Frequency and pattern of Chinese herbal medicine prescriptions for chronic hepatitis in Taiwan

Inhibitory effects of Scutellaria baicalensis extract on hepatic stellate cells through inducing G2/M cell cycle arrest and activating ERK-dependent apoptosis via Bax and caspase pathway

“…Use of herbal remedies in the treatment of liver fibrosis has recently attracted increasing attention (Blendis et al, 1999;Tsukada et al, 2006). A number of Chinese herbal medicines containing Scutellaria baicalensis such as Long Dan Xie Gan Tang and Xiao Chai Hu Tang (sho-saiko-to) have been widely used for liver protection or therapy of hepatic diseases (Shimizu et al, 1999;Chen et al, 2008). The average consume for one year is more than 130 kg and the daily safe dose for human is 15 g/50 kg (300 mg/kg).…”

Prescription patterns of Chinese herbal products for menopausal syndrome: Analysis of a nationwide prescription database

“…Originally developed to identify what kinds of items might be purchased together in a supermarket, the association rule mining module had been successfully applied to determine the co-prescription patterns of CHP for certain diseases in previous reports (Feng et al, 2006;Kung et al, 2006;Chen et al, 2008a;Hsieh et al, 2008). Details of the computing algorithm were described in a previous study (Chen et al, 2003b(Chen et al, , 2008aKung et al, 2006;Jong et al, 2010).…”

“…This publicly available research database provides comprehensive data gathered under unrestricted access and is particularly valid for investigating TCM. A number of TCM studies have been published using this nationwide prescription database Chen et al, 2006Chen et al, , 2008aHsieh et al, 2008;Yang et al, 2009;Jong et al, 2010;Lin et al, 2010b).…”

Prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine, and integrated Chinese–Western medicine for allergic rhinitis under the National Health Insurance in Taiwan

“…Taiwan′s NHI initiated by central government in 1995 is compulsory for the whole population to have an equal chance to join and to meet the demand of health. As a preceding research on the habit of medicine consumption of outpatients of medical centers in Taiwan showed, 72.7% patients accepted both traditional Chinese medicine treatments and western medicine treatments (Chen et al, 2008a(Chen et al, , 2008b. However, the study conducted research by questionnaire survey and did not evaluate the influence factors and difference of medications prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine treatments and western medicine treatments.…”