Acupuncture Combined with Three-Step Analgesic Drug Therapy for Treatment of Cancer Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Clinical Trials.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture combined with the WHO three-step analgesic drug ladder for cancer pain.

Methods: The Cochrane Library, PubMed, and CNKI Database of Systematic Reviews were searched. Using the Cochrane Register for Randomized Controlled Trials, the quality of the included literature was evaluated, and the meta-analysis was carried out with RevMan 5.

A Network Pharmacology-Based Identification Study on the Mechanism of Xiao-Xu-Ming Decoction for Cerebral Ischemic Stroke.

Objective: We used the network pharmacological analysis method to explore the mechanism of multicomponent, multitarget, and multiway actions of Xiao-Xu-Ming decoction (XXMD) for cerebral ischemic stroke (CIS), which provided a basis on the research of innovative drugs.

Method: We used the Traditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform (TCMSP) to retrieve the active ingredients and targets of 12 herbs of XXMD; we used the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to screen for differentially expressed genes in CIS to obtain the disease targets of CIS and to intersect it with the action targets of XXMD, and then the target drug efficacy is obtained. We used Cytoscape 3.

[Scalp-acupuncture plus body-acupuncture for treatment of spastic cerebral palsy and its effects on bone density and trace elements in the diseased children].

Objective: To observe therapeutic effect of scalp-acupuncture plus body-acupuncture on spastic cerebral palsy and its effects on bone density and blood trace elements Ca, Cu, Zn, and Fe in the children with spastic cerebral palsy.

Methods: Eighty children of spastic cerebral palsy were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group, 40 cases in each group. The observation group were treated with scalp-acupuncture plus body-acupuncture combined with body therapy and performance therapy, and the control group with simple body therapy and performance therapy, once each day, for 3 courses, 30 days constituting one course.

[Protective effects of Chailing Guiqi Decoction combined with lumbrukinase on renal function in rats with adriamycin nephropathy].

Objective: To study the protective efffects of Chailing Guiqi Decoction (CLGQD) combined with lumbrukinase on renal function in rats with adriamycin nephropathy.

Methods: Thirty-six SD rats were randomly divided into four groups: normal control group, untreated group, simvastatin-treated group and CLGQD -treated group. Adriamycin nephropathy was induced by intravenous injection with 5 mg/kg adriamycin.