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COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Roheena Abdullah, Ayesha Toor, Hina Qaiser, Afshan Kaleem, Mehwish Iqtedar, Tehreema Iftikhar, Muhammad Riaz, Dou Deqiang
TCM employs traditional aromatherapy as preventive measures for people who are uninfected but exposed to virus. Herb sachets containing herbs like Atractylodes lancea, Artemisia argyi (silver wormwood) and Phellodendron amurense (amur cork tree) are used for aromatherapy and have proved to impart significant protection against viral diseases [41].
Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Treatment Techniques for COVID-19
Published in Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang, Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
Moxibustion therapy, is the fire attack of moxibustion,which can strengthen the yang qi and benefit the true yin. Artemisia argyi, which is aromatic, is a rare medicine that can pass shierjing, regulates breath and blood circulation and cures all diseases. As recorded in New Compilation of Materia Medica, “folium artemisiae argyi is bitter, warm, hot and pure yang. It can return the sun, pass Shierjing, Sanyin, combing breath and blood, expel cold and dampness … Moxibustion fire, can penetrate all the meridional and get rid of all disease.” Li Chan, in The Introduction to Medicine, it is said, “use moxibustion to restore Yuanyang for the weak.” This shows that moxibustion has a strong role in invigorating breath and generating blood. Breath, blood, jin, fluid, and essence depend on the warmth and gasification of yang qi, so that the yin fluid of the whole body can run normally, and the water and grain can be used by people. Therefore, moxibustion can warm the yang and production qi, and warm the cold and dampness. In addition, the yang qi of the critically severe patients is deficient, thus gasification can be easily lost, and if coupled with various external attacks, it may lead to “yang qi is sudden deficient thus xie qi bursts out.” The rise and fall of yang qi determines the susceptibility and prognosis of individuals with COVID-19. In this pandemic, most of the patients are based on pandemic virus, which is mixed with cold and dampness evil spirits. Therefore, it is an important method in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 to return to the yang to reverse the adverse situation, restore health, and dispel the evil.
Eupatilin inhibits keratinocyte proliferation and ameliorates imiquimod-induced psoriasis-like skin lesions in mice via the p38 MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway
Published in Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, 2023
Donghui Bai, Xiaolei Cheng, Qiong Li, Bo Zhang, Yan Zhang, Fang Lu, Tianxiao Sun, Jiejie Hao
At present, there are many methods for the treatment of psoriasis, including creams, phototherapy, oral, or injection drugs, but the current treatment methods have single efficacy, numerous side effects, poor tolerance of patients, and cannot meet the needs of clinical patients [19,20]. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find an effective and low toxicity drug for the treatment of psoriasis. Many compounds from natural sources with better anti-inflammatory activity and minimal side effects are increasingly appreciated, and have been generally used in clinical processes to prevent and treat many diseases [21,22]. Eupatilin [2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-5,7-dihydroxy-6-methoxychromen-4-one] (Figure 1) is a pharmacologically active ingredient isolated from Artemisia argyi, which has anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, cardioprotective, anti-cancer, and neuroprotective effects [23,24]. Studies have verified the anti-inflammatory activity of eupatilin in LPS-stimulated macrophages and TNF-α-stimulated HUVEC cells [25,26]. Currently, there are few studies on eupatilin in skin disease in mice, and the only study is that eupatilin could alleviate DNCB-induced atopic dermatitis in mice [27]. However, the activity and mechanism of eupatilin in psoriasis-like lesions are not yet clear. In this study, we reported the therapeutic effect of eupatilin in IMQ-induced psoriasis-like lesions in mice, and preliminarily confirmed that its effect was associated with the inhibition of p38 MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway in HaCaT cells.
A review on charred traditional Chinese herbs: carbonization to yield a haemostatic effect
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2019
Zhi Chen, Si-Yong Ye, Ying Yang, Zhong-Yuan Li
These medicines can be applied to deficiency-cold haemorrhage syndromes caused by spleen failing to manage blood and unstable Chong Channel, such as hematochezia, uterine bleeding, purpura and dark tint face. This type of medicine is mild in nature with weak stypticity and can be used as interior-warming drugs alone. After carbonizing, TCM can strengthen its warm nature and reduce its pungent and dispersing nature. For example, raw Artemisia Argyi is used for cooling blood and stopping bleeding with cold nature. After processing, charcoal Artemisia Argyi is used for warming meridians and stopping bleeding with warm nature and often applied to treatment of insufficiency-cold female bellyache, uterine bleeding, dysmenorrhea and postpartum abdominal pain, etc. (Chen et al. 2016). After carbonizing, radix ginger strengthens its warm nature and reduces its pungent and dispersing nature. It can be used for warming the middle energizer and stopping diarrhoea, warming meridians and stopping bleeding and treating insufficiency-cold uterine bleeding, hematochezia and stomach ache (Mo et al. 2015).
Carbon dots from Artemisiae Argyi Folium Carbonisata: strengthening the anti-frostbite ability
Published in Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology, 2021
Hui Kong, Yusheng Zhao, Yafan Zhu, Wei Xiong, Juan Luo, Jinjun Cheng, Yue Zhang, Meiling Zhang, Huihua Qu, Yan Zhao
Artemisia argyi is an herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae/Compositae family. Artemisiae Argyi Folium (AAF), the leaf of A. argyi, which is named AiYe in Chinese, has been widely used as both food and herbal medicine, with a history of nearly 3,000 years. It is recorded in the book of Zhuangzi that burning AAF is a common folk custom that the Chinese began around 300 BC. After high-temperature combustion, AAF turns into a charcoal herb, named Artemisiae Argyi Folium Carbonisata (AAFC) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).