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  1. Recinodindron heudelotii (Euphorbiaceae) is a plant used in Africa, particularly in Cameroon to treat various ailments including bacterial infections. In this study, we evaluated the e...

    Authors: Aimé Gabriel Fankam, Jules-Roger Kuiate and Victor Kuete
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:168
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  2. Malaria is an old life-threatening parasitic disease that is still affecting many people, mainly children living in sub-Saharan Africa. Availability of effective antimalarial drugs played a significant role in...

    Authors: Ramadhani Selemani Omari Nondo, Mainen Julius Moshi, Paul Erasto, Pax Jessey Masimba, Francis Machumi, Abdul Waziri Kidukuli, Matthias Heydenreich and Denis Zofou
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:167
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  3. The popularity of Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has grown considerably over the past few decades. This has been accompanied by increasing public pressure for CAM to be evidence-based. Notwithsta...

    Authors: Yasamin Veziari, Matthew J. Leach and Saravana Kumar
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:166
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  4. Jiao-Tai-Wan (JTW), composed of Rhizome Coptidis and Cortex Cinnamomi, is a classical traditional Chinese prescription for treating insomnia. Several in vivo studies have concluded that JTW could exert its therap...

    Authors: Xin Zou, Wenya Huang, Fuer Lu, Ke Fang, Dingkun Wang, Shuyong Zhao, Jiming Jia, Lijun Xu, Kaifu Wang, Nan Wang and Hui Dong
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:165
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  5. Sophorae Flos (SF) is a composite of flowers and buds of Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott and has been used in traditional Korean and Chinese medicine for the treatment of hemostasis and inflammation. Previous...

    Authors: Jeong-Mi Kim, Jung-Han Lee, Guem-San Lee, Eun-mi Noh, Hyun-Kyung Song, Dong Ryun Gu, Seong-Cheol Kim, Seoung Hoon Lee, Kang-Beom Kwon and Young-Rae Lee
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:164
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:235

  6. As the etiology of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is unclear and the treatment is still a big issue. There exists a wide range of literature about acupuncture and moxibustion (AM) for CFS in traditional Chines...

    Authors: Taiwu Wang, Cong Xu, Keli Pan and Hongyan Xiong
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:163
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  7. Polygonum chinense Linn. is a common medicinal plant in Southeast Asia and has been used in traditional medicine in Vietnam. The plant contains phytochemicals with various biological p...

    Authors: Thu Thi Tran, Meehyein Kim, Yejin Jang, Hye Won Lee, Hoa Thi Nguyen, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, Hae Woong Park, Quang Le Dang and Jin-Cheol Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:162
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  8. Alternative treatment strategies have become essential in overcoming the problem of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). In this preliminary in vitro study, the anti-tuberculosis (anti-TB) activity of...

    Authors: Karuna Gokarn and Ramprasad B. Pal
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:161
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  9. The present study investigates the effects of Vitellaria paradoxa crude extract administration on Salmonella typhimurium infected Wistar rats.

    Authors: Siméon Pierre Chegaing Fodouop, Sedric Donald Tala, Lunga Paul Keilah, Norbert Kodjio, Mefokou Didiane Yemele, Armel Herve Nwabo Kamdje, Bridget Nji-kah, Joseph Tchoumboue and Donatien Gatsing
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:160
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2023 23:40

  10. Alkaloids extracted from lotus leaves (AELL) can relax vascular smooth muscle. However, whether AELL has a similar relaxant role on airway smooth muscle (ASM) remains unknown. This study aimed to explore the r...

    Authors: Xiao Yang, Lu Xue, Qingyang Zhao, Congli Cai, Qing-Hua Liu and Jinhua Shen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:159
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  11. The treatment of burn patients is very challenging because burn injuries are one of the most severe traumas that can be experienced. The effect of music therapy on burn patients has been widely reported, but t...

    Authors: Jinyi Li, Liang Zhou and Yungui Wang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:158
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  12. Evidence indicates traditional medicine is no longer only used for the healthcare of the poor, its prevalence is also increasing in countries where allopathic medicine is predominant in the healthcare system. ...

    Authors: Sara N. AlRawi, Amal Khidir, Maha S. Elnashar, Huda A. Abdelrahim, Amal K. Killawi, Maya M. Hammoud and Michael D. Fetters
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:157
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  13. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with hyperglycemia, inflammatory disorders and abnormal lipid profiles. Several functional foods have therapeutic potential to treat chronic diseases including dia...

    Authors: Seyedeh Zeinab Taheri Rouhi, Md. Moklesur Rahman Sarker, Asmah Rahmat, Saad Ahmed Alkahtani and Fauziah Othman
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:156
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:214

  14. Complementary traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used to treat patients with cerebral palsy (CP). However, large-scale surveys examining its use in the treatment of CP and associated disorders are lac...

    Authors: Hou-Hsun Liao, Hung-Rong Yen, Chih-Hsin Muo, Yu-Chen Lee, Mei-Yao Wu, Li-Wei Chou, Mao-Feng Sun and Tung-Ti Chang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:155
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  15. Asian traditional herbal preparations are frequently considered for the contamination with undeclared toxic or hazardous substances. The aim of this study was to determine the toxic heavy metals, pesticides an...

    Authors: In-Sil Yu, Jeong-Sook Lee, Sung-Dan Kim, Yun-Hee Kim, Hae-Won Park, Hoe-Jin Ryu, Jib-Ho Lee, Jeong-Mi Lee, Kweon Jung, Cheol Na, Jin-Yong Joung and Chang-Gue Son
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:154
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  16. Women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) have average life expectancies of about 2 years, and report high levels of disease-related symptoms including pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, psychological distress,...

    Authors: James W. Carson, Kimberly M. Carson, Maren K. Olsen, Linda Sanders and Laura S. Porter
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:153
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  17. Calcium (Ca)- magnesium (Mg) imbalance is implicated in prostate cancer. Ca/Mg ratio increases or decreases with proliferation or apoptosis, respectively. The study examined whether this Ca/Mg imbalance exists...

    Authors: George Awuku Asare, Robert A. Ngala, Daniel Afriyie, Samuel Adjei, Adriana Nyarko, Yvonne Anang-Quartey, Bernice Asiedu, Derek Doku, Brodrick Y. Amoah, Kennedy Bentum, Iddi Musah and Kensese Mossanda
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:152
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  18. Hawthorn fruit (HF) is a well-known traditional medicine in China with the effects of improving digestion and regulating qi-flowing for removing blood stasis. Modern pharmacological experiments showed that HF ...

    Authors: Panpan Wu, Fajie Li, Jianyong Zhang, Bin Yang, Zhaojie Ji and Weidong Chen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:151
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  19. In adipose tissues, adipokine levels, including adiponectin and leptin, are involved in insulin sensitivity and are reciprocally induced by cold temperature stress. Thermogenic response in the extremities (han...

    Authors: Ah Yeon Park and Seongwon Cha
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:150
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  20. Authors: Wassim N. Shebaby, Mohamad A. Mroueh, Petra Boukamp, Robin I. Taleb, Kikki Bodman-Smith, Mirvat El-Sibai and Costantine F. Daher
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:149
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    The original article was published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:36

  21. We aimed to investigate whether students at German medical schools participating in elective courses on acupuncture and homeopathy differ from an unselected group of students regarding attitudes and personalit...

    Authors: Alexandra Jocham, Levente Kriston, Pascal O. Berberat, Antonius Schneider and Klaus Linde
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:148
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  22. Fainting is one of the major adverse events that can occur as a result of acupuncture treatment. However, the observation of changes in biological parameters is rarely available when fainting occurs. In this c...

    Authors: O sang Kwon, Kwang-Ho Choi, Junbeom Kim, Seong Jin Cho, Suk-Yun Kang, Ji-Young Moon and Yeon Hee Ryu
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:147
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  23. The role of plants for discovery of therapeutic potential accentuates the need to know their biological attributes. The present study aims to comprehend the biological attributes of Rhus punjabensis, an unexplore...

    Authors: Saira Tabassum, Madiha Ahmed, Bushra Mirza, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Zia, Zabta Khan Shanwari and Gul Majid Khan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:146
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  24. Iron is a vital nutrient for all cells, and malignant cells have a higher requirement for the metal due to their rapid multiplication. Bacterial siderophores can be used to reduce free ferric ion concentration...

    Authors: Karuna Gokarn, Vishwas Sarangdhar and Ramprasad B. Pal
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:145
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  25. Health care providers are often ill prepared to interact about or make acceptable conclusions on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) despite its widespread use. We explored the knowledge, attitudes, a...

    Authors: Mandreker Bahall and George Legall
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:144
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  26. Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health problem complicated by drug resistance and human immunodeficiency virus that has dramatically increased active TB. Several medicinal plants are used traditionally to treat ...

    Authors: Wubayehu Kahaliw, Abraham Aseffa, Markos Abebe, Mekonen Teferi and Ephrem Engidawork
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:143
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  27. A compound herbal formulation (POL4) has been used in the indigenous system of medicine to treat cardiometabolic disorders like diabetes and associated hypertension. POL4 and most of its constituents have not bee...

    Authors: Abdul Malik, Malik Hassan Mehmood, Hajra Channa, Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar and Anwarul-Hassan Gilani
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:142
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  28. In acupuncture practice, the most important step is to confirm the location of a sensitized acupoint which reflects a diagnosis and can be stimulated with a specialized needle to treat the disease. Abnormal sy...

    Authors: Wei He, Xiao-Yu Wang, Hong Shi, Wan-Zhu Bai, Bin Cheng, Yang-Shuai Su, Xiao-Chun Yu, Xiang-Hong Jing and Bing Zhu
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:141
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  29. The brain is secondarily harmed by pathological, physiological, and biological reactions that are caused by traumatic brain injury (TBI). Rhein, a significant composition of Rhubarb, is a well-known traditiona...

    Authors: Xia Xu, Huiying Lv, Zian Xia, Rong Fan, Chunhu Zhang, Yang Wang and Dongsheng Wang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:140
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  30. Coreopsis tinctoria is a traditional remedy for the management of various diseases including hepatitis. The hepatoprotective role of the plant is not scientifically explored till now. ...

    Authors: Jen-Chieh Tsai, Chuan-Sung Chiu, Yun-Chieh Chen, Meng-shiou Lee, Xiu-Ying Hao, Ming-Tsuen Hsieh, Chun-Pin Kao and Wen-Huang Peng
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:139
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  31. We recently reported that blueberry juice fermented (FJ) with Serratia vaccinii bacterium has antidiabetic activities both in vivo and in vitro. The purpose of this project was to elucidate the effect of FJ on gl...

    Authors: Abir Nachar, Hoda M. Eid, Melinda Vinqvist-Tymchuk, Tri Vuong, Wilhelmina Kalt, Chantal Matar and Pierre S. Haddad
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:138
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  32. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs), senescent macroprotein derivatives formed during a normal aging process and acceleratedly under diabetic conditions, play a role in atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseas...

    Authors: Yuji Ishibashi, Takanori Matsui, Fumiyuki Isami, Yumi Abe, Tatsuya Sakaguchi, Yuichiro Higashimoto and Sho-ichi Yamagishi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:137
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  33. Sedentary lifestyle, psychological stress and labor saving devices in this current society often disrupts the energy gain and expenditure balance leading to obesity. High caloric diet is associated with the hi...

    Authors: Shaffi Manchanda and Gurcharan Kaur
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:136
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  34. Currently, food supplements to improve age-related dementia are required. Therefore, we aimed to determine the effect of the combined extract of Cyperus rotundus and Zingiber officinale (CP1) on the improvement o...

    Authors: Chatchada Sutalangka and Jintanaporn Wattanathorn
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:135
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  35. Japanese physicians prescribe Kampo medicine, but Kampo education is not standardized. We surveyed training hospitals and residents to identify problems and suggest solutions to promote Kampo education during ...

    Authors: Makoto Arai, Yoshinobu Nakada and Shun-ichiro Izumi
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:134
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  36. The development of antibiotic resistant bacteria stems from a number of factors, including inappropriate use of antibiotics in human and animal health and their prolonged use as growth promoters at sub-clinica...

    Authors: Ishaku Leo Elisha, Francien S. Botha, Lyndy Joy McGaw and Jacobus Nicolaas Eloff
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:133
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  37. Modified Lingguizhugan Decoction (MLD) came from famous Chinese medicine Linggui Zhugan Decoction. The MLD is used for the treatment of metabolic syndrome in the clinical setting. Our study focuses on the comp...

    Authors: Limei Yao, Jingjing Wei, Si Shi, Kunbin Guo, Xiangyu Wang, Qi Wang, Dingsheng Chen and Weirong Li
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:132
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  39. Lianhuaqingwen Capsule (LH-C) is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) formula used to treat respiratory tract infectious diseases in Chinese. The aim of this study was to determine the antiviral activity of LH...

    Authors: Yuewen Ding, Lijuan Zeng, Runfeng Li, Qiaoyan Chen, Beixian Zhou, Qiaolian Chen, Pui leng Cheng, Wang Yutao, Jingping Zheng, Zifeng Yang and Fengxue Zhang
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:130
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  40. Hypercholesterolaemia (HC) is a major risk factor for ischemic heart disease and is also known to be a risk factor for erectile dysfunction (ED). ED caused by HC is thought to be related to HC-induced oxidativ...

    Authors: Hoon Jang, Woong Jin Bae, Su Jin Kim, Hyuk Jin Cho, Seung Mo Yuk, Dong Seok Han, Chang Shik Youn, Eun Bi Kwon, Sung Yeoun Hwang and Sae Woong Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:129
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  41. Tuberculosis is an infectious communicable disease and the causative agent of the disease has over the years developed resistance to streamline chemotherapeutic agents with dire consequences and there is a nee...

    Authors: Nancy Patience Motlalepula Komape, Victor Patrick Bagla, Prudence Kabongo-Kayoka and Peter Masoko
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:128
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  42. Medicinal herbs are used for the treatment of different ailments since antiquity. Different parts of Anethum sowa L. is used in folk medicine as a carminative for the treatment of flatulence, colic and hiccups of...

    Authors: Md Moshfekus Saleh-e-In, Nasim Sultana, Md Matiur Rahim, Md Aminul Ahsan, Md Nurul Huda Bhuiyan, Md Nur Hossain, Md Mahbubar Rahman, Sudhangshu Kumar Roy and Md Rabiul Islam
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:127
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  43. Allium hookeri (AH) is widely consumed as a vegetable and herbal medicine in southeastern Asia. AH has been reported antioxidant, antimicrobial, improvement of bone health and antidiab...

    Authors: Ja-Young Jang, Min-Jung Lee, Bo-Ram You, Jong-Sik Jin, Sung-Hyen Lee, Ye-Rang Yun and Hyun Ju Kim
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:126
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:176

  44. Only a small number of articles have investigated the relationship between mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) and biomarkers. The aim of this systematic review was to study the effect of MBIs on specific b...

    Authors: Kenji Sanada, Marta Alda Díez, Montserrat Salas Valero, María C. Pérez-Yus, Marcelo M. P. Demarzo, Jesús Montero-Marín, Mauro García-Toro and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:125
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  45. Current tuberculosis regimens have failed to combat the issue of drug resistance and ethno medicines may represent a possible source of antimycobacterial agents. Combretum species are well known in African tra...

    Authors: Tafadzwa Nyambuya, Ruvimbo Mautsa and Stanley Mukanganyama
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:124
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  46. Many plants of boreal forest of Quebec have been used by Native Americans to treat a variety of microbial infections. However, the antiviral activities of these plants have been seldom evaluated on cellular mo...

    Authors: Serge Lavoie, Isabelle Côté, André Pichette, Charles Gauthier, Michaël Ouellet, Francine Nagau-Lavoie, Vakhtang Mshvildadze and Jean Legault
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:123
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  47. Obesity is a major health concern both in developed and developing countries. The use of herbal medicines became the subject of interest for the management of obesity due to its natural origin, cost effectiven...

    Authors: Hafeedza Abdul Rahman, Najla Gooda Sahib, Nazamid Saari, Faridah Abas, Amin Ismail, Muhammad Waseem Mumtaz and Azizah Abdul Hamid
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:122
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  48. Zuo-Jin-Wan (ZJW), a two-herb formula consisting of Coptis chinensis (CC) and Evodia rutaecarpa (ER), is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of cancers. However, the efficacies and mec...

    Authors: Shun-Ting Chou, Chien-Yun Hsiang, Hsin-Yi Lo, Hui-Fen Huang, Ming-Tsung Lai, Ching-Liang Hsieh, Su-Yin Chiang and Tin-Yun Ho
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:121
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  50. This study explored Bacopa monnieri, a medicinal Ayurvedic herb, as a cardioprotectant against ischemia/reperfusion injury using cardiac function and coronary flow as end-points.

    Authors: Sirintorn Srimachai, Sylvie Devaux, Celine Demougeot, Sarawut Kumphune, Nina D. Ullrich, Ernst Niggli, Kornkanok Ingkaninan, Natakorn Kamkaew, C. Norman Scholfield, Sompol Tapechum and Krongkarn Chootip
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2017 17:117
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