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Acupuncture in a Rat Model of Asthma
Published on: August 25, 2020
[Pharmacological study on asthma-relieving decoction (dingchuan tang) treating asthma]
Abstract:
Asthma-relieving decoction (Dingchuan tang) is a famous prescription of treating asthma, but its pharmacology has been not reported. This experiment showed that Asthma-relieving decoction (Dingchuan tang) can protect experimental asthma that blending of histamine and acetylcholine caused (P < 0.05 [symbol: see text] P < 0.01), can resist external trachea smooth muscle's contracting that histamine caused (P < 0.01), and can promote secretion of phenol red of rat's respiratory tract (P < 0.01). Results indicated that Asthma-relieving decoction (Dingchuan tang) has significant effect of relieving asthma and expelling phlegm.
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