Traditional Chinese medicine can improve tumor treatment

New research shows that a 1800 year old Chinese herbal formula can improve the effect of cancer treatment and reduce the side effects caused by treatment The prescription used in the experiment consists of four kinds of drugs: Paeonia, Scutellaria, liquorice and jujube Huangqin decoction, composed of plant extracts, roots and fruits, has been used for hundreds of years to treat stomach discomfort and nausea But now researchers have found that it has a different effect on chemotherapy patients, and it can also improve the efficiency of chemotherapy The powerful drugs used in chemotherapy can cause many side effects, because they kill tumor cells and healthy cells at the same time This is especially prominent in the chemotherapy of digestive tract and intestine A team from Yale University found that rats fed Scutellaria soup could protect their intestinal mucosa and restore it more quickly Huangqin decoction can also eliminate inflammation, improve chemotherapy effect and further kill tumor The prescription used in the experiment is composed of four herbs: Paeonia, Scutellaria, liquorice and jujube The researchers treated mice with colon and rectum tumors with chemotherapy, which reduced the size of the tumor, but caused significant damage to the intestinal tissue of the animals A few days after treatment with PHY906, the drug restored damaged intestinal tissue in mice The patient lost weight and saw more tumor cells killed "Chemotherapy has brought great pain to thousands of patients, but PHY906 has a variety of physiologically active compounds that can act on many sources of discomfort," said Professor Chen Yongji, the main author of the study, which was published in Science Translational Medicine "The combination of t-chemotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine represents a marriage between China and the West in the treatment of cancer." we will further refine these processes to better learn and understand the complex mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine Reviewing history can lead us to discover the future of medicine "