title: Evaluation of the anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of Liu-Shen-Wan and its individual fractions.
abstract: Liu-Shen-Wan (LSW), a famous traditional Chinese medicine for treatment of upper respiratory tract inflammation, was evaluated for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities. Acetic acid-elevated vascular permeability, carboxymethylcellulose sodium (CMC-Na)-induced leukocyte migration and ear edema induced by picryl chloride were used to test anti-inflammatory activity. Moreover, acetic acid-induced writhing and hot-plate tests were used to determine analgesic effect. It was observed that LSW exerted significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities in these models at doses of 30 and 90mg/kg crude drug in vivo. In addition, LSW potently inhibited proliferation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) stimulated by streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin at doses of 0.5-5microg/ml in vitro. LSW was then partitioned with chloroform, methanol, water and mineral fraction. Several fractions inhibited inflammation and pain in varying degrees. Among them, chloroform fraction was the most active in hot-plate and writhing tests, and exerted the remarkable inhibitory effect on human PBMC proliferation. Methanol and water fractions had more suppressive activities in vascular permeability, leukocyte migration and PC-DTH tests. These results suggest that LSW has significantly anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities. The chloroform fraction is a key fraction of LSW to the overall anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects, while methanol and water fractions also partly contribute to anti-inflammatory activities of LSW.
authors: Department of Complex Prescription of TCM, China Pharmaceutical University, 1 Shennong Road, Nanjing 210038, PR China.
authors: Hong-Yue
authors: HY
authors: Ma
authors: Jun-Ping
authors: JP
authors: Kou
authors: Jing-Rong
authors: JR
authors: Wang
authors: Bo-Yang
authors: BY
authors: Yu
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002199:Capillary Permeability / Q000187:drug effects; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D002634:Chemotaxis, Leukocyte / Q000187:drug effects; D045424:Complex Mixtures / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006968:Hypersensitivity, Delayed / Q000517:prevention & control; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D045424:Complex Mixtures; C513610:Liu-Shen-Wan