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Concept of the Traditional Medicinal System and Holistic Health
Published in Mehwish Iqbal, Complementary and Alternative Medicinal Approaches for Enhancing Immunity, 2023
Traditional Chinese medicine based on the holistic health approach plays a considerable role in enhancing the development of medicine and life science. In the meantime, with the dramatic rise in the frequency of chronic diseases, chemical-based medicines cannot sufficiently satisfy the needs for health preservation or moreover the prevention and management of diseases. Human health stresses the applications and development of natural drugs on a large scale, to which knowledge and experiences of traditional medicines can give a lot. Globally, the ever-rising utilisation of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine is a good sign of interest from the public in the Chinese medicinal system. Traditional Chinese medicine is now an indivisible fragment of the public health system in China. Recently, traditional Chinese medicine has progressively acquired substantial endorsement as a part of complementary and alternative systems of medicine in western regions. Chinese medicine, which is the most significant part of TCM, is nowadays utilised in the health care system of around 1.5 billion people globally (Dobos et al., 2005; Qi et al., 2013). It should be observed that in traditional Chinese medicine, numerous ingredients and herbs are blended in accordance with the firm rules to create prescriptions, which are described as formulations (Fang Ji in Chinese) (Yuan et al., 2016).
A Functional Approach to Gynecologic Pain
Published in Sahar Swidan, Matthew Bennett, Advanced Therapeutics in Pain Medicine, 2020
A variety of complementary and alternative medicine approaches have been proposed for treating uterine fibroids, however there have not been well-constructed trials evaluating these. Traditional Chinese medicine has been modestly successful with certain herbal and acupuncture interventions but these are beyond the reach of most integrative clinicians. Chasteberry, as previously discussed, can decrease symptomatology associated with fibroids, and oral iodine therapy may decrease bulk symptoms due to its anti-estrogenic activity. Indeed, these are reasonable basic interventions, and are commonly offered within our practice. Nutritional intervention toward decreasing inflammatory markers, insulin resistance, and peripheral estrogen conversion, along with micronutrient support are also reasonable long-term interventions, though they may have a nominal effect on acute presentations.
Equity lessons learned from pharmerging countries
Published in Songül Çınaroğlu, Equity and Healthcare Reform in Developing Economies, 2020
One of the strengths of the Chinese medicine system is its ability to incorporate traditional medicine with modern treatments. The combination of traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine benefits patients by improving their quality of life (Xie et al., 2018).
Pharmacokinetic study on the co-administration of abemaciclib and astragaloside IV in rats
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2022
Sen Sun, Lu Liu, Hongming Song, Hong Li
Traditional Chinese medicine has been widely used in clinic, especially in China. Except for cancer patients, some people received herbal treatments for anticancer therapy also increase the possibility of drug-drug interactions (Qi et al. 2015; Wang et al. 2020). Astragalus membranaeus (Fisch.) Bge. (Fabaceae) is a Chinese traditional medicinal plant with various pharmacological functions and has been used in the clinical treatment of breast cancer (Fu et al. 2014; Dong et al. 2022). As one of the most active ingredients of astragalus, astragaloside IV has been reported to suppress metastasis and tumour progression and enhanced the chemosensitivity of breast cancer (Jiang et al. 2017; Zheng et al. 2019; Hu et al. 2021). It is prescribed to breast cancer patients who received therapy of abemaciclib and influenced the pharmacokinetics and pharmacology of abemaciclib.
Study on the mechanism of treating COVID-19 with Shenqi Wan based on network pharmacology
Published in Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy, 2021
Xian-wen YE, Ya-ling Deng, Xia Zhang, Min-min Liu, Ying Liu, Ya-ting Xie, Quan Wan, Min Huang, Tao Zhang, Jia-he Xi, Jin-lian Zhang
More and more evidence shows that improving lifestyle and making rational use of traditional Chinese medicine is of great significance to disease prevention and physical protection. The multidisciplinary intersection can solve different clinical problems of COVID-19 infection, and rational use of modern means, such as biotechnology and bioinformatics, can play a key role in the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 infection [19]. Traditional medicine in China, India, and Iran suggests some herbs for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of diseases, including COVID-19 [20]. The use of systems biology methods to study SARS-CoV-2 is undoubtedly helpful to decipher the molecular interactions in the process of infection, contribute to the emergence of pathogenesis, but also help to develop new treatment strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus [21]. The emerging network pharmacology technology is one of the methods of system biology, which has been widely used to explore the possible mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of diseases through the level of multicomponents, multitargets, and multipathways [22].
Comprehensive study on the administrative, economic, regional, and regulatory prospects of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Published in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021
Taraneh Mousavi, Shekoufeh Nikfar, Mohammad Abdollahi
Nonetheless, with the expansion of CAM use, more global regions have been willing to cover these services’ insurance, creating a 22% rise in the number of WHO member states with insurance coverage for T&CM. Regarding CAM practices, acupuncture (n = 20) followed by chiropractic (n = 16), herbal medicines (n = 16), homeopathy (n = 13), osteopathy (n = 13), traditional Chinese medicine (n = 13), naturopathy (n = 11) and Ayurvedic medicine (n = 5) have the highest insurance coverage worldwide; however, the type of insurance (i.e. private or public) and the level of coverage (i.e. full or partial) differ among regions [12]. As it is quite impossible to summarize all countries’ insurance coverage data, Table 5 included only regions where at least one study was conducted on IBD patients over the past two decades [12].