Maintain quality of life through Modern Chinese Herbal Medicine

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Maintain quality of lifethrough Modern Chinese
Herbal Medicine

• Speaker Dr.Joseph H.C.Lui
• Ph D. Pharmacognosy
• University of Minnesota, USA
• Registered Chinese Medicine
• Practitioner, Hong Kong.

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Content

• Unlock the mystery of Chinese
• herbal medicine
• Why Chinese herbal medicine has
• to be modernized?
• Maintain quality of life

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Unlock the Mystery of Chinese Herbal Medicine
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General Concept

• Chinese Medicine
• Minimum side effects
• Cure (treating the
• underlying illness)
• Natural
• Compound Formulation

• Western Drug
• Harmful side effects
• Control (alleviating
• the symptoms)
• Chemical Compound
• Single Component
• Formulation

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Types of Chinese Medicine

• 5776 items (Pharmacopoeia of Chinese
• Herbal Medicine)
• Animal, Plant, Microorganism, Mineral
• All natural
• Processed and Refined into Chinese
• Medicine
• Modern Chinese herbal medicine

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Types of Western Drug

• 1300 items (PDR)
• Animal, Plant, Microorganism, Mineral,
• Synthetic, Biotechnology
• gt 50 natural
• Extraction and purification

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Chinese vs Western Drug

• Compound Formulation
• Single component Formulation

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Make Up of Compound Formulation

• Know-how
• Art instead of Science
• Experience and Clinical Studies
• 337 known formulae

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• Principal herb Main ingredient for the
  cure
• Assistant herb Strengthens the effect of
  the
• principal herb
• Adjuvant herb Reduces or eliminates the
• toxicity and
  other side effects
• of the
  principal and the
• assistant
  herbs
• Guiding herb Directs, Coordinates and/or
  
• mediates the
  effects of the
• principal and
  assistant herbs
• to the
  affected site

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Bazhen Tang (Reinforcing the vital energy
nourishing the blood)

• Radix Codonopsis
• Pilosulae 10g
• Rhizoma Atractylodis
• Macrocephalae 10g
• Poria 10g
• Radix Glycyrrhizae 5g

• Rhizoma Ligustici
• Chuanxiong 10g
• Radix Angelicae Sinensis 10g
• Radix Paeoniae Alba 10g
• Rhizoma Rehmanniae
• Preparatae 10g

A typical compound formula embodied Principle,
Assistant, Adjuvant Guiding herbs
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Compound Formulation of Western Drug Aids
Treatment

• Dr. David Ho is one of the well-
• known scientists in Aids research
• Develop Cocktail Treatment

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What is Cocktail Treatment

• Mixing three to four kinds of
• antiviral drugs
• Compound formulation
• RITONAVIR AZT 3TC
• INDINAVIR AZT 3TC

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Why Cocktail Treatment is better ?

• Virus being attacked in various
• mode of actions
• Wide spectrum
• Control but not cure

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Adjuvant Drug

• Reduce side effects
• Bufferin
• Aspirin moderate pain and
• reduce fever
• Sodium Bicarbonate neutralize
• stomach acid

Synergistic
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Guiding Drug

• Monoclonal Antibody
• Targeting Drug
• Magic Bullet

Touch-and-go
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The Advantages of Compound Formulation

• Multi specificity vs high specificity
• Wide spectrum
• Synergistic
• Multi channels
• Same functions but with different mode of actions

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Why Chinese Herbal Medicine has to be modernized ?
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Principles of Modern Chinese Herbal Medicine

• Safety
• Efficacy
• Stability Consistency

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Raw Materials Safety

• Heavy metals
• Microbes contamination
• Herbacide Insecticide Residues

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Products Safety

• Acute Toxicity Study
• Subacute Toxicity Study
• Chronic Toxicity Study
• Reproductive Toxicology
• Drug Dependence
• Antigenicity Study
• Mutagenicity Study
• Carcinogenicity Study
• Local Irritation Study

Good Laboratory Practices
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Efficacy

• In-vitro Study
• In-vivo Study
• Animal study
• Clinical study
• Clinical Trial
• Unbiased
• Independent
• Properly designed

Good Clinical Practices
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Stability Consistency

• Whole Plants Authentication
• Tissue Analysis
• Chemical Composition Analysis
• DNA Analysis
• Manufacturing of Chinese Medicines
• Quality Control
• Quality Assurance

Good Manufacturing Practices
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• To prove the safety of herbal
• medicines
• To provide strong scientific proof of
• the effectiveness of the herbal
• medicines through a well designed
• clinical trial
• To strengthen batch to batch
• consistency which means quality
• assurance of the herbal medicines

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The genuine Modern Chinese Herbal Medicine
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Maintain quality of life
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Five Principle Elements for longevity

• Blood pressure lower than 120/80
• Total blood cholesterol lower than
• 200mg/dl
• Normal blood sugar level
• Free from smoking
• Never have stroke

According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association 1999 282 2012 2018

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People who meet the five principle elements for
longevity

• Average life-span will longer than
• normal person at least 91/2years
• Youngster lt 9
• Middle-Age groups lt 5

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Major reasons for aging

• Inborn factor (40)
• Heredity
• Acquired factor (60)
• Diseased factor (cardiac, liver, spleen,
• lung, kidney and cancer diseases)
• Social factor (Science culture, Substances
  life
• style)
• Environmental factor (Environmental pollution,
  viral
• or bacterial infection)
• Other factor (Exercise, Eating habits, Mood,
  Health
• supplements)

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Proper Lifestyle for Quality of Life

• Proper exercise
• Drink minimum 8 glasses of water
• everyday
• Balanced diet
• Eat lightly
• Think positive
• Proper health supplements

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Good Health Happy Life
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Thank you!