Study on the cold and hot properties of medicinal herbs by thermotropism in mice behavior
It is a common sense that chewing a mint leaf causes a cold feeling,while masticating a piece of ginger root is associated with a hot sensation.The Traditional Chinese Medicine has termed this phenomenon as cold and hot properties of herbs and applied them in treating certain human diseases successfully for thousands of years.Here,we have developed an Animal Thermotropism Behavior Surveillance System,and by using this device and other approaches,we not only verified the existence of,but also characterized and quantitated the cold and hot properties of medicinal herbs in animal behavioral experiments.The results suggested that the hot and cold properties of herbal drugs indeed correlated with the alteration of animal behavior in search for residence temperature.
medicinal herbs cold and hot property thermotropism mice
ZHENG quan-fu ZHAO yan-ling LIU tian-tian LIU shu-xian SUN xiao-jiao WANG jia-bo XIAO xiao-he ZHAO hai-ping JIA lei
302 Hospital of People”s Liberation Army,Beijing,100039,China;Pharmacy College,Chengdu University of Pharmacy College,Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Chengdu,611137,China School of Chinese Medicine,The University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong,999077,China
国内会议
成都
英文
429-438
2013-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）