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Research Archive

Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.

Please note that the most twenty recent research archive items are free to view but access to the thousands of items in the archive require a journal subscription.

Items 28 to 36 of 68 total

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Chang Shan offers treatment for autoimmunity

Categories: Immunity, Herb research
An active component extracted from the herb Chang Shan (Dichroae Radix) may be useful in the treatment of autoimmune disorders.
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Malaria becoming resistant to artemisinin

Categories: Herb research, Fever/infectious diseases
Evidence is emerging that the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the drug artemisinin.
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Herbal medicines are activated by gut microbes

Categories: Herb research
A Nature Outlook supplement focusing on traditional Asian medicine includes a number of interesting articles, including one on how Chinese herbal medicines interact synergistically with microbes in the human gut.
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Classical herb combinations prove more effective

Categories: Herb research
Chinese herbal medicine theory holds that herbs in a prescription potentise each other and that the doses described in classical prescriptions are crucial to their effect.
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Room for improvement in systematic reviews of herbal medicine

Categories: Herb research
An overview of systematic reviews of Chinese herbal medicines (CHM) published in the Cochrane Database has identified areas that could be improved in future studies.
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Gou Teng beneficial in Parkinson's disease

Categories: Neurological, Herb research
A pilot study carried out in Hong Kong has found that a formula containing the Chinese herb Gou Teng (Uncaria rhynchophylla) can help patients with Parkinson's disease carry out their daily living activities.
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Thunder god vine could provide new cancer drugs

Categories: Cancer, Herb research
Triptolide, isolated from the Chinese herb Lei Gong Teng (Tripterygii wilfordii Radix) could be a source of potential new anticancer drugs.
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Digestive herbal formulae have antacid effect in vitro

Categories: Digestive & Bowel disorders, Herb research
Two Chinese herbal formulae have been found to have antacid effects in an artificial stomach model.
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Yunnan Baiyao's secret ingredients leaked on US websites

Categories: Herb research, Professional
Chinese internet users were astonished to find the 'secret' ingredient list for the famous haemostatic herbal powder Yunnan Baiyao openly displayed on the websites of Amazon.com and the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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