Yang, Jiaying Zhang, Yu Jiang, Lijuan Li, Caixia Sun, Zhenxiao Zhang, Yan Lin, Tianfeng Jiang, Yanyan Liu, Bin
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Nelumbo nucifera (N. nucifera), a kind of edible Chinese herbal, has been studied in treating hyperlipidemia. However, the hypolipidemic mechanism of N. nucifera remains unknown. Aims of this review: We aimed to screen the effective constituent of N. nucifera alkaloids and elucidated the potential mechanism for treating hyperlipidemia. A triple com...
Yao, Jingjing Shen, Qinghong Huang, Min Ding, Ming Guo, Yajuan Chen, Wenbo Lin, Yuefang Zheng, Yaqiu Yu, Shaofang Yan, Wenxin
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Herb-derived anti-tumor agents, such as paclitaxel and vincristine, exert significant but varied effectivenesses towards different cancer types. Similarly, Centipeda minima (CM) is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine that has been used to treat rhinitis, relieve pain and reduce swelling, and recently found to exert overwhelming anti-tumor eff...
Lai, Jia Tang, Yong Yang, Fei Chen, Jianping Huang, Fei-Hong Yang, Jing Wang, Long Qin, Dalian Law, Betty Yuen-Kwan Wu, An-Guo
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
In the past five years, ethnopharmacy-based drugs have been increasingly used in clinical practice. It has been reported that hundreds of ethnopharmacy-based drugs can modulate autophagy to regulate physiological and pathological processes, and ethnomedicines also have certain therapeutic effects on illnesses, revealing the important roles of these...
Jahani, Reza Behzad, Sahar Saffariha, Maryam Toufan Tabrizi, Niyusha Faizi, Mehrdad
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Salvia limbata C. A. Mey. (Persian name: Maryam Goli-e-labeh dar) has been used for treating central nervous disorders such as insomnia, anxiety and depression in Persian traditional medicine. S. limbata is known for its pharmacological activities which could be at least in a part, upon the presence of rosmarinic acid (RA). However, the sedative-hy...
Fan, Yanxiao Lin, Fengke Zhang, Ruifei Wang, Miaomiao Gu, Ronghui Long, Chunlin
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Acer truncatum Bunge is a multifunctional plant in northern China. It has traditionally been used to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and treat skin trauma by different linguistic groups including Mongolian, Tibetan, and Korean. Although research has verified that A. truncatum contains a variety of active ingredients, especially ...
Kwon, Yong-Jin Seo, Eun-Bi Kim, Seul-Ki Noh, Kum Hee Lee, Haeri Joung, Yeo-Won Shin, Hyun Mu Jang, Young-Ah Kim, Yu Mi Lee, Jin-Tae
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Chamaecyparis obtusa (Siebold & Zucc.) Endl. (C. obtusa) has been used as folk medicine in East Asia and has been reported to alleviate inflammatory diseases. However, the detailed mechanisms for the anti-inflammatory effects of C. obtusa remain unclear. Although the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of natural products have been studied for decades, it...
Mukherjee, Pulok K Singha, Seha Kar, Amit Chanda, Joydeb Banerjee, Subhadip Dasgupta, Barun Haldar, Pallab K Sharma, Nanaocha
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Medicinal plants of Cucurbitaceae family consist of several edible fruits and vegetables consumed worldwide since ancient times. The plants of this family have played an essential role in the ethnopharmacological as well as traditional medicinal system globally and their evidence is well established in several traditional literatures. Various plant...
Ruyvaran, Maede Zamani, Ali Mohamadian, Alireza Zarshenas, Mohammad M Eftekhari, Mohammad Hassan Pourahmad, Saeedeh Abarghooei, Ebrahim Fallahzadeh Akbari, Abolfazl Nimrouzi, Majid
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Journal of ethnopharmacology
Carthamus tinctorius L. (Safflower) has been widely recommended to treat metabolic disorders in traditional herbal medicine in Persia, China, Korea, Japan, and other East-Asian countries. The anti-hypercholesterolemic and antioxidant effects of this plant have been well documented, but its protective effects against Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) have n...
Chand, Jagdish Panda, Samir Ranjan Jain, Siddhi Murty, U S N Das, Archana Moni Kumar, Gangasani Jagadeesh Naidu, V G M
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Cleome species in particular (C. gynandra Linn, C. viscosa Linn, C. rutidosperma DC, C. felina Linn.), commonly known as spider flowers, belong to the genus of flowering plants in Cleomaceae family. Found primarily in the African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Egypt, South Africa, and Nigeria), Asian countries (India and Afghanistan), European countri...
Liu, Xinnan Quan, Shuai Han, Qiaqia Li, Jingyang Gao, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jingze Liu, Dailin
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Rosa odorata Sweet var. gigantea (Coll. et Hemsl.) Rehd. et Wils (Rosaceae), is also known as "GU-GONG-GUO", the root of which has been recognized as common ethnodrug from the Yi nationality for treating inflammatory bowel disease. The aim of the present study was to investigate the preventive and curative effects of extract from the fruits of Rosa...
