Summary of Modern Studies on Anshen Buxin (NervEase™) Capsule

Chinese Use: Neurasthenia, neurosis, psychosis, apoplexy.

Modern studies on pharmacodynamics reveal that this product yields the action of sedation, hypnosis, anti-arrhythmia, and improving intelligence.

• Sedation and hypnosis: This product inhibits the central nervous system. It balances the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex, renders the nervous activity normal. It is found that in the dose of 0.78g/kg and 1.56g/kg, it markedly decreases the number of movements, elevates the rate of falling asleep when taking pentobarbital as hypnotic, prolongs the sleeping time under hypnotic dosage, demonstrating its action of sedation, hypnosis and anti-convulsion.
• Anti-arrhythmia: it antagonizes the ventricular fibrillation in mice caused by chloroform when administered at 1.56g/kg and antagonizes the arrhythmia caused by barium chloride at the dosage of 1g/kg indicating that this product is capable of anti experimental cardiac arrhythmia.
• Improvement of intelligence: this product increases the intelligence of man, elevates working efficiency, regulates the attention and harmonizes sophisticated movements, increases the flexibility and endurance.

Clinically, it was used in neurasthenia, neurosis, psychosis, and apoplexy.

• Neurasthenia: This product cured the difficulty in falling asleep, decrease of memory, vertigo, tinnitus. It is especially good for insomnia in hypertension cases.
• Neurosis: This product was satisfactory for neurasthenia of deficient heart-blood type, hyper function of ascending liver yang, ameliorated or cured insomnia, headache, dizziness, vertigo.
• Psychosis and apoplexy: This product yielded good effect for psychosis of manic or tension types. Apoplexy with palpitation, tinnitus, dry mouth, and fidgetiness were also indications.

Excerpt from A Guide to TCM Products, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2003

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