Interviewed experts:

Hu Jingqing, Director, Institute of Basic Theory, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CATCM)

Hao Wanshan, Professor, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (BUTM)

Yang Guohua, Director, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CATCM)

Zhu Shijie, Chief, Department of Oncology, Wangjing Hospital, CATCM

Luo Daren, famous Chinese Medicine Scholar

Mai Men Dong Tang for Dry Throat and Tongue

"Mai Men Dong Tang" is often used in Japanese Chinese medicine to improve mouth and throat disorders. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun has reported that Japan Cancer Research Ariake Hospital to patients suffering from pharyngeal cancer caused by salivary secretion difficulties in the prescription is "Maimendong Tang"; Osaka Dental University in 2009 on the Japanese nationwide survey of 111 dental and oral surgery found that these medical institutions are also the use of Maimendong Tang, plus flavor of the loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose loose, half Xia Houpu Tang, etc. to treat taste disorders and temporomandibular joint disorders.

China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Wangjing Hospital, cardiovascular internal medicine chief physician Yang Guohua introduced, "MaiMenDongSoup" is from ZhangZhongJing "JinGuiYaoLiu" of the famous formula, the so-called "seven liters of wheat, a liter of summer, three two ginseng, two two grass, rice, 12 jujube," by the maiMenDong The formula consists of 60 grams of Maimendong, 9 grams of Semenxia, 6 grams of Ginseng, 4 grams of licorice, 6 grams of round-grained rice, and 12 jujubes. This formula tonifies yin and moistens the lungs, and is very effective in treating dry mouth and tongue, dry and swollen pharynx, five heartburn, dry cough with little phlegm, dry vomiting caused by deficiency of yin and fluid, and it is a very common formula for us.

In addition to Maimendong Tang, Japan's 2012 revision of dental treatment remuneration*** included 11 Chinese herbal medicines, including Lixing San, which relieves the symptoms of post-extraction toothache; Hanxia Laxing Xin Tang, which is used to treat mouth ulcers; Wuling San, which is used to treat dryness of the mouth; and Baihu Plus Ginseng Tang. Lixing San is from the Orchid Room Secret Collection, and Hanxia Diarrhea Heart Soup, Wu Ling San and Bai Hu Plus Ginseng Soup are all from the Treatise on Typhoid Fever.

Niu Che Ren Qi Wan

Niu Che Ren Qi Wan is commonly used in Japanese herbal medicine to improve the decline in physical ability of the elderly. in March 2017, Japan's "Society for the Prospective Study of Traditional Chinese Medicines for the Health and Medical Treatment of the Nation" proposed the use of Chinese herbal medicine to prevent the decline in motor ability and vitality caused by age. In March 2017, Japan's Society for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine for National Health and Medical Care proposed the use of Chinese herbal medicine to prevent the "frailty" and "sarcopenia" that results in a decline in athleticism and vigor due to aging.

Professor Hao Wanshan of the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a renowned Chinese medicine practitioner, introduced the kidney qi pill from Zhang Zhongjing's "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber", is a very famous kidney tonic formula, the use of this formula is often often added or subtracted from a number of medicines, the most commonly used is the Southern Song Dynasty's "Jisheng" formula, the addition of psyllium, hyssop, renal qi pills, known as the Jisheng renal qi pills, called the Japanese Chinese formula, "oxcart kidney qi pills", "oxcart kidney qi pills". "Niu Che Kidney Qi Pill", in fact, it is a very commonly used formula in China and is sold as a medicine in pharmacies. It is usually used to treat the elderly kidney qi deficiency caused by waist and knee weakness, limb weakness, cold legs and feet, urination and other conditions, sometimes the elderly mild edema is also commonly used.

The effect of Niu Che Kidney Qi Pills has also been clinically proven in Japan. Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine Professor Keisuke Hagiwara in the experiment confirmed that ox-car kidney qi pills can significantly improve the physical strength and muscle mass of the elderly; Kobe University, Japan, Department of Urology, Goto Zhang Chang published in Japan, "Medical Tribune" study pointed out that ox-car kidney qi pills to improve urinary frequency by reducing the feeling of bladder filling and improve urinary frequency.

Chronic Constipation Ma Zi Ren Wan

For chronic constipation, which afflicts many middle-aged and elderly people, Ma Zi Ren Wan is commonly used in Japanese herbal medicine.

Prof. Hao Wanshan introduced, hemp Ziren Pill from the "theory of typhoid fever", mainly composed of hemp Ziren, peony, Citrus aurantium, rhubarb, thick Park, almonds, moistening the intestine and diarrhea, Qi and laxative, mainly used to treat the insufficiency of fluids, intestinal peristalsis of the constipation of the slow. Nowadays, the commercially available proprietary medicines Ma Ren Run Bowel Pill and Ma Ren Zi Spleen Pill are borrowed from Ma Zi Ren Pill, which are available in pharmacies.

Hong Kong Baptist University School of Chinese Medicine and the Chinese University of Hong Kong digestive disease researchers published in the United States in 2010 in the authoritative gastroenterology journal "American Journal of Gastroenterology" study confirms that "hemp Ziren Pills" effective treatment of functional The study confirmed that "Ma Zi Ren Pills" is effective in treating functional constipation, with 81% of patients experiencing a significant increase in the number of bowel movements one month after taking the medicine, and relief of discomfort symptoms such as straining to defecate and abdominal distension.

The famous Chinese medicine scholar Luo Dalun said, in addition to constipation, similar to the symptoms of yin deficiency, such as temper, pulse faster, hands and feet heart fever, night sweating, etc., with hemp Ziren Pills is also very appropriate. But yang deficiency qi deficiency constipation is not very suitable for people with diabetes, high blood pressure, pregnant women, children to follow the doctor's advice.

Alzheimer's Liver Suppressor

A Chinese medicine called Liver Suppressor is used in Japanese herbal medicine to treat and improve the symptoms of dementia. Experiments conducted by researchers at Osaka University and the University of Tsukuba, Japan, have shown that Liver Suppressor has an inhibitory effect on the death of nerve cells in the brain, which is the cause of Alzheimer's disease.

According to the literature, Liver Suppressor is a formula recorded in China's Ming Dynasty "Baoying Summary", which was introduced to Japan in the second half of the 17th century, and has been widely used in Japan since the 2000s. It consists of seven Chinese herbs: Crochet, Chaihu, Poria, Atractylodes Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Angelica sinensis, and Glycyrrhiza glabra, which are used to invigorate the spleen and nourish the blood and to pacify the liver and relieve spasms.

Hu Jingqing, Institute of Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that these ingredients are very commonly used, but rarely called "inhibit the liver," the name of the formula.

Yang Guohua, chief physician of cardiovascular medicine at Wangjing Hospital of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is very experienced in the treatment of panic disorder, and she said that these herbal medicines are used to treat some of the problems of insufficient liver yin and kidney yin, because the liver is the master of emotions, and this formula can ease the liver and regulate the qi, which will help to alleviate the mental and emotional disorders. play a relieving role. "These seven herbs in the 'Liver Suppressor' formula are also the ingredients of the formula that I commonly use to treat anxiety, depression, and memory loss, and I usually add a few more herbal concoctions on top of that." Prof. Hao Wanshan said.

The treatment of dementia with Liver Suppressor San has been the subject of many studies in modern medicine, such as a study by Xie Shuanglu et al. of the China Pharmaceutical University, published in Pharmacy Today in 2013 as part of a National Natural Science Foundation project, which noted that Liver Suppressor San safely and effectively improves behaviors such as agitation, anxiety, and irritability in patients with dementia.

Daijianzhong Tang for Cold and Abdominal Pain

Daijianzhong Tang is widely used in Japan as a rehabilitation formula for cancer patients. Masaki Kitajima, vice president of the International University of Medical Welfare in Japan, found that patients who had undergone surgery for colorectal cancer would have a shorter hospital stay if they took Dajianzhong Soup.The Cancer Countermeasures Acceleration Plan published by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan in 2015 made it clear that research on Chinese herbal remedies should be continuously promoted in order to alleviate the side-effects and after-effects of anticancer drugs.

Prof. Hao Wanshan said that Dajianzhong Tang is from "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber" and consists of Shu Pepper, dried ginger, caramelized sugar, and ginseng. Sichuan pepper warm spleen and stomach, cold pain; dry ginger warming cold; caramel warming the middle deficiency, relieve pain; ginseng to replenish the spleen and benefit qi. The whole formula tonifies qi and warms yang, and is often used to treat severe pain in the epigastric region that is brought on by cold condensation and cold stagnation, and intestinal cramps.

Zhu Shijie, director of the Department of Oncology at Wangjing Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that in the process of treatment, tumor patients will have nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension and ascites, cough, diarrhea and other symptoms, we also commonly use the Dajianzhong Tang plus or minus to regulate cancer patients. The title picture is Health Times file photo, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital Liang Bao-yin photo

China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Institute of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hu Jingqing said: Japan's Chinese medicine is the root of Chinese medicine in our country, Japanese clinics commonly used in the Chinese medicine is precisely the classic formula we commonly used, sometimes only in the name and formula composition has been adjusted. Many Chinese tourists go to Japan to buy these "Chinese medicines" on behalf of others, but in fact, they are looking for farther away from home. But whether it's Chinese herbal medicine or Japanese herbal medicine, the simplicity, affordability and efficacy of Chinese medicine has been well proven.