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The use of Chinese herbal drugs in Islamic medicine
Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2015This paper investigates some of the ways that Chinese medicine has been transferred to the Western world and to Islamic territories. During the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th century CE), the herbal drug trade promoted significant commercial and scientific exchange between China and the Muslim world.
Mojtaba, Heyadri +5 more
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Promoting Chinese Herbal Drugs through Regulatory Globalisation
Asian Medicine, 2015This study explores the social dynamics in promoting traditional Chinese medicine (tcm) drugs by making them acceptable to biomedical markets. It investigates the Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (cgcm), an organisation based in Hong Kong in pursuit of advancing tcm, and traces the development of the herbal formula phy906, a Chinese ...
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Chinese Herbal Medicine for the Treatment of Drug Addiction
2017This chapter summarizes recent developments in preclinical and clinical research on Chinese herbal medicines and their neurochemical mechanism of action for the treatment of drug addiction. We searched Chinese and English scientific literature and selected several kinds of Chinese herbal medicines that have beneficial effects on drug addiction. Ginseng
Weili, Zhu +3 more
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Cytotoxic Saponins from the Chinese Herbal Drug Yunnan Bai Yao
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1979Two cytotoxic saponins were isolated from the acetone extracts of the herbal preparation "Yunnan Bai Yao" by column chromatography. They were identified as a 3-([alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl()Rha leads to 2Glu)]-[alpha-L-arabinofuranosyl(1Ara leads to 4Glu)]-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-25(R)-spirost-5-en-3beta-ol (I) and 3-([alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl(1Rha leads to
P R, Ravikumar, P, Hammesfahr, C J, Sih
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Rapidly progressive fibrosing interstitial nephritis associated with Chinese herbal drugs
American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 2000Rapidly progressive fibrosing interstitial nephritis after a slimming regimen containing aristolochic acid has been identified as Chinese herbs nephropathy (CHNP). From 1995 to 1998, we observed 12 Chinese people from different areas of Taiwan who underwent renal biopsy for unexplained renal failure.
C S, Yang +3 more
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Anorectic sibutramine detected in a Chinese herbal drug for weight loss
Forensic Science International, 2006In the presented case, a young healthy woman had ordered a Chinese herbal medicine, called "LiDa Dai Dai Hua Jiao Nang", via internet. She took this product for approximately 1 week, but on the second day she developed severe headache, vertigo and sensation of numbness. After discontinuing medication, symptoms disappeared within 2 days.
Jung, Julia +2 more
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Current basic research on traditional Chinese herbal drugs
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, 1997Article 138 of the Basic Law, which will be Hong Kong's mini-constitution after July 1, 1997, states that " The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall, on its own, formulate policies to develop Western and traditional Chinese medicine and to improve medical and health services . . . . " Hence, the future government will have an
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Purity control of some Chinese crude herbal drugs marketed in Italy
Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2008The widespread use of herbal drugs, among which those coming from eastern Countries, has created a more compelling need for quality, a pre-requisite that can influence safety. In the present study, 10 Chinese crude herbal drugs marketed in Italy (Radix Ginseng, Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Radix Bupleuri, Radix
MAZZANTI, Gabriela +5 more
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Challenges and opportunities in chinese herbal drug industry
The field of therapeutic medicine and drug discovery is undergoing a renaissance, marked by a renewed interest in natural products as a source of novel pharmaceuticals. In the age of advanced synthetic chemistry and biotechnology, the vast potential of natural compounds often remains untapped, yet history has repeatedly shown that nature harbors a ...Agnihotri, Vivek, Tiwari, Prabhakar
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Chinese Herbal Drug Industry
2007Tremendous achievements have been made in Western medicine in the past that provide fast relief of symptoms at the disease sites, particularly under critical conditions. However, some are either ineffective or produce undesirable adverse effects, or are too costly in some complex diseases, especially chronic diseases.
Wei Jia, Lixin Zhang
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