Professor FU Wen-bin's experience in treating "five delays and five weaknesses" in children with yang-oriented approach. / 符文彬教授从阳论治小儿"五迟五软"经验概要.

Professor FU Wen-bin, based on the concept of the "yang-oriented approach", identifies "yang deficiency with excess yin" as the underlying pathological mechanism of "five delays and five weaknesses" in children. He recommends a treatment model that included acupuncture, moxibustion, and rehabilitation, integrating various therapeutic methods of acupuncture, refined moxibustion, and auricular point sticking. Specific acupoints along the conception vessel, governor vessel, and bladder meridian, as well as related acupoints with tonifying effects on spleen and kidney, are selected to achieve the therapeutic goal of "promoting yang and nourishing yang simultaneously".

[Control effects of different herbicides on weeds as well as their effects on growth and deve-lopment of broomcorn millet]. / 不同除草剂的田间杂草防效及对糜子生长发育的影响.

Selecting a herbicide suitable for broomcorn millet is a key issue in high efficiency and safe production of broomcorn millet and ecological environment improvement. We compared the control effects of 22 different herbicides on weeds as wells as their effects on growth and development of glutinous millet (Yumi 2) in the field. The results showed that, 1) soil applied Goyou, Butachlor, atrazine, and Benzipram, and stem- and leaf-applied WP mixture of tribenuron-methyl·carfentrazone-ethyl·MCPA-Na, Sigma Broad, Tengjing, Taoshi·Youxian and Kuofei had little phytotoxi-city, with broomcorn millet seedlings growing normally, and the other herbicides had phytotoxicities on broomcorn millet. 2) All the herbicides controlled weeds in the field to some extent, with better performance of soil applied herbicides than the stem- and leaf-applied ones, and affected plant height, functional leaf SPAD and spike weight per plant of broomcorn millet. 3) Compared with manual weeding, all herbicides reduced yields of glutinous millet. Compared with no herbicides application, some herbicides had yield-increasing effects. Among the soil applied herbicides, Go-you, Butachlor, atrazine, and Benzipram performed better in weeding control, increasing the yield of broomcorn millet by more than 60% compared with no herbicide control. Among the stem- and leaf-applied herbicides, Sigma Broad and WP mixture of tribenuron-methyl·carfentrazone-ethyl·MCPA-Na performed better in weeding control, increasing the yield of glutinous millet by more than 50% compared with no herbicide control. Therefore, applying 38% atrazine or 44% Monosulfuron to soil before the emergence of broomcorn millet, or stem- and leaf-applied 3.6% mesosulfuron-methyl or 55% WP mixture of tribenuron-methyl·carfentrazone-ethyl·MCPA-Na after the emergence of broomcorn millet, performed better in weeding control and with limited effects on the growth and development of broomcorn millet.

Field microclimate and yield for proso millet intercropping with mung bean in the dryland of Loess Plateau, Northwest China.

Based on the ecological environment features of Loess Plateau, we examined field microclimate characteristics and yield of four different intercropping patterns for proso millet (P) and mung bean (M) including 2:2, 4:2, 4:4, 2:4. The results showed that, compared with monoculture, intercropping increased plant height, leaf area index (LAI) and chlorophyll content (SPAD) of proso millet in its late growth stage, while LAI and SPAD of mung bean decreased due to the shade of the high proso millet. Mung bean appeared spindly growth for a while by increasing the plant height. Moreover, upper canopy illumination and air temperature during grain filling stage of proso millet decreased under intercropping conditions, but relative humidity substantially increased. These changes regulated soil temperature and light leakage, which decreased under intercropping systems, and thereby led to a cold and wet ecological environment. Poor atmospheric and light conditions formed a relative closure growth environment for mung bean, which suppressed its growth. The panicles, spike length, grain mass per plant and 1000-grain mass of proso millet under 2P2M, 4P2M, 4P4M and 2P4M treatments was significantly increased by 7.5%-45.0%, 2.2%-12.2%, 35.4%-94.0% and 2.3%-4.7%, respectively. This caused a 5.6%-20.7% increase of yield than the mono-culture. The branch number, pods per plant, grain mass per plant and 100-grain mass in mung bean were decreased under different intercropping treatments, and the yield was significantly reduced by 34.8%. Land equivalent ratios (LER) of each intercropping pattern were all greater than 1. Among them, LER of 2P4M was the maximum (1.86), and 2P4M treatment held relatively reasonable composite configuration. Our results suggested that 2:4 ratio of proso millet/mung bean intercropping patterns performed better than other ratios on the Loess Plateau.

[Border effect and physiological characteristics of broomcorn millet under film mulching on ridge-furrow for harvesting rainwater model in the semi-arid region of Northern Shaanxi, China].

To explore the border effect and physiological characteristic of broomcorn millet growing under different film mulching on ridge-furrow for harvesting rainwater models in the semi-arid region of Northern Shaanxi, China, a three-year field experiment was conducted with four different widths of ridge and furrow, and the bare land flat sowing as the control (NM). The width of ridge and furrow varied as ridge: furrow = 40 cm: 40 cm (P40), 60 cm: 60 cm (P60), 80 cm: 80 cm (P80), and 100 cm:100 cm (P100). The results showed that the wider the width of furrow and ridge was, the stronger the border advantage and the border effect index of the yield were. With the increase in width of furrow and ridge, the yield increasing effect of side rows increased with the maximum of 207.7%, and the yield increasing effect of middle rows decreased with the minimum of 10.3%. P60 reached the highest yield within three years. The yield contribution rate of side rows was higher than that of middle rows (P < 0.05). The chlorophyll contents, Ch1 a/Ch1 b, and photosynthetic rate of side rows were higher than those of middle rows among the different harvesting rainwater models. The wider the width of furrow and ridge was, the stronger the photosynthetic capacity of side rows was, and the weaker the photosynthetic capacity of middle rows was. The optimal type of ridge and furrow was P60 in the semi-arid region of Northern Shaanxi.