title: History and experience: a survey of traditional chinese medicine treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is practiced in the Chinese health care system for more than 2,000 years. In recent years, herbal medicines, which are used to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) in China based on TCM or modern pharmacological theories have attracted considerable attention. In this paper, we discuss etiology and pathogenesis of AD, TCM therapy, and herbal extracts for the treatment of AD. There is evidence to suggest that TCM therapy may offer certain complementary cognitive benefits for the treatment of AD. Chinese herb may have advantages with multiple target regulation compared with the single-target antagonist in view of TCM.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resource and Compound Prescription of the Ministry of Education, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Senile Dementia (Xing Nao Yi Zhi), State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, China.
authors.forename: Mingwang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Senile Dementia (Xing Nao Yi Zhi), State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, China.
authors.forename: Shihe
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resource and Compound Prescription of the Ministry of Education, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, China.
authors.forename: Junfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Senile Dementia (Xing Nao Yi Zhi), State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People's Republic of China, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430065, China.
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wang