Precocious Puberty and the Lin28/Let7 Pathway: The Therapeutic Effect of the Nourishing “Yin” and Purging “Fire” Traditional Chinese Medicine Mixture in a Rat Model
Table 1
Ingredients (in grams per 1000 ml of water) of the nourishing “Yin” and purging “Fire” Traditional Chinese Medicine herbal mixture for the treatment of precocious puberty in rats.
Scientific name
Chinese name
Common name
Family
Weight
Rehmannia glutinosa
Sheng Di huang
Rehmannia root
Scrophulariaceae
15g
Scrophularia buergeriana
Xuan shen
Buerger’s Figwort
Scrophulariaceae
9g
Anemarrhena asphodeloides
Zhi mu
Zhimu
Liliaceae
9g
Cortex phellodendri
Huang bai
Phellodendron bark
Rutaceae
9g
Paeonia suffruticosa Andr.
Dan pi
Moutan
Ranunculaceae
9g
Alisma plantago-aquatica L. var. orientale Sam.
Ze xie
Alisma oriental
Alismataceae
9g
Prunella vulgaris L.
Xia ku cao
Common self-healing
Lamiaceae
9g
Chinemys reevesii (Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis)
