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Senile dementia, also known as late-life dementia, is a severe cognitive disorder that onset in old age, often accompanied by marked impairment of social and daily functioning and varying degrees of neuropsychiatric symptoms. Patients show impairment of remote and recent memory, aphasia (difficulty understanding or…

China Health Media Group's China Medical Science Press has published the "Famous Doctors Talk with You About Diseases" series; one of the volumes is titled Alzheimer's Disease. I gained a great deal from reading this book and would particularly like to recommend it to middle-aged…

In Yan Shi Xiao'er Fanglun (Mr. Yan's Pediatric Formulas) there is a formula called "Changpu Wan" (Acorus Pill). Its composition is: Shichangpu (Acorus tatarinowii Rhizome) and Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza Root), each 2 qian (6 g); Renshen (Panax ginseng Root) 5 qian (15 g); Chishizhi (halloysite…

In Li Dongyuan's Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach (Piwei Lun) there is a formula called "Banxia Baizhu Tianma Tang". Its composition is: Huangbai (Phellodendri Cortex) 5 qian (15 g), Ganjiang (dried Zingiber Rhizoma) 7 qian 5 fen (22.5 g); Tianma (Gastrodiae Rhizoma), Cangzhu (Atractylodis…

Tianwang Buxin Dan (Heavenly Emperor's Heart-Supplementing Pellet) is a famous TCM formula for treating spirit and mind disorders. TCM "spirit disorders" relate to psychiatric and cardiac diseases in modern medicine; in fact, the two often occur comorbidly. Historically several formulas have borne the name Tianwang…

Xiao Xuming Tang (Minor Life-Extension Decoction) comes from the Beiji Qianjin Yaofang (Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Gold for Emergencies). Its composition: Mahuang (Ephedrae Herba), Fangji (Stephaniae Tetrandrae Radix), Renshen (Ginseng Radix), Huangqin (Scutellariae Radix), Guixin (Cinnamomi Cortex inner portion), Gancao (Glycyrrhizae Radix), Shaoyao (Paeoniae…

The mind of the past cannot be grasped; the mind of the present cannot be grasped; the mind of the future cannot be grasped. — Diamond Sutra If one day bio-neurology advances to the point where the psychology and philosophy that we moderns so enjoy…