Shandong Science ›› 2022, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (1): 37-44.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2022.01.006

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Nature-effect relationship research of cold bitter and warm pungent medicinal properties of Xiaoyaosan for soothing the liver and relieving depression based on nature combination

SHI Jian-ru1,GAO Yao2,ZHAO Hui-liang2,TIAN Jun-sheng2,*(),WU Yan-fei1,*()   

  1. 1. First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China
    2. Modern Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • Received:2021-02-18 Online:2022-02-20 Published:2022-01-25
  • Contact: Jun-sheng TIAN,Yan-fei WU E-mail:jstian@sxu.edu.cn;wuyanfei2112@sina.com

Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to explore the internal relationship between temperature differences and efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Xiaoyaosan,used for soothing liver and relieving depression. The main active ingredients and targets of the combination of cold bitter and warm pungent medicinal properties were obtained by database retrieval. The protein-protein interaction network was constructed based on STRING platform, and Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes pathway and statistical analysis of the identified medicinal properties' combination protein-protein interaction network were carried out using metascape. The results show that the liver meridian properties of Xiaoyaosan were mainly involved in neurotransmitter, signal pathway, and endocrine pathway through HTR2B and other targets, and the cold bitter medicinal properties of Xiaoyaosan were mainly involved in energy metabolism and inflammatory reaction through CREBRF and other targets. The warm pungent medicinal properties of Xiaoyaosan was mainly involved in inflammatory reaction, neuronutrition, and amino acid metabolism through ADCY5 and other targets, thereby soothing the liver and relieving depression. The study explained the common characteristics of the liver meridian medicinal properties and specific characteristics of cold bitter medicinal properties and warm pungent medicinal properties from the molecular network level in Xiaoyaosan, and provided new ideas and new methods for the study of the internal relationship between the medicinal properties and efficacy of Xiaoyaosan.

Key words: drug combination, protein-protein interaction, network functional module, soothing the liver and relieving depression, Xiaoyaosan

CLC Number: 

  • R285