{"title":"Literature review: anti-diabetic potential of some selected edible vegetables in tropical region","authors":"S. Jhaumeer Laulloo, M. G. Bhowon, Yashna Jalloo","doi":"10.21037/lcm-21-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/lcm-21-16","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":"42105271","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 production of antioxidants and anticancer compounds from Bryophyllum spp. (Kalanchoe) using plant cell tissue culture","authors":"Eva Lozano-Milo, P. García-Pérez, P. Gallego","doi":"10.21037/LCM-20-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM-20-46","url":null,"abstract":"For centuries, plants have been widely used in traditional medicine worldwide for the treatment of many diseases. The subgenus Bryophyllum (genus Kalanchoe) have been used in ethnobotanic medicine across America, Africa and Asia. Traditionally, some formulations derived from leaves and roots of Bryophyllum spp. have been applied for the treatment of common illness such as coughs, fever, infections, insect bites, wounds and burns. Phenolic compounds and bufadienolides are the two major families of secondary metabolites identified in several species of the subgenus Bryophyllum. These compounds have gained much attention due to their associated antioxidant and cytotoxic activity, but they are synthetized by plants in fairly limited amounts. In this sense, plant tissue culture (PTC) technology provides a powerful methodology, able to overcome the limitations of low yields associated with conventional open field cultivation of medicinal plants. Several types of PTC methods are routinely employed in plant in vitro propagation, although micropropagation and cell culture are the most common. While micropropagation provides a reliable multiplication procedure, enabling a continuous in vitro production of great amounts of whole medicinal plantlets or just their organs producing the bioactive metabolites, such as their leaves and/or roots; the cell suspension culture procedure allows for the massive production of secondary metabolites using huge bioreactors. In both cases, the addition of biotic and abiotic elicitors and metabolic precursors trigger the bioaccumulation of secondary metabolites through the induction of plant defense mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47528243","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":"Entropy and potential energy as a key role of halalopathy in disease prevention and cure","authors":"J. Alzeer","doi":"10.21037/LCM-20-40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM-20-40","url":null,"abstract":": Disease development and curative treatment are complex and poorly understood. Many therapeutic models have been developed to enrich prevention and facilitate cures. Naturopathy uses natural remedies and natural therapies to enrich prevention, while the core of allopathy is a chemical drug rationally designed to adjust the speed of biological functions and facilitate cures. Halalopathy offers a new option for preventing disease by controlling the entropic state and/or facilitating cure by applying the concept of permissible drugs. For this reason, the concept of entropy was introduced as an essential element in disease prevention and cure. The majority of the literature deals with entropy as a result of the disease but rarely introduced as a therapeutic target. This review will further explore the role of entropy and shed more light on the rationalization and implementation of the concept as an essential parameter for prevention and cure.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42532042","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}
Tianyuan Wang, Jin-Hua Song, Jing Hu, Shuo Feng, Huina Zhang, Hong Wang, Bohua Li
{"title":"Efficacy and safety of Mailuo Shutong granule combined with low molecular weight heparin in the prevention of postoperative deep venous thrombosis: a systematic review and Meta-analysis","authors":"Tianyuan Wang, Jin-Hua Song, Jing Hu, Shuo Feng, Huina Zhang, Hong Wang, Bohua Li","doi":"10.21037/LCM-20-31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM-20-31","url":null,"abstract":"Background: to systematically evaluate the efficacy and safety of Mailuo Shutong granule combined with low molecular weight heparin in the prevention of postoperative deep venous thrombosis (DVT). Methods: PubMed, EMbase, Cochrane Library, China knowledge Network (CNKI), Wanfang Medical Database, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (SinoMed) and VIP Database were searched by computer from the establishment of the database to July 3, 2020. Search and collect randomized controlled trials of Mailuo Shutong granule combined with low molecular weight heparin in the prevention of postoperative DVT. Cochrane risk bias assessment tool was used to evaluate the quality of the included study, and RevMan5.3 software was used for meta-analysis. Results: A total of 61 articles about prevention of DVT after operation with Mailuo Shutong postoperative DVT were comprehensively evaluated by the method of Meta-analysis, so as to provide a basis for clinical decision-making. We present the following article in accordance with the PRISMA reporting checklist (available at http://dx.doi. org/10.21037/lcm-20-31). should be selected for outcome indicators.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42143279","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 regulation of Chinese Medicine in the U.S.","authors":"Ye-Seul Suh","doi":"10.21037/LCM-20-37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM-20-37","url":null,"abstract":": This study surveys the topic of regulation and reality of studies, the professional practice of Chinese Medicine (CM), the regulation and reality of Chinese phytotherapy, and the level of acceptance by the population in the U.S. The study refers to CM as Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine (AcuTM) to reflect the history and the development of the medicine in the U.S. While the origin of the practice of acupuncture in the U.S. may go back as far as the 1800s, the establishment of AcuTM in the U.S. has been defined by the 1971 article published in 1971 in The New York Times detailing the acupuncture treatment the columnist and journalist, James Reston, received in China. Nevertheless, acupuncture as a profession has only recently been recognized at a federal level in 2018, and quantitative and qualitative studies at a national level are lacking and/or more than a decade old. The information available in individual state and federal regulatory agencies was consulted as much as possible to obtain the most recent information. The singular theme that emerged in this study is changes and transformations of the profession in the U.S. due to its historical development in individual states impacting and affecting national regulations, which in turn, affect individual states as well as the study and the practice of the profession.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42897351","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}
Jing Hu, Huina Zhang, Shuo Feng, Yanxiang Ha, Chongyang Wei, Xuejiao Wang, Rui Zhang, Bohua Li
{"title":"The safety of Chinese herbal medicine: a systematic review of adverse events in randomized controlled trials","authors":"Jing Hu, Huina Zhang, Shuo Feng, Yanxiang Ha, Chongyang Wei, Xuejiao Wang, Rui Zhang, Bohua Li","doi":"10.21037/LCM-20-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM-20-23","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is centuries old, has developed a unique system of diagnosis and treatment of disease in practice, and is not only widely used in China, but is also practiced in other Asian countries and Western countries as well (1,2). Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is the mainstay and principal form of TCM practice, which comprises a pharmacopoeia of thousands of medicinal substances, primarily plants and some minerals and animal substances (3). There are several administration routes of CHM, including oral intake, inhalation, external use, Original Article","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44820234","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":"Two decades of research in soccer and acupuncture: to what point should we stick?","authors":"A. S. Ferreira, A. Maior","doi":"10.21037/LCM.2020.02.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM.2020.02.01","url":null,"abstract":"Soccer is the most popular sport with nearly 260 million participants of either sex and all ages worldwide (1). Elite soccer players perform high-speed running while dribbling, passing, kicking or throwing the ball during training and competitions. Players are also required to make fast, accurate movements requiring multi-directional body deceleration and acceleration, in addition to rapid changes of direction—therefore requiring high-level performances. Nonetheless, the physical and psychological stress associated with training and competition might temporarily affect the players’ capacity for subsequent performance and increase the risk of musculoskeletal injuries (2). Injuries of the lower extremity are highly frequent (~70%) in professional soccer players, with an average of 8 injuries per 1,000 h of exposure. Each player accumulates on average 2 injuries/season, which might result in a decline in physical performance during the hours and days following training and/or competition (2). Recovery is complete when the player reaches or exceeds a benchmark performance in at least one particular task related to muscle strength, power, or postural balance. In this scenario, there is a need for valid and reliable techniques to prevent musculoskeletal injuries, improve sports performance and accelerate the rehabilitation of injured soccer players. Herein we summarize the evidence obtained over the last two decades of research in acupuncture intervention for promoting health, healing soccer injuries, and increasing the performance of élite soccer players. What is acupuncture?","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42871630","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":"Purinergic mechanisms mediate acupuncture-induced analgesia","authors":"P. Illés","doi":"10.21037/LCM-20-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM-20-8","url":null,"abstract":"Pain is one of the conditions which verifiably benefits from acupuncture (AP) treatment in clinics. In spite of convincing meta-analyses of randomized, sham controlled clinical investigations or evaluated Cochrane reviews, there is still some disbelief about the efficiency of this therapeutic maneuver (1,2). In fact, it is hard to understand why AP strongly relieves some types of pain (low back pain, neck pain, osteoarthritis), while leaving other types of probably similar etiology only slightly or not at all affected (dental pain, coloscopy and intraoperative pain). Moreover, the strongest evidence for a positive outcome of AP treatment is in the case of postoperative nausea and vomiting, conditions not related to pain. Convincing arguments for the efficiency of AP, especially of electroacupuncture (EAP) in case of various painful conditions, were supplied by experiments on laboratory rodents (3,4). In this Editorial Commentary we will reflect to ideas presented in these overviews. The authors refer to numerous original publications supporting the participation of endogenous opioid peptides in AP-induced analgesia both in animals and human subjects (4). Thereafter they emphasize that in addition to peripheral and central opioids, purinergic signaling also contributes to analgesia.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.21037/LCM-20-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46450069","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}
Boris C Rodríguez-Martín, Liset M. Frías-Hernández, Juan C. O’Farril-Jiménez, Ángela M. Guillén-Verano, Leticia Pastorrecio-González, Yarai Chinea-Monzón, María C. O’Farril-Rodríguez, María J. Cartalla-Gálvez, Carlos A. Águila-Vega, Ismaray Molina-Santos, Ismaray Hernández-Rodríguez
{"title":"Placebo and food cravings control: results from two randomized controlled trials","authors":"Boris C Rodríguez-Martín, Liset M. Frías-Hernández, Juan C. O’Farril-Jiménez, Ángela M. Guillén-Verano, Leticia Pastorrecio-González, Yarai Chinea-Monzón, María C. O’Farril-Rodríguez, María J. Cartalla-Gálvez, Carlos A. Águila-Vega, Ismaray Molina-Santos, Ismaray Hernández-Rodríguez","doi":"10.21037/LCM.2020.01.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/LCM.2020.01.01","url":null,"abstract":"Background: We present two studies (hereafter Study 1 and Study 2), aimed to evaluate Bach Flower Remedies (BFR) effectiveness in controlling food cravings (FC), with assessment at three different stages: baseline, 1 month after baseline and 3 months after baseline. \u0000 Methods: Study 1 consisted in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial aimed to assess the specific effects of a BFR-formula and the overall effectiveness of the placebo-control on FC (n=173). Participants were assigned to BFR (n=65), Placebo (n=55) and Control group (n=53). On the other hand, Study 2 did not involve deception, and combined an implementation intention instruction with the BFR-formula, all aimed to reduce FC in overweight and obese adults while at home (n=74). Every participant received an implementation intention instruction to sip a glass of water whenever experiencing FC at home. BFR group (n=37) was instructed to sip water with BFR solution diluted in it, whereas Water group just sipped plain water (n=37). \u0000 Results: Study 1 did not support specific effects for BFR; placebo seemed to be effective in controlling FC. Moreover, findings from Study 2 suggest that BFR, used at least once a day, in conjunction with implementation intention intervention, may be helpful in reducing FC in overweight and obese adults while at home. \u0000 Conclusions: Results of both Studies helped us evaluate the ‘power of the placebo’ in helping individuals overcome FC in their everyday life.","PeriodicalId":74086,"journal":{"name":"Longhua Chinese medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41535208","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}