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To investigate the AAPH scavenging activities of 22 flavonoids and phenolic acids and 9 extracts of Chinese materia medica.
The antioxidant activities of the samples were evaluated by an oxygen radical absorbance capacity method (ORAC), at the same time, the total contents of flavonoids and phenolic...
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PMID: 21137342
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There were 268 kinds of medicines recorded in the book of Lei Gong's Treatise on preparation and broiling of materia medica (Leigong Paozhi Lun). Among these medicines, 178 medicines were prepared with adjuvant medicines, including general and special compatible adjuvant medicines. These adjuvant me...
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PMID: 21141506
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Chronic feeding of p-dimethyl amino azo benzene (p-DAB) and phenobarbital (PB) elevated the levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), triglyceride, cholesterol, creatinine and bilirubin and lowered the l...
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PMID: 20674840
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We can only find a number of different conceptions or paradigmatic ideas of health, in a variety of references and combinations. Health was seen as: 1. harmonious balance between principles or entities, 2. result of a struggle against opposing forces, 3. continuous dialectical process, 4. hierarchy...
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PMID: 20674847
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The database contains about 200 entries of randomised clinical trials, non-randomised clinical trials, observational studies, drug provings, case reports and case series. Twenty-two clinical fields are covered and eight different groups of species are included. The database is free of charge and ope...
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PMID: 20674843
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Translated as 'Shunshi Liaofa' in Mandarin, homeopathy received considerable attention from local physicians, thanks to Dr Heribert Schmidt who shared his views on the similarities between this western medical therapy and Chinese medicine during his visit to Hong Kong in 1954. Considered widely as n...
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PMID: 20674846
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It is feasible to use a semi-standardised protocol for individualised homeopathic prescribing in PMS, in daily practice. Its predictive value and the percentage of women with PMS/S helped by the selected medicines remain to be evaluated in further research. In future research, active promotion will...
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PMID: 20674844
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Most tested products had very low metal/metalloid levels (below the limit of quantification of the method), but the metal/metalloid levels in the remaining products were in the following ranges (in microg g(-1)): Pb 0.33-1.29 (6 samples), Cd 2.78 (1 sample), As 0.22 (1 sample), Hg 0.02-0.12 (24 samp...
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PMID: 20674842
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These results suggested that administration of pilose antler blood was effective in alleviating osteoporosis in ovariectomized rats....
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PMID: 20882756
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The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Switzerland is rather high, and therefore, the occurrence of accidental intakes of CAM remedies by children and associated intoxications is to be expected. In the present study, the inquiries to the Swiss Toxicological Information Centre tha...
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PMID: 19823869
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There are conceptual and historical links between homeopathic medicine and modern allergy desensitization treatment. Conventional allergy desensitization and homeopathic treatment both utilize small doses of substances that might cause symptoms in order to prevent or treat a hypersensitive state. Ho...
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PMID: 20359268
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To study the effects of deer tendons collagen on osteoporosis rats induced by retinoic acid.
Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into normal control group, model control group, deer tendons collagen high, medium and low-dose groups, osteoporosis rats of retinoic acid-induced were set up. Changes...
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PMID: 20681309
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To prepare an oral nutritional liquid for protecting liver and antialcoholic from defatted oyster powder.
The orthogonal design was used to determine the optimal enzymatic hydrolytic condition and the enzymolysis liquid from oyster was deodorized and seasoned.
The optimum hydrolytic conditions were...
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PMID: 20681313
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The water soluble matrix (WSM) of pearl powder [Hyriopsis cumingii Lea (Unionidae)] was extracted, and the insoluble residue was demineralized, size-fractionated, and named as MR14 (> 14 kDa), MR3-14 (3-14 kDa), and MR3 (< 3 kDa). The effects of WSM, MR14, MR3-14, and MR3 on primary mouse oral fibro...
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PMID: 20645827
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Oral drug bioavailability depends on gastrointestinal absorption, intestinal transporters and metabolism enzymes are the important factors in drug gastrointestinal absorption and they can also be induced or inhibited by the active ingredients of Chinese materia medica. This article presents importan...
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PMID: 20423015
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The impairment of sexual function diagnosed in approximately one third of apparently healthy men dictates the necessity of their rehabilitative treatment. The objective of the present study was to evaluate effectiveness of the combination of clinical homeopathy and dynamic electrical neurostimulatio...
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PMID: 20364686
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We first confirmed the extract from Viola yedoensis Makino, but not from Radix Isatidis, the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula Chui-Uren-Chien (CUC), or a Western homeopathic medicinal drink Método Canova, could inhibit the replications of herpes simplex virus-1 and enterovirus 71 in the h...
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PMID: 20128053
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Homeopathy is a controversial system of care that is practiced extensively in Europe, Asia, and South America primarily for functional and minor ailments. In this review, published studies on homeopathic remedies and cancer were examined. Data were obtained from multiple research disciplines, rangin...
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PMID: 20486620
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We researched the explanation on nature of Chinese materia medica in the medical books of past dynasties, combined with the modem research, analyzed the relationship between generative reception and physical environmental factors, and discussed the effect of physical environmental factors on nature...
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PMID: 20349732
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To study the chemical constituents in the fresh marine sponge Spongilla Wagner.
Compounds were separated and purified through various chromatographic methods and their structures were identified by spectroscopic data.
Seven compounds were isolated and identified as 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (I), p-hydro...
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PMID: 20518307
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In this paper, the production and marketing of medicinal materials of plant origin are sorted and analyzed. The total annual yield and total output value are presented. The resources sustainable development is discussed by three aspects, i.e., the yield Top 60 items, rare and endangered species and...
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PMID: 19943470
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The study was undertaken to examine whether Carcinosin-200 (Car-200) could provide additional ameliorative effect, if used intermittently with Natrum sulphuricum-30 (Nat Sulph-30) against hepatocarcinogenesis induced by chronic feeding of p-dimethylaminoazobenzene (p-DAB) and phenobarbital (PB) in m...
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PMID: 19788063
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Recently investigating mechanisms on delaying aging of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and discovering high effective related medicines have been become hot spot and have achieved some progress. This review comprehensively analyzed the mechanism of TCM on delaying senility in recent years. The mo...
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PMID: 19894550
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(1) Compared with sham group, the level of serum E2, Te and P significantly decreased (P < 0.01), FSH, LH content significantly increased; Blood T lymphocyte subpopulation CD3+ cells, CD4+ cells and CD4+/CD8+ ratio significantly decreased, serum IL-2 content also significantly decreased (P < 0.01)....
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PMID: 19873736
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HPLC showed its relative purity was 95% (HPLC)and Mw was 6741. 236 Da. We observed that peripheral administration of neurotoxin strongly reduced the mechanical allogynia and thermal hyperalgesia for 24 hours, associated with this neuropathy (L5 spinal nerve ligation). CONCLUSION: The fraction from v...
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PMID: 19873725
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate DPPH radical scavenging activities of 31 flavonoids and phenolic acids and 10 extracts of Chinese materia medica. METHOD: The antioxidant activities of the above samples were evaluated by a DPPH method, the half-wave oxidation potentials (E1/2) of the 31 compounds were dete...
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PMID: 19873785
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Arsenicals have been used since ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and in the Far East as part of traditional Chinese medicine. In Western countries, they became a therapeutic mainstay for various ailments and malignancies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fowler's potassium bicarbonate-based...
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PMID: 20052806
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The molecular weight of the group I was 33.1 kD. The inhibitory effect of the group I on Hela cells was obvious, as its inhibitive rate was 60.8% on Hela cells when the polysaccharide's concentration was 3.13 microg/mL, but it had no effect on the Eca 109 cells. CONCLUSION: The group I has specific...
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PMID: 19764321
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PCM toxicity significantly increased ALT, AST and ALP (321.00 +/- 87.93, 273.17 +/- 45.68, 257.50 +/- 17.64 IU/l vs normal control, 33.33 +/- 0.61, 89.33 +/- 9.50, 152.17 +/- 11.40 IU/l respectively, P<0.05), prolonged phenobarbitone induced sleeping time (from 277.50 +/- 8.04 min to 335.83 +/- 7.00...
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PMID: 19675387
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The property and flavor (four properties of cold, hot, warm, cool and five flavors of spicy, sweet, bitter, sour, salty) which marked the function and efficacy of Chinese Materia Medica had different records in TCM ancient literature, even being completely opposite. By analyzing the reason, it mainl...
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PMID: 19930924
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According to archaeological discoveries, humans began to make use of marine natural resources early in the Palaeolithic era. In the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, they began to use marine life as medicines and also had simple cognitions on their efficacy and processing. In the Q...
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PMID: 19930925
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The article deals with an investigation of therapeutic efficiency combined with applications of biological preparations and special medical-improving gymnastic exercises at treatment of a vertebral cervical osteochondrosis on the one hand, traditional means on the other hand. 76 patients aged 31-62...
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PMID: 19556639
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The reference X-ray diffraction Fourier fingerprint pattern and characteristic diffraction peaks of Cornu Elaphuri Davidiani were obtained by fifteen samples of Cornu Elaphuri Davidiani from different ages and different parts. CONCLUSION: This method can be used for identification and evaluation of...
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PMID: 19771837
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Our results showed that after treatment with EFH, the apoptosis rate of Hep-G2 cells was enhanced in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. Two weeks after the treatment, the average tumor volume, the necrosis rate and the growth rate of the implanted tumor in group C were significantly differe...
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PMID: 19399404
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Homeopathy uses information gathered from healthy volunteers taking homeopathic substances (pathogenetic trials) for clinical treatment. It is controversial whether such studies produce symptoms different from those produced by placebo. Objective: To test whether homeopathic preparations produce dif...
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PMID: 19420956
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C II from Zaocys has no direct effect on the activity of IL-1beta and TNF production by synoviocytes in vitro. Oral administration of type II collagen protein from Zaocys can effectively suppressed the activity and level of the cytokines production by synoviocytes in rats with adjuvant arthritis (AA...
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PMID: 19645241
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I of directive 2001/83/EC an assay is only performed in case of a health hazard due to toxic compounds. The concept of marker substances as usually used in phytotherapy cannot be transferred to mother tinctures without research effort. For example the marker substances echinacoside, apigenin-7-gluco...
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PMID: 19275866
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We determined the effects of calculus bovis on the fibroblast proliferation, collagen production, matrix metalloproteinases-2, -9 activities and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 production by MTT assay, chloramine T method, gelatin zymography and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays respectivel...
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PMID: 19621589
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In the recent 20 years, three major investigational achievements about Daodi CMM (Chinese medicinal materials) have been made as follows: (1) The herbal textual about Daodi CMM have been collected and revised systematically, and the causes and pattern of Daodi CMM formation and development were illu...
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PMID: 19526774
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Anastomositis and abdominal cavity infiltrate constitutes the most frequent early inflammatory complications, occurring after gastrointestinal operations. The informativity of diagnostic methods of these complications, the volume and efficacy of conservative curative procedures were shown. Introduct...
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PMID: 19673110
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After 13 weeks, the high-dose group and antler glue group could significantly improve the BMD and bone mineral content of the ovariectomized rats, reduce BGP and ALP content, and remarkably increase the width of trabecula bone and bone trabecula area percentage, increase osteoblasts significantly, a...
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PMID: 19504956
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These results suggest Natrii sulfas has a protective effect on ischemia-induced brain edema and improves the physiological symptoms....
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PMID: 19507272
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Headaches, epilepsy and conditions affecting the peripheral nerves were the neurological pathologies that were described at greatest length in The Treasure of Medicines for All Illnesses, and for which a greater number of natural prescriptions were compiled....
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PMID: 19621310
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