Preventive treatment of traditional Chinese medicine as antistress and antiaging strategy.
Premedical intervention before diseases is one of the principal practices in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for tackling health problems and diseases. This paper explains the preventive treatment principle in TCM regarding the subhealth condition following stress-induced pathophysiological situations, mainly oxidative and glycation stresses, in the framework of metabonomics and cell biology. Scientific interpretations for various preventive treatments in TCM present the idea that disease prevention should surpass medical intervention in humans. Antistress biology is proposed for the first time as a preclinical practice or strategy for antiaging.
Liang
Zhao-hui
ZH
Guangdong Provincial Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences of Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of TCM, Guangzhou, China.
Yin
Da-zhong
DZ
D000375:Aging / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000150:complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*
D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal