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Plant Source Foods
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Jujube or Chinese date is the fruit of Ziziphus jujube belonging to the Rhamnaceous family. It grows mostly in Europe, southern and eastern Asia, especially the inland region of northern China, and Australia. Jujube fruit is consumed all around the world because of its health benefits, as both food and herbal medicine (113–114). Its main biologically active components include vitamin C, phenolics, flavonoids, triterpenic acids, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), jujuboside, and polysaccharides. Recent phytochemical studies of jujube fruits have shed some light on their biological effects, such as the antioxidant, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, anti-obesity, immunostimulating, hepatoprotective, and gastrointestinal protective activities (113). Jujube also possesses neuroprotective activities, including protecting neuronal cells against neurotoxin stress, stimulating neuronal differentiation, increasing expression of neurotrophic factors, and promoting memory and learning (114). In herbal medicine, one of the main functions of jujube is to calm the mind and to improve quality of sleep (114). More clinical studies of jujube fruits will be necessary for future therapeutic applications.
Community- and Home-Based Rehabilitation of COVID-19
Published in Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang, Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
Select food based on the food properties and the patient’s condition. For patients with cold and stomach symptoms, ginger, onion, mustard, coriander, and other spicy foods can be used to warm the stomach. For patients with dry throat, dry mouth, boredom symptoms, and other symptoms, choose green tea, fermented black beans, carambola, and other heat-clearing yin food. For patients with symptoms such as cough and phlegm, choose pears, lily, groundnut, almond, ginkgo, plum, Chinese cabbage, orange peel, perilla, and other cough- and asthma-clearing food. For patients with loss of appetite, abdominal distention, and other symptoms of temper weakness, choose hawthorn, Chinese yam, white lentil, poria, pueraria, semen raphani, Arenicola, and other spleen-invigorating and digestive food. For patients with constipation and other symptoms, choose honey, bananas, sesame seeds, and other moist laxative foods. For patients with symptoms such as insomnia, choose jujube kernel, cypress kernel, and other food that helps induce sleeping.
Examples of TCM formulas used in Chinese medicine
Published in Raymond Cooper, Chun-Tao Che, Daniel Kam-Wah Mok, Charmaine Wing-Yee Tsang, Chinese and Botanical Medicines, 2017
Raymond Cooper, Chun-Tao Che, Daniel Kam-Wah Mok, Charmaine Wing-Yee Tsang
Suan Zao Ren Tang (Sour Jujube Decoction) is a well-known remedy for treating insomnia. The mixture consists of a combination of five medicinal herbs as follows:Semen Zizyphi spinosae (Suan zoa ren)Sclerotinum poriae Cocos (Fu Ling)Radix Ligustici Chuanxiong (Chuan Xiong)Rhizoma Anemarrhena (Zhi Mu)Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gan Cao)
Adsorption of water pollutants using H3PO4-activated lignocellulosic agricultural waste: a mini review
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2023
Lawal Sirajo, Muhammad Abbas Ahmad Zaini
Honeydew peel AC by 20% H3PO4 at 490 °C exhibits a 997 m2/g specific surface (Yunus et al.2015). Corncob AC at 400 °C endows an optimum surface area of 700 m2/g for methylene blue removal capacity of 28.7 mg/g (El-Sayed et al.2014). Gao et al. (2017) reported the preparation of walnut shell AC by H3PO4 activation in a spouted bed. Quartz sand was used to assist fluidization due to the agglomeration of shell particles in the bed at high H3PO4 ratio. The AC with surface area of 155 m2/g was obtained at a 1:2 ratio and 700 °C. Yacob and Al Swaidan (2011) activated jujube leaf waste to yield high surface area AC (1139 m2/g) by 60% H3PO4 at 400 °C. A recent study showed that the properties of H3PO4-activated corn husk carbon can be enhanced by active functional groups and micro-mesoporous hierarchical structures (Ammar et al. 2021). Heidarinejad et al. (2020) recognized the agricultural lignocellulose biomass as potential low-cost adsorbent materials for the removal of various domestic and industrial water contaminants.
Oleanolic Acid Suppressed DMBA-Induced Liver Carcinogenesis through Induction of Mitochondrial-Mediated Apoptosis and Autophagy
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2021
Samar Hosny, Heba Sahyon, Magdy Youssef, Amr Negm
The limited conventional therapy of liver cancer are connected with high morbidity and mortality rate, suggesting imperative requests for introduction of novel efficient therapeutic drugs (7,8). Nutritional supplements of plant sources are currently being investigated for their use in the prevention and reversion of cancer progression (8). OA is a pentacyclic triterpenes with a wide spread occurrence throughout the plant kingdom. Oleanolic acid exists in olives (Olea europaea L.) and their products, as olive oil. It is estimated that the average daily intake of oleanolic acid in the Mediterranean diet, which includes olives and olive oils, is around 25 mg. Other foods such as various legumes that contain oleanolic acid are in the range of 0.251–2.591 µg/g fresh weight (9,10). High amounts of oleanolic acid are also present in edible parts of jujube (Ziziphus jujube Mill.) (11).
Physiological role of adiponectin in different tissues: a review
Published in Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 2020
S. Esmaili, M. Hemmati, M. Karamian
According to surveys and studies, adiponectin is a remarkable hormone secreted by adipose tissue and has many protective effects on different organs. The beneficial effects of adiponectin are through AMPK pathway. Besides the useful effects of adiponectin on the liver, kidneys, heart and brain, it is also useful for retinopathy prevention, improvement of immune system functions as well as cancer prevention, particularly breast cancer. The results presented here collectively confirm protective effects of adiponectin on different organs that led to it being suggested as a therapeutic target adipokine for metabolic syndrome and related complications. There are several ways to increase adiponectin levels naturally. These include the consumption of medicinal herbs such as jujube, barberry and saffron (Hemmati et al. 2015b). In addition, engaging in aerobic sports (Mohhebat et al. 2009) is an effective way to increase adiponectin levels. The right level of adiponectin can prevent diseases and improve organ function. This in collaboration with other prophylactic factors leads to additive effectiveness.