Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Treatment Techniques for COVID-19
Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang in Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
Modern pharmacological studies have proven that artemisia argyi contains a variety of volatile oils, with disease-resistant microorganisms, and have sedative, antitussive, expectorant, antiasthma, antiallergic, and other effects. Therefore, in Shen Jiu Jing Lun, it is said, “taking moxa as a wick, can pass Shierjing, into Sanyin, regulate breath and blood, in order to treat all diseases easily”.
COVID-19 Pandemic and Traditional Chinese Medicines
Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga in The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
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].
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).
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.
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).
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