This invention belongs to the field of
pharmaceutical technology, specifically relating to the application of a
traditional Chinese medicine composition in the preparation of drugs for improving
cognitive impairment. By weight, the
traditional Chinese medicine composition comprises: 225-300 parts rhubarb, 50-75 parts pig bile
powder, 90-120 parts aster, 360-480 parts
scrophularia, 180-240 parts immature bitter orange peel, and 180-240 parts
areca nut. This invention is the first to demonstrate that a composition of six traditional Chinese medicines, including
scrophularia, rhubarb, and
areca nut, significantly improves
memory acquisition (induced by
scopolamine), consolidation (induced by
sodium nitrite), and retrieval impairments, covering the entire process of
memory formation, encoding, storage, and retrieval, thus overcoming the limitations of existing drugs that only target a single memory stage.