Martinez-Mota, Lucía Cruz-Tavera, Adrián Dorantes-Barrón, Ana María Arrieta-Báez, Daniel Ramírez-Salado, Ignacio Cruz-Aguilar, Manuel Alejandro Mayagoitia-Novales, Lilian Cassani, Julia Estrada-Reyes, Rosa
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Calea zacatechichi is a plant with an extensive popular and ritual use in Mexico. In healthy volunteers, it induces well-being and tranquility senses, and facilitates superficial stages of sleep. However, anxiolytic, and antidepressant-like effects and changes on the sleep-waking stages have not been explored. To determine anxiolytic and antidepres...
Lin, Yu-En Wang, Hsiang-Lan Lu, Kuan-Hung Huang, Yun-Ju Panyod, Suraphan Liu, Wei-Ting Yang, Shu-Hui Chen, Mei-Hsing Lu, Yun-Shen Sheen, Lee-Yan
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Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P. Kumm. (AM) is an edible mushroom that has been reported as treatment for several neurological disorders, such as dizziness and epilepsy in Asia. Importantly, AM shares a symbiotic relationship with Gastrodia elata Blume (GE), a medicinal herb with antidepressant-like properties. Researchers believe that AM may possess ph...
de Veras, Bruno Oliveira de Oliveira, João Ricardhis Saturnino de Menezes Lima, Vera Lúcia do Amaral Ferraz Navarro, Daniela Maria de Oliveira Farias de Aguiar, Júlio Césa... de Medeiros Moura, Geovanna Maria da Silva, José Wellinton de Assis, Caio Rodrigo Dias Gorlach-Lira, Krystyna de Assis, Priscilla Anne Castro
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Verbesina macrophylla (Cass.) S.F.Blake is a medicinal plant from South America, popularly known as "asa de peixe", "asa de peixe branco", "cambará branco" or "cambará guaçu", being used by traditional communities for its healing powers in the form of teas, infusions, liqueurs and extracts, for the treatment of bacterial and fungal infections of th...
Ma, Jian Xiong Wang, Bin Li, Hai Song Yu, Jia Hu, Hui Min Ding, Cai Fei Chen, Wang Qiang
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Diabetes mellitus-induced erectile dysfunction (DMED) is one of the most common complications of diabetes mellitus. Leech and centipede granules (LCG) have traditionally been used as blood-activating agents in various ethnomedicinal systems of East Asia, especially in China. It is often used to regulate bodily functions and considered as adjuvant t...
Latansio de Oliveira, Thais Fontana, Pâmela Dias Bavia, Lorena Cruz, Luiza Stolz Crisma, Amanda Rabello Sassaki, Guilherme Lanzi Alencar Menezes, Leociley Rocha Wang, Mei Beltrame, Flávio Luís Messias-Reason, Iara Jose
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The species Euphorbia umbellata (leitosinha) has been traditionally used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancer. Evaluation the effect of E. umbellata latex extracts obtained with hexane, chloroform, ethyl acetate and methanol on the activation of the complement pathways and neutrophil chemotaxis. The latex was partitioned using Soxh...
Tatiya-Aphiradee, Nitima Chatuphonprasert, Waranya Jarukamjorn, Kanokwan
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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory disorder of the colon. Garcinia mangostana Linn. (GM) has been traditionally used for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activities. The effects of GM and its bioactive constituent α-mangostin on dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced UC in mice were investigated. Adult ICR mice (n = 63) were pretreated w...
Qin, Weiwei Tong, Xiyang Liang, Rongyao Tang, Kai Wu, Xingdong Jia, Yuning Tan, Ninghua
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Suhuang antitussive capsule (Suhuang), one of traditional antitussive Chinese patent medicines, has been used for the treatment of post-infectious cough and cough variant asthma in clinical practice. It has been demonstrated to show numerous biological actions including antitussive and anti-inflammatory effects. This study aims to investigate the e...
Hu, Wanying Zheng, Yujie Xia, Pengguo Liang, Zongsuo
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Tetrastigma hemsleyanum Diels et Gilg, known as Sanyeqing in China, was an extensively used folk Chinese herbal medicine. This plant had been validated to be highly effective for treating high fever, pneumonia, hepatitis, gastritis, cervicitis, lymphatic tuberculosis, septicemia, and viral meningitis. As a review in T. hemsleyanum, this article aim...
Wang, Zhao-Yi Chu, Fu-Hao Gu, Nian-Nian Wang, Yi Feng, Dan Zhao, Xia Meng, Xue-Dan Zhang, Wen-Ting Li, Chao-Feng Chen, Yang
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Ranunculus japonicus Thunb. (short for R. japonicus) is a topically applied herb with the activities of removing jaundice, nebula and edema, preventing malaria, stopping asthma, promoting diuresis and relieving pain. It was firstly recorded in Zhouhou Beiji Fang and has been used for the treatment of malaria, ulcers, carbuncle, jaundice, migraine, ...
Li, Yueyue Lv, Diya Liu, Rong Shi, Yuhuan Wang, Rong Zhu, Zhenyu Yuan, Yongfang
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Saposhnikovia divaricata (SD), a Chinese crude drug, has long been recognized for therapeutic effect to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). At present, the mechanisms of SD treatment in RA have not been fully understood especially on the perspective of metabolomics. To study the pharmacodynamic effects of Saposhnikovia divaricata decoction on CIA rats, and ...
