| VaD | Vascular dementia |
| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| ROS | Reactive oxygen species |
| TCMCR | Traditional Chinese medicine compound recipe |
| DS | Danshen |
| HH | Honghua |
| DH | Danshen-Honghua |
| DHI | Danhong injection |
| BCCAO | Bilateral common carotid artery occlusion |
| UHPLC-QTOF MS | Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
| TIC | Total ion chromatograms |
| MS | Mass Spectrometry |
| PHZ | Phenylhydrazine |
| MNLC | Maximum nonlethal concentration |
| RBCs | Red blood cells |
| BPF | Bisphenol F |
| PLS | Partial least squares |
| HPLC | High performance liquid chromatography |
| VIP | Variable importance in projection |
| MCC | Multi-component combination |
| r2 | Correlation coefficients |
| LODs | Limits of detection |
| LOQs | Limits of quantification |
| RSD | Relative standard deviations |
| MWM | Morris water maze |
| ACh | Acetylcholine |
| AChE | Acetylcholinesterase |
| DHE | Dihydroethidium |
| TCM | Traditional Chinese medicine |
| BECCs | Bioactive equivalent combinatorial components |
| DMSO | Dimethyl sulfoxide |
| FI | Fluorescence intensity |
| SI | Staining intensity |
| ESI | Electrospray ionization |
| ICH | International Conference on Harmonization |
| S/NCNS | Signal-to-noise ratiosCentral nervous system |