Advances in external therapies of traditional Chinese medicine for the management of hyperuricemia: a comprehensive review [PDF]
Frontiers in EndocrinologyHyperuricemia is a prevalent metabolic disorder whose rising incidence over recent years has been closely linked to the development of gout, renal dysfunction, and cardiovascular disease, thereby exerting a substantial burden on patient quality of life ...
Minyang He +11 more
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Efficacy and safety of bloodletting therapy for acute herpes zoster: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in NeurologyBackgroundThe high incidence of acute herpes zoster (HZ) and limitations of conventional therapies in pain control necessitate exploration of complementary approaches.
Danhui Wu +6 more
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Bloodletting as a harmful and misguided first-aid response to seizures in sub-saharan Africa: a case-based review [PDF]
Epilepsy & Behavior ReportsEpileptic seizures are common neurological events whose sociocultural interpretations have long been linked to supernatural causes or biomagico-symbolic beliefs. Depending on the region, blood may be regarded as the cause, seat, vector of evil, or even a
Gloire Chubaka Magala +8 more
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Effect of Pricking-bloodletting Therapy Combined with Zhuang-medicine-thread Moxibustion on TLRs/MyD88 Signal Pathway in a Rat Model of Acute Gouty Arthritis [PDF]
Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2023 Background With the change of people's environment and diet structure, acute gouty arthritis (AGA) has become a common clinical disease, which is prone to recurrence, causing harm to patients' health. Pricking-bloodletting therapy combined with
ZHU Danmeng, HUANG Yuying, LUO Tong'an, HE Changyuan, CHEN Rilan
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Succès et déclin d’un agent thérapeutique : la sangsue
Histoire, Médecine et Santé, 2023 The purpose of this article is to question what contributes to the success of certain remedies at a given time. Leeches are an interesting example in this respect.
Nicolas Sueur
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Bloodletting in Babylonia Revisited
Aestimatio, 2023 : The question of bloodletting in Babylonia (and surgery in general) has hardly been studied, since evidence is sparse, while at the same time bloodletting in the Babylonian Talmud has been assumed to have been employed, although based upon questionable ...
M. J. Geller
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Treatment by bloodletting in the past and present [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2016 Introduction. Therapeutic bloodletting has been practiced at least 3000 years as one of the most frequent methods of treatment in general, whose value was not questioned until the 19th century, when it was gradually abandoned in Western medicine,
Čolović Nataša +2 more
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Bhutan Health Journal, 2021 Introduction: Bad-mKhris-mGo-Nad is a type of headache caused by imbalance of bile and phlegm humor. In gSo-ba-Rig-pa, headache is categorized in two categories such as primary headaches and secondary headaches.
Karma Ugyen +2 more
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Who are you, Doctor Bianchon? On Honoré de Balzac's illness and death Leonid I. Dvoretsky
Клинический разбор в общей медицине, 2021 The paper explores clinical manifestations and the course of the disease in Honoré Balzac, the famous French writer. Interpretation of possible causes and the disease treatment is analyzed.
Leonid I. Dvoretsky
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Historical Surgical Treatments in Polish Veterinary Medicine
Animals, 2020 Several methods of surgical treatments have been used in the history of Polish veterinary medicine, many of which have now been forgotten. In the present study, a review was conducted of Polish-language veterinary medicine books published from the 16th ...
Slawomir Gonkowski +3 more
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