title: [Counteracting effect of Chinese herbs on "insufficiency of spleen qi" induced by simulated weightlessness].
abstract: Objective. To observe the counteracting effect of a Chinese herb-compound on "insufficiency of spleen qi" induced by simulated weightlessness. Methods. Animal and human experiment were carried out to the Chinese herb-compound (Dangshen, Baizhu, Fuling etc). Result. This compound protected the tail suspended rats from atrophy of spleen, thymus, soleus and gastrocnemius muscles, prevented excessive decrease of body weight effectively; at the same time it relieved the symptoms of the subjects greatly. Conclusion. It demonstrated that the compound decreased the "insufficiency of spleen qi" of both animals and human subjects.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Space Medico-Engineering, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: H Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: B Z
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Q C
authors.initials: QC
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019417:Hindlimb Suspension; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D019413:Qi; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013154:Spleen / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D018544:Weightlessness Countermeasures; D018474:Weightlessness Simulation
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal