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  1. Despite the growing conventional healthcare coverage in Eritrea, traditional medicine (TM) remains an essential source of healthcare service to the population. This study, therefore, aims at exploring the atti...

    Authors: Sirak Tesfamariam, Filmon Tesfai, Lemlem Hussien, Yonatan Ateshim, Dawit Yemane, Mulugeta Russom, Hagos Ahmed, Iyassu Bahta, Solyana Ngusbrhan Kidane, Josephine Namboze and Ossy Muganga Julius Kasilo

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:68

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  2. This descriptive study provides the first examination of global naturopathic education, regulation and practice frameworks that have potential to constrain or assist professional formation and integration in g...

    Authors: J. M. Dunn, A. E. Steel, J. Adams, I. Lloyd, N. De Groot, T. Hausser and J. Wardle

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:67

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  3. High glucose (HG)-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) overproduction impairs angiogenesis that is one pivotal factor of wound healing process. Angiogenesis impairment induces delayed wound healing, whereby i...

    Authors: Chatchai Nensat, Worawat Songjang, Rutaiwan Tohtong, Tuangporn Suthiphongchai, Suchada Phimsen, Panthip Rattanasinganchan, Pornphimon Metheenukul, Sarawut Kumphune and Arunya Jiraviriyakul

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:66

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  4. The new paradigm of intercultural policies focuses on rethinking the common public culture. In Ecuador, the “Buen Vivir” plan seeks to incorporate the ancestral medical knowledge, experience and beliefs of tradit...

    Authors: Estefanía Bautista-Valarezo, Víctor Duque, Veronique Verhoeven, Jorge Mejia Chicaiza, Kristin Hendrickx, Ruth Maldonado-Rengel and Nele R.M. Michels

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:65

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  5. The disparity of harvesting locations can influence the chemical composition of a plant species, which could affect its quality and bioactivity. Terminalia albida is widely used in traditional Guinean medicine wh...

    Authors: Aissata Camara, Mohamed Haddad, Mohamed Sahar Traore, Florence Chapeland-Leclerc, Gwenaël Ruprich-Robert, Isabelle Fourasté, Mamadou Aliou Balde, Jade Royo, Melissa Parny, Philippe Batigne, Marie Salon, Agnès Coste, Aliou Mamadou Balde and Agnès Aubouy

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:64

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  6. The prevalence of CAM use is increasing. This integrative review investigated New Zealand healthcare professionals’ practice of, attitudes toward, and knowledge about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

    Authors: Lizhou Liu, Yong Tang, G. David Baxter, Haiyan Yin and Steve Tumilty

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:63

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  7. Euphorbia helioscopia, conventionally known as sun spurge, has been used as a traditional medicine to treat different diseases owing to its reported antitumor, antiviral and antioxidant activities.

    Authors: Imtiaz Mustafa, Muhammad Naeem Faisal, Ghulam Hussain, Humaira Muzaffar, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Umar Ijaz, Muhammad Umar Sohail, Arslan Iftikhar, Arslan Shaukat and Haseeb Anwar

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:62

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  8. Atractylodes lancea (Thunb) DC. (AL) and bioactive compounds β-eudesmol and atractylodin have been demonstrated in the in vitro and in vivo studies for their potential clinical use in cholangiocarcinoma. The stud...

    Authors: Inthuon Kulma, Luxsana Panrit, Tullayakorn Plengsuriyakarn, Wanna Chaijaroenkul, Siriprapa Warathumpitak and Kesara Na-Bangchang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:61

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  9. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Misbahuddin Rafeeq, Hussam Aly Sayed Murad, Hossam Mohammed Abdallah and Ali M. El-Halawany

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:60

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:28

  10. Deer Sinew serves as a medicinal food, and has been used for treating skeletal diseases, especially bone diseases in a long history. Thus, it could become an alternative option for the prevention and therapeut...

    Authors: Zhenwei Zhou, Daqing Zhao, Pengcheng Zhang, Mei Zhang, Xiangyang Leng and Baojin Yao

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:59

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  12. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of nanoemulsion containing peppermint and rosemary essential oils in rats with osteoarthritis (OA).

    Authors: Mojgan Mohammadifar, Mohammad Hossein Aarabi, Fatemeh Aghighi, Maryam Kazemi, Zarichehr Vakili, Mohammad Reza Memarzadeh and Sayyed Alireza Talaei

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:57

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  13. Childbearing women have been using various herbs to assist with pregnancy, labour and birth for centuries. One of the most common is raspberry leaf. The evidence base for the use of raspberry leaf is however u...

    Authors: Rebekah Bowman, Jan Taylor, Sally Muggleton and Deborah Davis

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:56

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  14. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most prevalent endocrinopathies in women during the reproductive age. Herbal medicines are used increasingly alone or in supplement with chemical medicines for th...

    Authors: E. Bandariyan, A. Mogheiseh and A. Ahmadi

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:55

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  15. Sleep disorders encompass a wide range of conditions which affect the quality and quantity of sleep, with insomnia being a specific type of sleep disorder of focus in this review. Complementary and alternative...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng and Nandana D. Parakh

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:54

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  16. Distraction osteogenesis (DO) is an effective treatment in craniomaxillofacial surgery. However, the issue of sufficient blood supply at the regeneration tissue has limited its wide application. Panax notoginseng...

    Authors: Peiqi Zhu, Weidong Jiang, Shixi He, Tao Zhang, Fengchun Liao, Di Liu, Xiaoning An, Xuanping Huang and Nuo Zhou

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:53

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  17. Ursolic acid (UA) is an anti-cancer herbal compound. In the present study, we observed the effects of UA on anchorage-dependent and -independent growth of human colorectal cancer (CRC) RKO cells.

    Authors: Jia-Lu Zheng, Shuang-Shuang Wang, Ke-Ping Shen, Lei Chen, Xiao Peng, Jin-Fang Chen, Hong-Mei An and Bing Hu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:52

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  18. Chlorella vulgaris is a microalga potentially used for pharmaceutical, animal feed, food supplement, aquaculture and cosmetics. The current study aims to study the antioxidant and prooxidant effect of Chlorella v...

    Authors: Eman A. El-fayoumy, Sanaa M. M. Shanab, Hanan S. Gaballa, Mohamed A. Tantawy and Emad A. Shalaby

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:51

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  19. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and its impact on antiepileptic drug (AED) adherence among patients with epilepsy.

    Authors: Muhammad Junaid Farrukh, Mohd Makmor-Bakry, Ernieda Hatah and Tan Hui Jan

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:50

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  20. Otostegia integrifolia Benth. (Lamiaceae) leaves are used to treat hypertension in Ethiopian folk medicine. However, the claim has so far not been investigated scientifically. Thus, the objective of this study wa...

    Authors: Abel Degu, Abiy Abebe and Ephrem Engidawork

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:49

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  21. Pelargonium sidoides DC (Geraniaceae) root extract, EPs®7630 or “Kaloba®”, is a widely used herbal remedy for respiratory infections, with some evidence of effectiveness for acute bronchitis. However, it is not y...

    Authors: Merlin Willcox, Catherine Simpson, Sam Wilding, Beth Stuart, Dia Soilemezi, Amy Whitehead, Alannah Morgan, Emma Wrixon, Shihua Zhu, Guiqing Yao, Fran Webley, Ruiyang Yan, Jennifer Bostock, Margaret Bell, Gareth Griffiths, Geraldine Leydon…

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:48

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  22. The frequent incidence of fungal infection and widespread of antibiotic resistance are emergent concerns in public health. Hence, there is a need to harness the potential of natural bioactive compounds from pl...

    Authors: Clement Olusola Ogidi, Ayokunbi Elizabeth Ojo, Oluwatayo Benjamin Ajayi-Moses, Oluwatoyin Modupe Aladejana, Oluwakemi Abike Thonda and Bamidele Juliet Akinyele

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:47

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  23. Physicians who include complementary medicine in their practice are thought to have an understanding of health and disease different from that of colleagues practicing conventional medicine. The aim of this st...

    Authors: N. Mittring-Junghans, C. Holmberg, C. M. Witt and M. Teut

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:46

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  24. Solanum nigrum L. decoction has been used as a folklore medicine in China to prevent the postoperative recurrence of bladder cancer (BC). However, there are no previous pharmacological studies on the protective m...

    Authors: Yang Dong, Lin Hao, Kun Fang, Xiao-xiao Han, Hui Yu, Jian-jun Zhang, Long-jun Cai, Tao Fan, Wen-da Zhang, Kun Pang, Wei-ming Ma, Xi-tao Wang and Cong-hui Han

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:45

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  25. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a liver disease caused by a nonalcoholic fatty liver, is increasing in incidence worldwide. Owing to the complexity of its pathogenic mechanisms, there are no therapeutic a...

    Authors: Yang-Ju Son, Da Seul Jung, Ji Min Shin, Myungsuk Kim, Gyhye Yoo and Chu Won Nho

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:44

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  26. Periodontitis is a chronic infection initiated by oral bacterial and their virulence factors, yet the severity of periodontitis is largely determined by the dysregulated host immuno-inflammatory response. Baic...

    Authors: Manman Ren, Ya Zhao, Zhiqi He, Jian Lin, Chuchu Xu, Fen Liu, Rongdang Hu, Hui Deng and Yi Wang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:43

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  27. The sentence of “Danshen (Salvia Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma) and Siwu decoction are similar in function” was first recorded in an ancient Chinese medical book “Fu Ren Ming Li Lun”. This theory has far-reac...

    Authors: Yang Li, Li Qiao, Cong Chen, Zhenguo Wang and Xianjun Fu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:42

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  28. The latest coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, discovered in China and rapidly spread Worldwide. COVID-19 affected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands worldwide. There are many ongoing studies investigatin...

    Authors: Aslı Deniz Aydın, Faruk Altınel, Hüseyin Erdoğmuş and Çağdaş Devrim Son

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:41

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  29. There is preliminary evidence to suggest curcumin can alleviate digestive symptoms in adults with self-reported digestive complaints and irritable bowel syndrome. However, in all these trials, curcumin was use...

    Authors: Adrian L. Lopresti, Stephen J. Smith, Alethea Rea and Shavon Michel

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:40

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  30. Curcumin, a natural polyphenolic substance, has been known for more than two millennia as having strong anti-inflammatory activity towards multiple ailments, including arthritis. The main drawback of curcumin ...

    Authors: Ieva Rinkunaite, Egidijus Simoliunas, Milda Alksne, Dominyka Dapkute and Virginija Bukelskiene

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:39

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  31. Tripterygium hypoglaucum Hutch (THH) both has prominent efficacy and unwarranted toxicity in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Nevertheless, its pharmacological and toxicological profiles still remain to be e...

    Authors: Dan Zhang, Yizhu Dong, Jintao Lv, Bing Zhang, Xiaomeng Zhang and Zhijian Lin

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:38

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  32. Considering the advantages of using medicinal herbs as supplementary treatments to sensitize conventional anti-cancer drugs, studying functional mechanisms and regulatory effects of Echinacea purpurea (as a non-c...

    Authors: Fatemeh Hosami, Azadeh Manayi, Vahid Salimi, Farshad Khodakhah, Mitra Nourbakhsh, Britt Nakstad and Masoumeh Tavakoli-Yaraki

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:37

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  33. During the fresh cycles of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, a disturbance in the reproductive endocrine environment following controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) is closely related to compromi...

    Authors: Yufan Song, Fanru Zhou, Xiujuan Tan, Xia Liu, Jiahui Ding, Chu Zhang, Fan Li, Wenxin Zhu, Wenwen Ma, Runan Hu and Mingmin Zhang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:36

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  34. Water-soluble, but not lipid-soluble, extract of Dicranopteris linearis leaves has been proven to possess hepatoprotective activity. The present study aimed to validate the hepatoprotective and antioxidant activi...

    Authors: Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria, Adibah Sahmat, Azfar Hizami Azmi, Amal Syahirah Nur Zainol, Maizatul Hasyima Omar, Tavamani Balan, Lilis Sulistyorini, R. Azizah and Muhammad Nazrul Hakim Abdullah

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:35

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  35. Panax notoginseng is one of the most valuable traditional Chinese medicines. Polysaccharides in P. notoginseng has been shown to significantly reduce the incidence of human diseases. However the application of fe...

    Authors: Shiquan You, Xiuqin Shi, Dan Yu, Dan Zhao, Quan An, Dongdong Wang, Jiachan Zhang, Meng Li and Changtao Wang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:34

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  36. Microcirculatory disturbance is closely associated with multiple diseases such as ischemic and septic stroke. Luteolin (3,4,5,7-tetrahydroxyflavone) is a vascular protective flavonoid present in several dietar...

    Authors: Jie Su, Han-Ting Xu, Jing-Jing Yu, Mei-Qiu Yan, Ting Wang, Ya-Jun Wu, Bo Li, Wen-Jie Lu, Chuan Wang, Shan-Shan Lei, Si-Min Chen, Su-Hong Chen and Gui-Yuan Lv

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:33

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  37. The regeneration of nucleus pulposus (NP) cells is an effective method to prevent intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). In this study, we investigated the role of Asperosaponin VI (ASA VI), isolated from a ...

    Authors: Yong-tao Niu, Lin Xie, Rong-Rong Deng and Xiao-yu Zhang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:32

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  38. Inflammation is the main key role in developing chronic diseases including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, arthritis, and neurodegenerative diseases which possess a huge challenge for treatment. Wit...

    Authors: Yazan Ranneh, Abdah Md Akim, Hasiah Ab. Hamid, Huzwah Khazaai, Abdulmannan Fadel, Zainul Amiruddin Zakaria, Mohammed Albujja and Mohd Fadzelly Abu Bakar

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:30

    Content type: Review

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  39. The dysfunction of the thyroid gland is a common medical condition. Nowadays, patients frequently use medicinal herbs as complementary or alternative options to conventional drug treatments. These patients may...

    Authors: Lubov V. Krepkova, Valentina V. Bortnikova, Aleksandra N. Babenko, Praskovya G. Mizina, Vladimir A. Mkhitarov, Kathleen M. Job, Catherine M. Sherwin and Elena Y. Enioutina

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:31

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  40. Little is known about factors associated with a clinically relevant reduction in menopausal symptoms through a brief acupuncture approach for women with moderate-to-severe menopausal symptoms.

    Authors: Frans Boch Waldorff, Christine Winther Bang, Volkert Siersma, John Brodersen and Kamma Sundgaard Lund

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:29

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  41. Ulcerative colitis is a gut inflammatory disorder due to altered immune response to gut microbiome, with interplay of environmental and genetic factors. TNF-α activates inflammatory response through a cascade ...

    Authors: Misbahuddin Rafeeq, Hussam Aly Sayed Murad, Hossam Mohammed Abdallah and Ali M. El-Halawany

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:28

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:60

  42. New agents for developing alternative or complementary medicine to treat the hepatitis C virus (HCV) are still needed due to high rates of HCV infection globally and the current limitations of available treatm...

    Authors: Aty Widyawaruyanti, Mulyadi Tanjung, Adita Ayu Permanasari, Ratih Saputri, Lidya Tumewu, Myrna Adianti, Chie Aoki-Utsubo, Hak Hotta, Achmad Fuad Hafid and Tutik Sri Wahyuni

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:27

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  43. Pre-administration of probiotic Lactobacilli attenuates ethanol-induced gastric mucosal injury (GMI). The underpinning mechanisms remain to be elucidated. We speculated that lactate, the main metabolite of Lactob...

    Authors: Yingpeng Huang, Jiali Zhang, Renjie Dong, Xiawei Ji, Yusha Jiang, Jianke Cen, Zhihuai Bai, Kairui Hong, Huihui Li, Jiajing Chen, Jinhui Zhou, Fanyu Qian, Fangyan Wang, Yue Qu and Yan Zhou

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:26

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  44. Fucoidan, a water-soluble polysaccharide, exerts anticoagulant and antiviral functions. It was recently reported that fucoidan also exerts an antitumor function. Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers i...

    Authors: Xiaohan Chen, Li Sun, Xiaojuan Wei, Haijun Lu, Ye Tan, Zhanyi Sun and Jinju Jiang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:25

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  45. Wrist-ankle acupuncture (WAA) as a kind of micro acupuncture therapy has been used to management cancer pain, however, the effects of WAA on cancer pain were controversial in the current studies. Therefore, th...

    Authors: Bei Dong, Lu Lin, Qiuyun Chen, Yishu Qi, Fen Wang, Keyan Qian and Li Tian

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:24

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  46. Nymphaea lotus L. (N. lotus) is an aquatic plant with anecdotal reports suggesting its use in the traditional management of cancer. However, there is a paucity of data on the antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and cy...

    Authors: Benoit Banga N’guessan, Adwoa Dede Asiamah, Nana Kwame Arthur, Samuel Frimpong-Manso, Patrick Amoateng, Seth Kwabena Amponsah, Kennedy Edem Kukuia, Joseph Adusei Sarkodie, Kwabena Frimpong-Manso Opuni, Isaac Julius Asiedu-Gyekye and Regina Appiah-Opong

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:22

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  47. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by airway remodeling and inflammation. Rhynchophylline is a kind of indole alkaloid isolated from Uncaria rhynchophylla. Here we investigated the effect of r...

    Authors: Hui Li, Qianyu Bi, Hongxia Cui, Chuanfeng Lv and Meng Wang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:21

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  48. Drugs used for the treatment of diseases associated with chronic inflammation, such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis have the potential to cause undesirable side-effects, which might result in patients endin...

    Authors: Nimsi Campos-Xolalpa, Ángel Josabad Alonso-Castro, Elizabeth Ortíz-Sanchez, Juan Ramon Zapata-Morales, Marco Martin González-Chávez and Salud Pérez

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:17

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  49. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has gained increasing acceptance and popularity by the global community. The current study aimed to investigate self-reported evaluations of learning TCM and opinions about T...

    Authors: Fan Qu, Qing Zhang, Minchen Dai, Yijing He, Jiaqi Wu, Xian Zhang, Yuhang Zhu, Ying’er Gu, Fangfang Wang and Xiangrong Xu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:16

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  50. Non-small cell lung cancer is a common type of lung cancer. Piperlongumine (PL), which is extracted from the roots of piperaceae plant, long pepper, and peppercorn, is an alkaloid amide that inhibits tumor gro...

    Authors: Xinhua Lu, Chenyang Xu, Zhexuan Xu, Chunya Lu, Rui Yang, Furui Zhang and Guojun Zhang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:15

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