TCM: Made in China

Cheung, Felix

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“…CHM, the ancient traditional treatment methodology popular in China and surrounding areas, has been recognized as a potential important pharmaceutical area of TCM and holds promise for preventing diseases in a holistic way [53]. In a very long period of clinical practice, it is known for its effectiveness and beneficial contribution to public health and disease control.…”

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Pharmacology: An Improved Pharmacology Approach for Chinese Herbal Medicine Research

Zhou

Qin

et al. 2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Despite many successful applications of Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) in the treatment and prevention of neurological diseases (ND), the fully scientific understanding of CHM's action mechanisms had been hampered for lack of appropriate methods to explore the combinatorial rules, the synergistic mechanisms, and the molecular basis of CHM. As an improved pharmacology approach, cerebrospinal fluid pharmacology (CSFP), based on the fact that cerebrospinal fluid plays an important role in the health maintenance of specific survival environment for neurons and glial cells, has been constructed and applied to CHM research for treating ND. In the present review, the concept and advantages of CSFP are briefly introduced. The approaches and key technologies of CSFP in CHM research are also collated and analyzed. Furthermore, the developing tendency of CSFP is summarized, and its framework in CHM research is also proposed. In summary, CSFP provides a new strategy not only to eliminate some barriers of CHM research for treating ND, but also to broaden the pharmacology research for bridging the gap between CHM and modern medicine. Moreover, the advancements in CSFP will bring about a conceptual move in active ingredients discovery of CHM and make a significant contribution to CHM modernization and globalization.

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Pharmacology: An Improved Pharmacology Approach for Chinese Herbal Medicine Research

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Qin

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“…use in Asian countries in distinctive formats that share some common principles 1,2 . Knowledge concerning the use of TOM over the millennia has grown empirically through experience and folklore, but products are often indicated to treat a great variety of seemingly unrelated symptoms, without reference to a mechanism of action or effect on an underlying disease-causing mechanism.…”

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“…The ultimate goal of TOM is to restore and maintain the energy and the overall balance of the human body 1 . This is fundamentally different from Western drug discovery and development, which is based on the concept of targeting a specific receptor, ion channel, enzyme or regulatory protein involved in causing the disease and symptom.…”

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A systems approach to traditional oriental medicine

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“…Throughout history, medicinal plants have been used traditionally to treat various ailments by folk societies or ethnic groups [1]. Some traditional medical systems like Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Unani contribute to the rapid development of traditional medicines.…”

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Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants used by Li people in Ledong, Hainan Island, China

Huang

Liu

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Acta Soc Bot Pol

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The paper documents on the uses of traditional medicinal plants used for treating human ailments in three villages of Ledong, a county inhabited by Li ethnic group in the southwest of Hainan Province, China. Semi-structured interviews, key informant interviews and participatory observations were used to collect ethnobotanical data from February to March 2012 and in July 2013. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Thirty native knowledgeable people were interviewed. The Li community uses 50 plant species in 36 families for medicinal purposes. The most common medicinal plant families were Leguminosae (14%), Compositae (6%), and Euphorbiaceae (6%), and the most common preparations methods were decoction (84%), crushing (38%), and poultice (34%). The traditional medicinal plants were mainly used for hemostasis (12.9%), body pains (11.4%), gastrointestinal disorders (11.4%), and trauma (10%). Twenty-four species of medicinal plants (48%) have never been reported in the literature of Li medicines. In addition, 22 species (44%) have already been studied by researchers and their extracts or compounds were good bio-actives. However, the rapid socioeconomic development in the county is the main threat to the conservation of Li medicine and has resulted in the decrease in the abundance and use of medicinal plants and associated traditional knowledge. Other factors accounting for a decrease in the use of Li medicinal plants like loss of plant diversity, change of land use, and threatened traditional knowledge were equally discussed.

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TCM: Made in China

Cited by 406 publications

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Cerebrospinal Fluid Pharmacology: An Improved Pharmacology Approach for Chinese Herbal Medicine Research

Cerebrospinal Fluid Pharmacology: An Improved Pharmacology Approach for Chinese Herbal Medicine Research

A systems approach to traditional oriental medicine

Ethnobotanical study on medicinal plants used by Li people in Ledong, Hainan Island, China

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