence.*Indication　Insufficiency of Kidney-Qi, seminal emission, soreness and weakness of loins and legs, infertility.

*Source　It is a modified recipe from "Shoushi Baoyuan" (Preserving Essence to Extending Life-span) by Gong Tingxian of Ming Dynasty in beginning of 17th century, the imperial hospital listed as specific drug for royal palace. Carried in Pharmacopoeia of P.R.China (1995 Edition)*Chief Ingredients　Black-bone chicken, Antler glue, Turtle shell, Oyster shell, Mantis egg-case, Ginseng root, Milkvetch root, Chinese angelica root, White peony root, Nutgrass flatsedge rhizome, Lucid asparagus root, Licorice root, Rehmannia root, Prepared rehmannia root, Chuanxiong rhizome, Stellaria root, Red sage root, Chinese yam, Gordon euryale seed, Deglued antler powder.*Explanation　The black-bone chicken can replenish Liver and Kidney, Qi and blood, serve as principal drug; Antler glue, Mantis warm Kidney Yang while Turtle and Oyster shell, Asparagus, Stellaria nourish Yin to clear asthenia heat, Ginseng, Milkvetch, Yam, Licorice, Euryale tonify Spleen Qi, and Chinese angelica, Chuanxiong, Peony, Rehmannia, Red sage replenish blood and regulate menstruation.*Function　Replenishing Qi and nourishing blood, regulating menstruation and arresting vaginal discharge*Indication　Deficiency of both Qi and blood, pathological wasting and asthenia, aching and weak loins and knees, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia metrostaxis, leukorrhagia

　Peptic ulcer is a common and frequently encountered disease. H2 receptor blocker and several other drugs have been used in treating peptic ulcer (PU) since many years ago, but there still remain a rather large number of intractable ulcer and recurrent ulcer. Recently the discovery of Helicobacter pylori (HP), as well as the relationship between HP and PU relapse was confirmed, but there still lacks of perfect therapeutic program for anti-HP infection(1). From June 1993 to August 1996, we used a pure TCM preparation Moluo Yangping granule (摩罗疡平冲剂, MYG) in treating 64 PU patients, and satisfactory results have been obtained. The report is as follows.METHODSPatient Selection　　According to the diagnostic standard of PU worked out by Ministry of Health in “Guiding Principles for Clinical Study of New Chinese Drugs”, 126 PU patients with typical symptoms and signs were enrolled, who were confirmed to have PU before treatment with biopsy sample performed urease quick diagnostic method under gastroscopy, and pathological special stain were microscopically examined to verify the HP infection. Basal acid output (BAO), maximal acid output (MAO), peak acid output (PAO) and the amount of parietal cells were measured in all the patients.

　　Psoriasis is a kind of chronic relaptic skin disease, and at present there are no appropriate therapeutical methods. From March 1998 to May 1999, we used the traditional Chinese and western medicine (TCM-WM) approach in treating this disease, and satisfactory result was obtained. We clinically observed this method in treating psoriasis, with hemorrheological examinations performed, and it is reported as follows.METHODSDiagnostic Standard　　According to the diagnosis standard in “Modern Dermatology” (chiefly edited by YANG Guo-liang, WANG Xia-sheng. Shanghai: Shanghai Medical University Press, 1996∶513-514), the patients were confirmed to suffer from psoriasis vulgaris; and according to TCM syndrome differentiation as blood stasis type.

　　From February 1995 to March 1999, compared by 108 patients treated by western medicine, 120 patients suffering from chronic eczema on their hands have been treated by the authors with modified Weiling Decoction (WLD) and the therapeutical effects observed. The results are reported as follows.METHODSClinical Data　　All the patients who suffered from eczema on hands were outpatients and were tested by local squamous fungus culture before treatment, with the results negative, and conformed to the diagnostic standards of eczema in “Clinical Dermatology”(2nd edition, Nanjing, Jiangsu Science and Technology Press. 1999∶512-515). The patients were divided into the treated group and the control group. There were 120 patients in the treated group, 56 males and 64 females, their age ranging from 24 to 64 years, mean age 44 years; the illness course were 1-12 years, mean course 6.5 years, 35 of the patients were accompanied with eczema on other parts of the body or nail change. At the same time there were 108 patients in the control group, 46 males and 62 females; their age ranging from 18 to 56 years, mean age 37 years; the illness course ranging from 3 to 10 years , mean course 6.5 years, 38 of the cases were accompanied with eczema on other parts of the body or with nail change. Statistical analysis indicated that the two groups were comparable.

　　Thirty-five patients of infantile purpura nephritis (IPN) were treated with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine (TCM-WM) from January 1994 to December 1998, with good efficacy obtained, and following is the report.METHODSClinical Data　　All the 65 cases were inpatients, and conformed to the “Standards of the Diagnosis and Therapeutical Effect of Hematological Diseases” (edited by ZHANG Zhi-nan. Tianjin: Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 1999∶235-239). They were randomly divided into two groups: Treated group: 35 cases, 23 males, 12 females; aged 4-13 years, 7 years on average; disease course 4-18 days, the mean 10 days; mild type 19 cases (asymptomatic hematuria, proteinuria), nephritis syndrome type 13 cases (hematuria, proteinuria, edema, hypertension), and nephrotic syndrome type 3 cases (typical manifestation of nephrosis complicated with renal insufficiency). Control group: 30 cases, 20 males, 10 females; aged 3-14 years, 6 years on average; disease course 3-16 days, the mean 9 days; mild type 16 cases, nephritis syndrome type 10 cases, nephrotic syndrome type 4 cases. The clinical manifestation, sex, age, hospitalisation time of these 2 groups showed insignificant difference.Method of Treatment　　The control group: Adopting intravenous dripping of dexamethasone 0.3-0.5 mg*kg-1*d-1, consecutively for 5-7 days, which was then shifted to prednisone 1-1.5 mg*kg-1*d-1, altogether 2-3 weeks, with Vit C, persantin, chlorphenamine, calcium, etc., orally taken.　　The treated (TCM-WM) group, on the basis of the above-mentioned WM treatment, had also TCM syndrome differentiation performed, and were classified into 3 types:

　　Treat disease before it arises (治未病) ［zhi wei bing］: A preventive perspective in clinical medicine, mainly including two pointspreventive treatment of disease, and early treatment for prevention of complications. Therefore, it is said that a good doctor treats disease before it arises.　　Treat according to time, place and person. (因时, 因地, 因人制宜) (因时, 因地, 因人制宜) ［yin shi, yin di, yin ren zhi yi］: One of the therapeutic principles referring to the application of different treatment in accordance with climatic and seasonal conditions, geographical localities, and the patient's constitution.　　Supporting the normal and dispelling the evil (扶正祛邪) ［fu zheng qu xie］: two general principles of treatment which can be applied separately or in combination according to the patient's condition. They are closely correlated, as supporting the normal, i.e., strengthening the body resistance, facilitates the elimination of pathogenic factors, and dispelling the evil, i.e., eliminating the pathogens, promotes the restoration of normal Qi.　　Routine treatment (正治) ［zheng zhi］: use of medicines opposite in nature to the disease, e.g., to treat heat syndrome with medicines cold or cool in nature, also known as counteracting treatment (逆治) ［ni zhi］. This is applied in most cases, such as to treat excess with purgation or reduction (实则泻之) (实则泻之) ［shi ze xie zhi］, to treat deficiency with tonification or reinforcement (虚则补之) (虚则补之) ［xu ze bu zhi］, to treat cold with the hot (寒者热之) (寒者热之) ［han zhe re zhi］, and to treat heat with the cold (热者寒之) (热者寒之) ［re zhe han zhi］.

　　JIN Yi-qiang was born in September 1932 in Changsha, Hunan Province. He was educated in Hunan Medical University and graduated in 1956. He studied in the first TCM Training Class for Western Physicians in Hunan TCM College and graduated in 1961. He worked in the TCM department and the Institute of Integrated TCM & Western Medicine (WM) in the Affiliated Xiangya Hospital, Hunan Medical University ever since, where he has been engaged in the internal medicine of Integrated TCM and WM for 43 years (including teaching, clinical practice and research work). He became a professor at 1987, and works as tutor for inheriting the experience of veteran TCM experts in China, tutor of postgraduates, director of research department, and deputy director of the institute. Meanwhile, he is the standing director of the Chinese Association of Integrated TCM & WM, the vice director of the Chinese Association of Trace Elemental Science, a member of New Drug Assessment Committee in Hunan Province and the editor of the Journal of Integrated TCM & WM.

　　OU Ming, male, was born in Shunde City of Guangdong Province, December 1924. After graduating from Medical College of Lingnan University in 1948, he was served as a physician in Chinese People's Liberation Army, government organization and Zhongshan Medical College. In 1956, he was appointed the post of participating in the founding of a new medical college, Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and has worked there ever since, acting in the past as department head of internal medicine, deputy director of the affiliated hospital, director of teaching administration office and vice-president of the college successively and now as a full professor. Cardiovascular disease is his speciality and he has devoted to the scientific study of integration of traditional and western medicine in his field since then. He has taken charge of various national research projects, including “Clinical and Experimental Studies of the Effect of Ilexonin A on Congestive Heart Failure”, “The Molecular Biological Basis of Deficiency Syndrome in Traditional Chinese Medicine”, “Clinical and Experimental Studies of the Effect of Kaixin Capsule on Asymptomatic Myocardial Ischemia”, etc., and acted as the head of national collaborating group studying the treatment of cardiovascular diseases by traditional Chinese medicine and the integration of traditional and western medicine, a national key project of medicine in the 7th Five-Year Plan. Many achievements in scientific research have been obtained, which were appraised by experts as the achievements of advanced level in the country. A total of thirteen prizes (science and technology progress prize and commendation prize) has been awarded to him by Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Health, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Guangdong Commission of Science and Technology.　　His writings are abundant. More than ten monographs concerning traditional Chinese medicine have been published for most of which he acted as the chief-editor, including Concised Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine (The People's Health Publishing House, 1979), Chinese-English Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hong Kong Three-Joint Book Company, 1982), New Compilation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, 1991), Series of Traditional Chinese Medicine (in English)(Hong Kong Haifeng Publishing House, 1991-1994), Syndrome Differentiation, Treatment and Recent Research of Coronary Heart Disease (Qingdao People's Publishing House, 1994), Big Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine (The People's Health Publishing House, 1995), etc. Furthermore, more than 20 academic papers have been published in the well-known Chinese medical journals, such as Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Journal of Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Drug Research and Clinical Pharmacology, Journal of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, etc.

　　A great deal of research work about acupuncture in terms of modern medicine has been done in China. The initial investigation about the mechanism of the clinical effect of acupuncture in the fifties, the extensive clinical practice with acupuncture in the mid-sixties, and the large scale of experimental studies on animal models about acupuncture in the seventies, especially the nineties, which have all provided many new progresses. And the following is an overview of the achievements of these research work.

　　It has been considered by modern medicine that bronchial asthma is a chronic airway allergic inflammation (AAI) which is the major factor that induces reversible airway ventilating disturbance and bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR) in asthmatic patients, as well as a correlation between the delayed-phase onset of asthma and AAI is more significant than immediate-phase onset of asthma in its pathogenesis. Anti-inflammatory therapy as a fundamental principle of treatment for bronchial asthma has been brought forward during the interval phase so that a large number of anti-AAI drugs to significantly enhance the curative effect such as inhalant corticoid, disodium cromoglycate, and leukotriene receptors antagonist, etc., has been rapidly developed. Additionally, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and integration of TCM and western medicine (WM) therapies, including acupuncture, are gradually taken into account by the medical circle as a characteristic in our country for treatment of bronchial asthma. It is worthy of being pointed out that the curative effect of acupuncture and moxibustion in treating asthma is evident, and that its therapeutic mechanism has to a certain extent, been found along with the recent deep-going acupunctural research.

　　Psoriasis is a kind of refractory disease, though it is less serious than cancer. The etiology is not clear, the morbidity is high, and it cannot be radically cured. It is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. Since 1980, the authors have studied the pathogenic mechanisms of psoriasis from aspects of pathology, biochemistry, pharmacology, and immunology. It was proved that abnormalities in biochemical components, neural media, immunological state and cell metabolism existed in psoriatic cases. We have published more than ten articles, and formulated two anti-psoriasis drugs, which is reported as follows:　　1. The levels of serum zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, iron, selenium, ceruloplasmin, vitamin A and vitamin E in 138 psoriatic patients were measured by atomic absorption spectrometry. The results showed that serum copper level in the progressive and stable stage was decreased significantly (P<0.01). The levels of serum calcium and vitamin E lowered too. The levels of serum ceruloplasmin,　selenium and iron were considerably higher in psoriatic than those in the normal control. This is an evidence that there are biochemical abnormalities in the internal environment of psoriatic patients.