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Medicine, Traditional

 
 
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Disease relevance of Medicine, Traditional

  • Extracts from certain Mexican Indian medicinal plants used in traditional indigenous medicine for the treatment of inflammations contain sequiterpene lactones (SLs), which specifically inhibit the transcription factor NF-kappa B (Bork, P. M., Schmitz, M. L., Kuhnt, M., Escher, C., and Heinrich, M. (1997) FEBS Lett. 402, 85-90) [1].
  • Curcumin (diferuloylmethane), an anti-inflammatory agent used in traditional medicine, has been shown to suppress cellular transformation, proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis through a mechanism not fully understood [2].
  • We investigated the mechanisms of action of S-petasin and S-isopetasin, from Petasites formosanus Kitamura which is used as a folk medicine for treating hypertension, tumors, and asthma in Taiwan. The tension changes of tracheal segments were isometrically recorded on a polygraph [3].
  • Previous studies showed that Pien Tze Huang, a Chinese folk medicine well known for its therapeutic activity in treating liver diseases, protected the liver against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced damage in mice [4].
  • This study revealed that crocetin, which is an important ingredient of diet in India and also used in various systems of indigenous medicine, is helpful in preventing Parkinsonism and has therapeutic potential in combating this devastating neurologic disorder [5].
 

Psychiatry related information on Medicine, Traditional

 

High impact information on Medicine, Traditional

 

Chemical compound and disease context of Medicine, Traditional

 

Biological context of Medicine, Traditional

 

Anatomical context of Medicine, Traditional

 

Associations of Medicine, Traditional with chemical compounds

  • Piceatannol, a naturally occurring analog of resveratrol, was previously identified as the active ingredient in herbal preparations in folk medicine and as an inhibitor of p72(Syk) [26].
  • Studies on the Taiwan folk medicine. VI. Studies on onitin [27].
  • In the present study, 51 South African plant species were selected on the basis of their use in traditional medicine and crude extracts were sequentially prepared from different dried plant parts using dichloromethane followed by 90% methanol [28].
  • Kaempferol 3-O-[alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl (1-->6)-beta-D-glucopyranoside] and kaempferol 3-O-[beta-D-glucopyranoside] were isolated from the leaves of Hedyosmum bonplandianum H.B.K. (Chloranthaceae), which is used in Colombian folk medicine as an analgesic [29].
  • We present a case of lipoid pneumonia from ingestion of squalene, a derivative of shark liver oil, a popular over-the-counter Asian folk remedy [30].
 

Gene context of Medicine, Traditional

  • A potential source for new 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors is undoubtedly provided by the abundance of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine [31].
  • The observed induction and inhibition of CYP enzymes by natural products in the presence of a prescribed drug has (among other reasons) led to the general acceptance that natural therapies can have adverse effects, contrary to the popular beliefs in countries where there is an active practice of ethnomedicine [32].
  • Madimadi, a Korean folk medicine, has been applied to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [33].
  • Madimadi, Korean folk medicine, blocks TNF-alpha, IL-1beta, and IL-8 production by activated human immune cells [33].
  • Thus, further phytochemical and pharmacological studies may lead to isolation and structural identification of an inhibitor of iNOS from C. tricuspidata, which has been used as a traditional medicine for curing inflammation [34].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Medicine, Traditional

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