The development of study on traditional Chinese medicine has seen considerable progress in the prevention and cure of fibrosis by Chinese herbs. Further elucidation on the pathogenesis of fibrosis will be helpful for the study on anti-fibrosis traditional Chinese medicine and medicine selection. Traditional Chinese medicine has the advantage of achieving multiple targets with one dose. And the multiplicity can be enhanced by finding among natural materials activated monomer that has specific pharmacological effect, by elucidating the mechanism of different monomers and effective target positions, and by treating fibrosis according to its multi-facetedness. This paper is a review of major literature produced in the past ten years concerning the anti-fibrosis mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine.

Five cases of resection of pharyngeal and parapharyngeal space (pps) tumors show that mandible swing approach is an optimal option for thoroughly removing retromandibular tumors of the parotid. The excisions do not injure the seventh nerve or cause any complications. In all the five cases, tumors are located at parapharyngeal space, while in one of the five cases, the tumor protrudes to the palate.