Yuan Fu-sheng
2010
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Chinese Traditional Patent Medicine
Abstract
AIM: To select the prescription of harmine hydrochloride cream and to study the anti-itching effect of harmine hydrochloride cream. METHODS: A comprehensive score system,including appearance,homogeneity,coating performance,viscosity,particle diameter,temperature-resistant test,and centrifugal effect were established as evaluative criteria. Then uniform design was used for selecting the prescription of harmine hydrochloride cream. The histamine phosphate and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) were used to induce mouse cutaneous pruritus. Then the anti-pruritic effect of harmine hydrochloride cream in contrast to Piyanping Ointment as control group. RESULTS: The optimized prescription was as follows: 8% of monostearin,5% of Vaseline,6. 1% of beeswax, 1. 1% of Span-60,1. 9% of Tween-80. The local application of harmine hydrochloride cream could alleviate the itching induced by histamine phosphate and 5-HT,respectively. And the anti-pruritic effect of harmine hydrochloride cream was stronger than the effect of the positive control group. CONCLUSION: The prescription of the harmine hydrochloride cream is available,reasonable,and reproducible. The harmine hydrochloride cream has the anti-pruritic effect.