title: Correlation between the different therapeutic properties of Chinese medicinal herbs and delayed luminescence.
abstract: In the practice and principle of Chinese medicine, herbal materials are classified according to their therapeutic properties. 'Cold' and 'heat' are the most important classes of Chinese medicinal herbs according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In this work, delayed luminescence (DL) was measured for different samples of Chinese medicinal herbs using a sensitive photon multiplier detection system. A comparison of DL parameters, including mean intensity and statistic entropy, was undertaken to discriminate between the 'cold' and 'heat' properties of Chinese medicinal herbs. The results suggest that there are significant differences in mean intensity and statistic entropy and using this method combined with statistical analysis may provide novel parameters for the characterization of Chinese medicinal herbs in relation to their energetic properties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, China.|Shandong Medicinal Biotechnology Center, Key Laboratory for Biotech-Drugs of the Ministry of Health, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Jingxiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.affiliation: Shandong Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Jialei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Meina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shandong University School of Medicine, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Xiaolei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine/Centre for Photonics of Living Systems, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Wijk
authors.affiliation: Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine/Centre for Photonics of Living Systems, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Shandong Medicinal Biotechnology Center, Key Laboratory for Biotech-Drugs of the Ministry of Health, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Shandong Medicinal Biotechnology Center, Key Laboratory for Biotech-Drugs of the Ministry of Health, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Jinxiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Han
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry*; D049449:Luminescence; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal
keywords: Chinese medicinal herbs; cold and heat; delayed luminescence; therapeutic properties