Campus Digest

HKBU develops Chinese medicine new formula for treating Alzheimer’s disease 

03 Feb 2021

 

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Professor Li Min, Professor of the Teaching and Research Division and Associate Dean of the School of Chinese Medicine at HKBU (middle); Dr Iyaswamy Ashok, Research Assistant Professor of the School of Chinese Medicine at HKBU (left); Dr K. Senthilkumar, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Mr and Mrs Ko Chi Ming Centre for Parkinson's Disease Research at HKBU (right), have developed a Chinese medicine formula named NeuroDefend that offers a potential novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
Professor Li Min, Professor of the Teaching and Research Division and Associate Dean of the School of Chinese Medicine at HKBU (middle); Dr Iyaswamy Ashok, Research Assistant Professor of the School of Chinese Medicine at HKBU (left); Dr K. Senthilkumar, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of Mr and Mrs Ko Chi Ming Centre for Parkinson's Disease Research at HKBU (right), have developed a Chinese medicine formula named NeuroDefend that offers a potential novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
The ingredients of NeuroDefend are Huang Lian, Huang Bai, Zhi Zi, Dan Shen, Yan Hu Suo and Gou Teng.

 

A research team led by Professor Li Min, Professor of the Teaching and Research Division and Associate Dean of the School of Chinese Medicine, has developed a Chinese medicine formula named NeuroDefend that offers a potential novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). 

 

NeuroDefend consists of Huang Lian, Huang Bai, Zhi Zi, Yan Hu Suo, Dan Shen and Gou Teng. Mouse model experiments showed that the new formula reduces the levels of amyloid-beta and insoluble hyperphosphorylated-tau protein, which are the major hallmarks of AD, in mice brains. It also improves cognitive function and memory in mice. 

 

A patent for the novel invention has been filed in the US and mainland China.

 

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