Chai-hu-gui-zhi-gan-jiang-tang regulates plasma interleukin-6 and soluble interleukin-6 receptor concentrations and improves depressed mood in climacteric women with insomnia

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 703-711

  Ushiroyama, Takahisa ^a   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Sakuma, Kou ^a   Ueki, Minoru ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bupleuri radix; Chai hu gui zhi gan jiang tang; Cinnamomi cortex; Climacteric; Emotional change; Interleukin 6; Scutellariae radix; Soluble interleukin 6 receptor

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BUPLEURUM ROOT; CHAI HU GUI ZHI GAN JIANG TANG; CHINESE DRUG; CINNAMON EXTRACT; GINGER EXTRACT; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; NATURAL PRODUCT; OYSTER SHELL EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SCUTELLARIAE RADIX; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRICHOSANTHES EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINNAMON; CLIMACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INVOLUTIONAL DEPRESSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MORBIDITY; OYSTER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS;

ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MEDICINE, KAMPO; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PHYTOTHERAPY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 24944445858     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X05003338     Document Type: Article

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