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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38029445/traditional-healing-in-kisii-county-kenya-a-personal-narrative
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Lydia Matoke
This article describes the author's experiences growing up in a family of traditional healers, an account of early guidance by her grandmother, a severe illness that influenced her to become a healer and the values that are central to her own work as a traditional healer who specialises in treatment of mental health problems. The impact of colonisation on traditional healing practices in Africa is highlighted.
November 2023: BJPsych International
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37103340/secondary-metabolites-with-antifungal-activities-from-mangrove-derived-fungus-monascus-purpureus-wmd2424
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ming-Der Wu, Jih-Jung Chen, Ming-Jen Cheng
The mold Monascus , also called red yeast rice, anka, or koji, has been used as the natural food coloring agent and food additives for more than 1000 years in Asian countries. It has also been used in Chinese herbology and traditional Chinese medicine due to its easing digestion and antiseptic effects. However, under different culture conditions, the ingredients in Monascus -fermented products may be changed. Therefore, an in-depth understanding of the ingredients, as well as the bioactivities of Monascus -derived natural products, is important...
March 24, 2023: Marine Drugs
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36238551/application-of-ft-ir-spectroscopy-and-chemometric-technique-for-the-identification-of-three-different-parts-of-camellia-nitidissima-and-discrimination-of-its-authenticated-product
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Wan Yin Tew, Chen Ying, Zhang Wujun, Liu Baocai, Tiem Leong Yoon, Mun Fei Yam, Chen Jingying
Camellia nitidissima C.W. Chi is a golden camellia recognized in Chinese herbology and widely used as tea and essential oil in Chinese communities. Due to its diverse pharmacological properties, it can be used to treat various diseases. However, unethical sellers adulterated the flower with other parts of Camellia nitidissima in their product. This study used an integrated tri-step infrared spectroscopy method and a chemometric approach to distinguish C. nitidissima 's flowers, leaves, and seeds. The three different parts of C...
2022: Frontiers in Pharmacology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34645201/-the-effect-of-platycodon-grandiflorum-and-its-historical-change-in-the-clinical-application-of-platycodonis-radix
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X Y Xunyan, X M Fang
Platycodon grandiflorum is currently mainly used in the treatment of lung issues such as ventilating the lung, resolving phlegm, benefiting pharynx and discharging pus in modern clinical practice. However, in Shennong Materia Medica Classic, the main applications of Platycodon grandiflora were for chest and hypocholic pain, abdominal fullness, intestinal ringing and anxiety palpitations. The considered efficacy of platycodon grandiflorum had changed dramatically since the Han Dynasty. Combing the records of platycodon grandiflorum in the literature of traditional Chinese herbs and comparing it with the clinical application of platycodon grandiflorum in the past dynasties, this paper found that the clinical application is the main factor affecting the effect change of platycodon grandiflorum and that the description of the efficacy of platycodon grandiflorum in the literature of Herbology is different from the actual application because of the complex interaction between the efficacy of prescription and drug efficacy...
May 28, 2021: Zhonghua Yi Shi za Zhi, Chinese Journal of Medical History
https://read.qxmd.com/read/34355225/different-types-of-components-obtained-from-monascus-purpureus-with-neuroprotective-and-anti-inflammatory-potentials
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Ho-Cheng Wu, Yih-Fung Chen, Ming-Jen Cheng, Ming-Der Wu, Yen-Lin Chen, Hsun-Shuo Chang
The mold Monascus has been used as a natural food coloring agent and food additive for more than 1000 years in Asian countries. In Chinese herbology, it was also used for easing digestion and antiseptic effects. Through a thorough investigation of a citrinin-free strain: M. purpureus BCRC 38110, four azaphilones, three benzenoids, one benzofuranone, one 5',6'-dihydrospiro[isochromane-1,2'-pyran]-4'(3'H)-one derivative, two steroids, and six tetralones have been successfully identified. Among them, monapyridine A (1), monatetralones A-E (2-6), and monabenzofuranone (7) were first reported...
August 6, 2021: Food & Function
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33549281/highs-lows-and-health-hazards-of-herbology-a-review-of-herbal-medications-with-psychotropic-effects
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Shannon L Smith-Stephens
Mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, and insomnia, are leading causes of hospitalization and disability for young and middle-aged adults. Approximately one-half of Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness during their lifetime. Plants and roots have been used as medicinal agents since the beginning of recorded time. Complementary and alternative medicine or complementary integrative medicine use has been increasing throughout most socioeconomic classes, cultures, and age categories...
March 2021: Nursing Clinics of North America
https://read.qxmd.com/read/33287494/-variety-evolution-and-herbal-textual-research-on-dihuang-in-chinese-classical-prescriptions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Wang, M E Cheng, Z L Zhan, W Zhang, H J Yang, H S Peng
Rehmanniae Radix ( Dihuang in Chinese) is a commonly used medicinal herb in a long history, raw Dihuang, dried Dihuang, processed Dihuang and other varieties have been recorded in the classical prescriptions of past dynasties. In order to clarify the origin and variety evolution of different processed products of Dihuang in Chinese classical prescriptions, ancient herbal books were examined in this paper. Both ancient and modern Dihuang is derived from Rehmannia glutinosa Libosch . in Scrophulariaceae, and R ...
September 28, 2020: Zhonghua Yi Shi za Zhi, Chinese Journal of Medical History
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32964451/extract-of-pyrus-nivalis-enhances-phagocytosis-in-lungs-after-particles-matter-exposure-in-balb-c-mice
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Yueh-Lun Lee, Yu-Di Chang, Chen-Wei Liu, Chen-Chen Lee
During past few decades, studies have demonstrated that particulate matter (PM) is the most serious environmental pollutant in industrial countries which mainly contributes for increasing prevalence of chronic respiratory inflammatory diseases. Healthy food supplements to prevent the inflammatory diseases are common and show notable effects. The effects of the extract of Pyrus nivalis, a common fruit and herbal medicine in Taiwan, on PM-induced airway inflammation in mice were investigated by feeding the extract orally for 21 days...
September 16, 2020: Journal of Food Biochemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/32789108/the-role-of-korean-medicine-in-the-post-covid-19-era-an-online-panel-discussion-part-2-basic-research-and-education
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Sunju Park, Dae-Hyun Hahm, Myungsoo Joo, Kyongmin Kim, Sunoh Kwon, Hoyoung Choi, Hyangsook Lee
Background: Experiencing difficulties and challenges though COVID-19 pandemic, there are voices that it needs to be discussed to seek direction of basic research and college education of Korean Medicine (KM) so that KM community can play a significant role in the future infectious disease outbreaks. Methods: This paper summarizes the edited highlights of an online video meeting by Google meet on May 19, 2020, organized by the Korean Medicine Convergence Research Information Center...
September 2020: Integrative Medicine Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31619002/aristolochic-acid-affects-upper-tract-urothelial-cancer-behavior-through-the-mapk-pathway
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I-Hsuan Chen, Hao-Lun Luo, Yu-Li Su, Chun-Chieh Huang, Po-Hui Chiang, Chia-Cheng Yu, Nai-Lun Lee, Jen-Jie Lin, Ming-Tse Sung
The prevalence of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) in Taiwan is relatively higher than thatin Western countries. Aristolochic acid (AA), which is widely used in traditional Chinese herbology, is now recognized to be one of the carcinogens for UTUC. Numerous UTUC patients have chronic kidney diseases or end-stage renal diseases; however, little literature hasreported on theoncogenic pathway of AA-related UTUC. The aim of our study was to identify the potential target treatment for AA-related UTUC. Here, we established an AA pre-exposure followed bya 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA) stimulus tumorigenic cell model...
October 15, 2019: Molecules: a Journal of Synthetic Chemistry and Natural Product Chemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/31356993/phytotoxicity-of-ionic-liquids
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Barbara Pawłowska, Arkadiusz Telesiński, Robert Biczak
Ionic liquids (ILs) have been one of the most interesting chemical entities over the last two decades and have been investigated by numerous scientists all over the world. However, during IL research, it has been shown that these compounds present toxicity to both terrestrial and aquatic plants, among others. The phytotoxicity of ILs depends on the type of cation, the length of the alkyl chain in the substituent or enantioselectivity, on the concentration used, and, it appears that the type of anion may also have an impact on toxicity...
July 23, 2019: Chemosphere
https://read.qxmd.com/read/30708219/you-are-what-you-eat-sequence-analysis-reveals-how-plant-micrornas-may-regulate-the-human-genome
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Bahareh Kashani, Mansoor Hasani Bidgoli, Seyed Abolfazl Motahari, Nafiseh Sedaghat, Mohammad Hossein Modarressi
BACKGROUND: Nutrigenomic has revolutionized our understanding of nutrition. As plants make up a noticeable part of our diet, in the present study we chose microRNAs of edible plants and investigated if they can perfectly match human genes, indicating potential regulatory functionalities. METHODS: miRNAs were obtained using the PNRD database. Edible plants were separated and microRNAs in common in at least four of them entered our analysis. Using vmatchPattern, these 64 miRNAs went through four steps of refinement to improve target prediction: Alignment with the whole genome (2581 results), filtered for those in gene regions (1371 results), filtered for exon regions (66 results) and finally alignment with the human CDS (41 results)...
March 2019: Computers in Biology and Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/29080703/hormesis-as-a-mechanistic-approach-to-understanding-herbal-treatments-in-traditional-chinese-medicine
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Dali Wang, Edward J Calabrese, Baoling Lian, Zhifen Lin, Vittorio Calabrese
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been long practiced and is becoming ever more widely recognized as providing curative and/or healing treatments for a number of diseases and physiological conditions. This paper posits that herbal medicines used in TCM treatments may act through hormetic dose-response mechanisms. It is proposed that the stimulatory (i.e., low dose) and inhibitory (i.e., high dose) components of the hormetic dose response correspond to respective "regulating" and "curing" aspects of TCM herbal treatments...
April 2018: Pharmacology & Therapeutics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28954359/-brief-investigation-on-the-issue-of-zhen-dan-cinnabar-hgs-irrelevant-to-qian-dan-minium-pb-3-o-4
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S N Shen
Zhen Dan, the abbreviated form of Zhen Dan Sha, or called Zhu Sha (Cinnabar, HgS). It can be ruled out that Zhen Dan is the nickname of Qian Dan (Minium, Pb(3)O(4)) through the homologous formulas contrast. The prescriptions containing Zhen Dan in the Zheng lei ben cao ( Classified Materia Medica ) was put under the "attached prescriptions" of Qian Dan, while Zhong yao da ci dian ( Great Dictionary of Chinese Materia Medica )and Zhong hua ben cao ( Chinese Herbology )all definitelyconfirmed that Zhen Dan is the other name of Qian Dan, which are wrong and should be corrected...
July 28, 2017: Zhonghua Yi Shi za Zhi, Chinese Journal of Medical History
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28883193/expert2owl-a-methodology-for-pattern-based-ontology-development
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Kais Tahar, Jie Xu, Heinrich Herre
The formalization of expert knowledge enables a broad spectrum of applications employing ontologies as underlying technology. These include eLearning, Semantic Web and expert systems. However, the manual construction of such ontologies is time-consuming and thus expensive. Moreover, experts are often unfamiliar with the syntax and semantics of formal ontology languages such as OWL and usually have no experience in developing formal ontologies. To overcome these barriers, we developed a new method and tool, called Expert2OWL that provides efficient features to support the construction of OWL ontologies using GFO (General Formal Ontology) as a top-level ontology...
2017: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/28108910/non-scientific-classification-of-chinese-herbal-medicine-as-dietary-supplement
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Kexin Bao
This article focuses the category status of Chinese herbal medicine in the United States where it has been mistakenly classifified as a dietary supplement. According to Yellow Emperor Canon of Internal Medicine (Huang Di Nei Jing), clinical treatment in broad sense is to apply certain poisonous medicines to fight against pathogeneses, by which all medicines have certain toxicity and side effect. From ancient times to modern society, all, or at least most, practitioners have used herbal medicine to treat patients' medical conditions...
March 2017: Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/27080947/baicalin-activates-glycine-and-%C3%AE-aminobutyric-acid-receptors-on-substantia-gelatinosa-neurons-of-the-trigeminal-subsnucleus-caudalis-in-juvenile-mice
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Hua Yin, Janardhan Prasad Bhattarai, Sun Mi Oh, Soo Joung Park, Dong Kuk Ahn, Seong Kyu Han
The substantia gelatinosa (SG) of the trigeminal subnucleus caudalis (Vc) receives nociceptive afferent inputs from thin-myelinated A[Formula: see text] fibers and unmyelinated C fibers and has been shown to be involved in the processing of orofacial nociceptive information. Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Huang-Qin, SbG), one of the 50 fundamental herbs of Chinese herbology, has been used historically as anti-inflammatory and antineoplastic medicine. Baicalin, one of the major compounds of SbG, has been reported to have neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects...
2016: American Journal of Chinese Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26427098/-herbological-study-on-the-medicinal-effects-of-roasted-licorice-and-honey-roasted-licorice
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Misato Ota, Masayuki Mikage, Shao-Qing Cai
In China, the crude drug licorice ("kanzo" in Japanese, "gancao" in Chinese) has been used both dried and roasted as the situation demands from ancient times. The meaning of "roasted licorice" is simply roasted and honey-roasted in ancient and modern times, respectively. However, it is not clear medicinal purposes of processed licorice or why licorice processed with honey began to be used. We researched ancient literature and found that the main objective of roasting was to change the property of licorice from cool to warm (i...
2015: Yakushigaku Zasshi. the Journal of Japanese History of Pharmacy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/26420521/-history-of-incompability-among-medicinals-of-glycyrrhiza-antagonistic-to-sargassum-euphorbia-pekinensis-kansui-and-genkwa-and-its-modern-recognition
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Chenxue Jiang, Yali Bian, Xinsheng Fan
The allegation of "Glycyrrhiza antagonistic to Sargassum, Euphorbia Pekinensis, Kansui, and Genkwa", being one of the hypotheses of "18 antagonisms" in TCM pharmacology, is referring to the antagonistic action among the Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhiza and Radix Euphorbiae Kansui, Radix Euphorbiae Pekinensis, Flos Genkwa, and Sargassum when compounded together in a single recipe. By reviewing its history concerted with modern knowledge, it can be found that the theory of "seven emotions" was originated from Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica; while the Variorum of the Classic of Materia Medica firstly and definitely records that Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae is forbidden to be used with Radix Kansui, Flos Genkwa, Radix Euphorbiae Pekinensis, Sargassum together in a single formula...
May 2015: Zhonghua Yi Shi za Zhi, Chinese Journal of Medical History
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25829769/a-new-method-for-identification-of-natural-artificial-and-in-vitro-cultured-calculus-bovis-using-high-performance-liquid-chromatography-mass-spectrometry
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Yonggang Liu, Peng Tan, Shanshan Liu, Hang Shi, Xin Feng, Qun Ma
OBJECTIVE: Calculus bovis have been widely used in Chinese herbology for the treatment of hyperpyrexia, convulsions, and epilepsy. Nowadays, due to the limited source and high market price, the substitutes, artificial and in vitro cultured Calculus bovis, are getting more and more commonly used. The adulteration phenomenon is serious. Therefore, it is crucial to establish a fast and simple method in discriminating the natural, artificial and in vitro cultured Calculus bovis. Bile acids, one of the main active constituents, are taken as an important indicator for evaluating the quality of Calculus bovis and the substitutes...
April 2015: Pharmacognosy Magazine
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