The Relationship between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Medicine

Table 5

Several advanced commonly used herbs.

Herb	Function	Traditional use	Major ingredient	Pharmacologic effect	Modern application
Artemisia apiacea Hce; [18, 19]	Antipyretic, antimalaria	Fever, malaria, icterus		Regulation of immune function, and anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antimalarial role.	Malaria such as encephalopathy, bilious malaria
Panax ginseng C.A.Mey [37]	Reinforce qi, reduce anxiety	Fatigue, chronic illness, dehydration	Main component is ginseng saponin (can be divided into three groups, namely, oleanolic acid group, protopanaxdiol, and the original Panaxatriol group)	Improve physical, mental activity, and strengthen immunity. The pharmacological activity of ginseng has an “adaptogens” like effect.	Antitumor activity
Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi [38]	Heat dampness, anticoagulation, tocolysis.	Cough, tocolytic, icterus		Decrease cerebral vascular resistance, improve cerebral blood circulation, increase cerebral blood flow and antiplatelet aggregation.	Paralysis after cerebrovascular disease
Astragalus hoangtchy [39]	“Solid the surface,” detumescence	“Qi weakness,” chronic diarrhea, rectal prolapse, blood in the stool, uterine bleeding, “blood deficiency,” diabetes, chronic nephritis, proteinuria.		Strengthens immunity, stimulates erythropoeisis, increases the number of red blood cells, hepatoprotective effect, enhances adrenal function, improves fatigue, antiaging, antiulcer	Hypertension, ischemic heart disease; cerebral infarction, cerebral thrombosis, diabetes, acute glomerulonephritis, myasthenia gravis, cardiac arrhythmia, psoriasis, chronic rhinitis.
Herba epimedii [40]	Reinforce kidney yang, antirheumatism	Atrophic arthritis, dormientum spermatorrhea, hypertension.		Modulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and adrenal cortical axis, and the thymus axis, immunomodulatory effects, antiasthmatic, anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects, improves the hemodynamic and hemorheology.	Polio; neurasthenia; treatment of chronic bronchitis; male hormone-like effects.