BACKGROUND: Alzheimer disease is a main type of dementia, and the important clinical characteristic is the rapid declines of memory and cognitive ability.OBJECTIVE: To study changes of biochemical indices in brain, liver tissue and serum, as well as memory of mice with Alzheimer disease after Chinese medicine treatment. DESIGN: A comparative animal experimental observation. SETTING: Haierfu Research Center of Youjiang Medical College for Nationalities.MATERIALS: Forty-eight healthy Kunming mice (24 males and 24 females), 3 months old, were provided by the animal room of Youjiang Medical College for Nationalities. The animals were divided into four groups according to sex and body mass: control group, model group, Wuyuan Buxue treated group, Haierfu treated group, and 12 mice in each group. Wuyuan Buxue oral liquid was extracted from Polygonum multiflorum Thunb (red, radix) and longan meat (country medicine quasi- word B20020828). Haierfu oral liquid was extracted from Yinhua, poriacocos, licorice, etc (Q/45

来源：中国神经再生研究（英文版） 2007 年 2卷 5期