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{"title":"Experience treating Parkinson’s disease with acupuncture","authors":"Peng Chen, M. Eriksson, Siyi Ma, Qian Deng, Qi-rong Xia, Yi Wang, Huiping Chen, Zhenfan Yang, Hongke Lv","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-27","url":null,"abstract":"PD is a neurodegenerative disease, most commonly seen among middle-aged and elderly people. There is neither any known treatment capable of halting the progression of PD, nor is there any known cure, treatment focuses primarily on decelerating disease progression and improving quality of life. Western medical treatment chiefly consists of oral medication and deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, while TCM treatment consists mainly of herbal decoctions and acupuncture (1). Clinically, the cardinal motor symptoms of PD are: (I) resting tremor, (II) bradykinesia, and (III) rigidity. Common non-motor symptoms include abnormal sense of smell, constipation, rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD), pain, fatigue, salivation, and so on (2).","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45159261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acupuncture’s neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic basis","authors":"P. Dorsher, Marco Antonio Helio da Silva","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-48","url":null,"abstract":": Ever since acupuncture’s tenets were first delineated in the Huangdi Neijing (Neijing) treatise ~200 BCE, theorists and researchers have sought to define the anatomic and physiologic bases for acupuncture’s beneficial clinical effects in treating pain and non-pain medical conditions. In the last century, technical advances in both the basic biomedical sciences (including anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, electrophysiology, and radiology) and also clinical research methodologies have led to publication of an extensive body of basic science and clinical research publications on the topics of acupuncture anatomy, physiology, and clinical effects. This body of literature demonstrates that the beneficial clinical effects of acupuncture derive from the activation of peripheral nerves by needling, with resulting secondary modulatory effects on the peripheral nervous system, the central nervous system (CNS) (including the limbic system), the autonomic nervous system, and the immunologic and endocrinologic systems. A neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic model of acupuncture’s mechanisms and effects is the only theory that can be reconciled with research findings of the efficacy of laser acupuncture and the positive randomized clinical trial results in studies that used non-penetrating or minimally penetrating “sham” needle control interventions, and this model is also consistent with anatomic and physiologic descriptions contained in the Neijing . This review article summarizes the anatomic, basic science, and clinical evidence that demonstrates acupuncture signaling and its myriad clinical benefits can be understood as arising from and transduced by neural mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43876903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A narrative review on pharmacological significance of Eurycoma longifolia jack roots","authors":"A. Segaran, L. S. Chua, Nurul Izzati Mohd Ismail","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-32","url":null,"abstract":"Institute of Bioproduct Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia; Department of Bioprocess and Polymer Engineering, School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia Contributions: (I) Conception and design: LS Chua; (II) Administrative support: LS Chua; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: LS Chua; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: NI Mohd Ismail; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: A Segaran; (VI) Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors. Correspondence to: Lee Suan Chua. Institute of Bioproduct Development, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Email: chualeesuan@utm.my.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42759766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The anatomic, clinical, and physiologic correspondences of myofascial trigger points and classical acupuncture points","authors":"P. Dorsher","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-47","url":null,"abstract":": Chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions are among the most common presenting complaints of patients seeking health care treatments. These chronic pain conditions result in disability, reduced quality of life, and significant health system economic burdens. Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is the most common chronic musculoskeletal pain condition, and its prevalence increases with age. Given the average age of individuals globally is increasing as is the average human lifespan, socioeconomic and healthcare burdens related to MPS will rise in the coming decades. The allopathic medicine standard for treating MPS is outlined in the Trigger Point Manual , which illustrates >200 of the “most common” myofascial trigger point (mTrP) locations, their clinical (pain and non-pain) indications, and their myofascial referred-pain patterns. Though early MPS practitioners typically administered local anesthetic and/or corticosteroid injections to deactivate mTrPs, the Trigger Point Manual documents dry needling of mTrPs is similarly effective. Over the past 2–3 decades In the United States, there has been significant growth of dry needling skill certification of physical and occupational therapists, who utilize acupuncture needles to deactivate mTrPs. There has been controversy since the 1970’s regarding whether any anatomic and/or physiologic relationship exists between these “most common” mTrPs and their referred-pain patterns described by allopathic researchers, and the classical acupuncture points and primary channels described by Traditional Chinese Medicine some 2,000 years previously. If these “most common” mTrPs and classical acupoints can be shown to be similar anatomically, clinically, and physiologically, this would not only allow integration of ancient and contemporary clinical and research databases to optimally treat MPS, but also would have potential importance in elucidating acupuncture’s mechanisms. This review summarizes prior literature findings regarding the anatomic, clinical, and physiologic correspondences of the “most common” mTrPs and classical acupoints, and the clinical and research implications of these relationships.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44765801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qualitative research of nurses’ psychological experience in treating COVID-19 corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients: a systematic review and meta-synthesis","authors":"X. Tang, Haimeng Zhao, Bo Li","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-4","url":null,"abstract":"Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China Contributions: (I) Conception and design: X Tang; (II) Administrative support: H Zhao; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: X Tang, H Zhao, B Li; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: H Zhao; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: B Li; (VI) Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors. Correspondence to: Bo Li. Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, No. 23 Art Gallery Back Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100010, China. Email: libo@bjzhongyi.com.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45405355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Narrative review of evaluation on the effect of traditional Chinese medicine on Alzheimer’s disease via machine learning approaches","authors":"Bohua Li, Yiyi Lin","doi":"10.21037/lcm-20-43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-20-43","url":null,"abstract":"Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disorder without effective recovery treatment, is a major public health issue for the society with population ageing. The early treatment and care strategies may have a significant effect in delaying the progress of AD. Some evidence-based medicine research has found that a treatment strategy containing the combination of modern medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) may have advantages in AD to some extent. However, the current medical evidence may hardly evaluate the effect of TCM for AD with high confidence due to the low quality of related random control trials. Hence, to found a pipeline to evaluate the effect of TCM on AD more objectively, it is of interest to discuss how to use machine learning approaches to evaluate the effect of TCM for AD based on real-world data. For evaluating the effect of TCM for AD, this article gives a suggestion about a model that may be suitable to evaluate the effect of TCM for AD for different patients. And, this article will be divided into two parts. The first part will give a brief introduction to AD, TCM and machine learning. The second part will give the general suggestion about how to build the data set and evaluate the data. However, since AD is a complex disease, this review can only give a general suggestion for researches in this area and further consensus in details under censor between researchers is still needed.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47754363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Curcuma longa and curcumin on metabolic syndrome: a systematic review","authors":"LUCAS FORNARI LAURINDO, S. Barbalho, R. Joshi, Bruna de Alvarez Rezende, R. Goulart, É. Guiguer, A. Araújo","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-25","url":null,"abstract":"Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a complex condition predisposes the population to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). It is characterized by at least three risk factors: elevated blood pressure, triglycerides, glycemia, waist circumference, and reduced levels of HDL-C. These clusters of factors increase inflammatory and oxidative processes that promote and aggravate other metabolic conditions that increase morbidity and mortality (1,2). Subjects with MS usually develop diabetes, dyslipidemia, Review Article","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48217236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Temporomandibular dysfunction: energy patterns for acupuncture treatment","authors":"M. L. R. Sousa, M. L. Gil, M. I. Montebelo","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-60","url":null,"abstract":"Background: TMD affects one of the most complex joints in human beings, which is the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), and whose etiology is multifactorial, as a therapeutic approach, acupuncture stands out for not being invasive and presenting effective results. The aim of the study is to present the prevalence of syndromes in patients with temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD) as well as the effectiveness of the proposed treatments. This is a non-randomized, longitudinal follow-up clinical study. Methods: Participants are patients with TMD without distinction of muscle and/or joint origin, whose data were collected from 2008 to 2018 during consultations at the Acupuncture Clinic of FOP/UNICAMP, and who were treated with acupuncture according to the syndrome presented, within the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine. This study included all those who required exclusive acupuncture treatment and whose care protocol for the diagnosed syndrome was used throughout the treatment. Individuals who were undergoing treatments in conjunction with another therapy and/or who did not maintain the treatment for at least 3 sessions were excluded. The dependent variable was the assessment of pain using the VAS scale, which ranged from 0 (no pain) to 10 (maximum pain), with initial assessment (VASi) and at the end (VASf) of the treatment. Descriptive analysis in relative and absolute terms and t-student test with 95% significance were used. Results: The most prevalent syndrome was emotional imbalance, that is, altered Shen with 36% of occurrence (n=18), followed by Spleen Yang deficiency syndrome and ascending Yang of the Liver, equally with 20% of occurrence (n=10 in each group). There was a 74% reduction in VAS in the group as a whole, with the initial mean VAS being 5.36 with sd =3.37 and the final VAS being 1.42 with sd =2.05, with a statistically significant decrease in pain P<0.001. Conclusions: Shen alteration was the most prevalent syndrome and acupuncture therapy proved to be effective, with significant reduction percentages for all syndromic diagnoses presented and thus can be considered as one of the therapies for the management of TMD.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49492408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Auriculotherapy for low back pain in primary health care: systematic review","authors":"Davi Saba N’bundé, Fátima Terezinha Farias Pelachini, Joyce Ribeiro Rothstein, Marcos Lisboa Neves, C. Tesser","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46689354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potential use of plants and their extracts in the treatment of coagulation disorders in COVID-19 disease: a narrative review","authors":"S. Lamponi","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-23","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease, i.e., COVID-19, is caused by the virus called “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)”. Infection induces predominantly respiratory illness but is also associated with coagulation disorders which play an important role in the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and outcome of the disease. The treatment of hemostasis disorders of COVID-19 patients is a difficult problem to solve. For example, heparin is quite effective drug in reducing mortality in severe COVID-19 forms but not able to prevent venous and arterial thromboembolic complications. Moreover, anticoagulant therapy with heparin is associated with several adverse reactions, such as thrombocytopenia, osteoporosis, hypoaldosteronism and hypersensitivity reactions. New alternative anticoagulant molecules can be obtained from plants which are rich in polyphenols and flavonoids. These compounds, besides being potent antioxidants, also possess anti-inflammatory effect and, because able to inhibit the activity of many enzymes, including serine proteases, also anticoagulant properties. The purpose of this narrative review is to provide an overview of current literature data on coagulation disorders associated with COVID-19 disease and of the anticoagulant activity of plants and their extracts in order to evaluate their possible clinical application as alternative sources of novel molecules with anticoagulant and antithrombotic activity for the treatment of coagulation disorders in patients with COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42062436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}