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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Evidence showed that Tai Chi may have beneficial effects among hypertensive individuals, although the results are not convincing. We aim to conduct a high-quality clinical trial with 24-h BP measurement to pro...

    Authors: Yuxi Li, Dongling Zhong, Chao Dong, Lihong Shi, Yaling Zheng, Yongguo Liu, Qiaoqin Li, Hui Zheng, Juan Li, Tianyu Liu and Rongjiang Jin

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:23

    Content type: Study protocol

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Cancer is a multifactorial disease caused by uncontrolled proliferation of cells. About 50–80% of cancer patients develop cachexia, a complex metabolic syndrome associated with an increase of mortality and mor...

    Authors: Henrique Jorge Novaes Morgan, Aislan Quintiliano Delgado, Luiz Leonardo Saldanha, Nathalia Aparecida De Paula Camaforte, Anne Lígia Dokkedal and José Roberto Bosqueiro

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:20

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  9. During the last few decades, patients worldwide have been interested in using alternative medicine in treating diseases to avoid the increased side effects of chemical medications. Green coffee is unroasted co...

    Authors: Haddad A. El Rabey, Samar M. Rezk, Mohamed I. Sakran, Ghena M. Mohammed, Omar Bahattab, Maha J. Balgoon, Mohamed A. Elbakry and Nadia Bakry

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:19

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  10. Norwogonin is a natural flavone with three phenolic hydroxyl groups in skeletal structure and has excellent antioxidant activity. However, the neuroprotective effect of norwogonin remains unclear. Here, we inv...

    Authors: Linlin Jing, Rongmin Gao, Jie Zhang, Dongmei Zhang, Jin Shao, Zhengping Jia and Huiping Ma

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:18

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. About 70% of Ghanaians depend on traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) practices for primary healthcare needs. It was therefore integrated into mainstream healthcare delivery system by the...

    Authors: Angela Kenu, Ernest Kenu, Delia Akosua Bandoh and Moses Aikins

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:14

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  15. Alcohol abuse is a major problem worldwide and it affects people’s health and economy. There is a relapse in alcohol intake due to alcohol withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal anxiety-like behavior is a symptom that...

    Authors: Lalit Sharma, Aditi Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar Dash, Gopal Singh Bisht and Girdhari Lal Gupta

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:13

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  16. Activation of renal fibroblasts is a critical mechanism in the process of renal fibrosis. As a commonly used herbal formula, Shenkang (SK) has been found to attenuate renal fibrosis and renal parenchyma destru...

    Authors: Tianyu Qin, You Wu, Tonghua Liu and Lili Wu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:12

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  17. The traditional Chinese medicine formula Si-Jun-Zi-Tang (SJZT) has a long history of application in the treatment of functional dyspepsia (non-ulcer dyspepsia, FD)-like symptoms. SJZT-based therapies have been cl...

    Authors: Yaping Wang, Bin Liu, Xiuqiong Fu, Tiejun Tong and Zhiling Yu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:11

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  18. Curcumin has been demonstrated to exert anti-oxidant, anti-fibrotic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer activities. This study was conducted to observe the effect and inner mechanism of curcumin in rats with r...

    Authors: Wei Li, Liangjun Jiang, Xianzhou Lu, Xianrong Liu and Mingjiong Ling

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:10

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  19. Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders, affects over 70 million people worldwide. Rhynchophylline displays a wide variety of pharmacologic actives. However, the pharmacologic effects of rhynch...

    Authors: Hua Geng, Xuqin Chen and Chengzhong Wang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:9

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  20. The benefits of qigong for systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) reduction have been noted in previously published systematic reviews; however, the data on its effectiveness has been at best scarce. We ai...

    Authors: Siew Mooi Ching, Naidu Ragubathi Mokshashri, Maharajan Mari Kannan, Kai Wei Lee, Nurin Amalina Sallahuddin, Jun Xun Ng, Jie Lin Wong, Navin Kumar Devaraj, Fan Kee Hoo, Yee Shen Loo and Sajesh K. Veettil

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:8

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  21. Stroke causes lasting brain damage that has numerous impacts on the survivor’s physical, psychosocial, and spiritual well-being. Young survivors (< 65 years old) tend to suffer more because of their longer ove...

    Authors: Caitlin Kar Pui Chan, Temmy Lee Ting Lo, Adrian Ho Yin Wan, Pamela Pui Yu Leung, Marco Yiu Chung Pang and Rainbow Tin Hung Ho

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:7

    Content type: Study protocol

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  22. Germacrone (GM) is a terpenoid compound which is reported to have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects. However, its role in treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains largely unknown.

    Authors: Sujing Zhuang, Baogui Liu, Shifeng Guo, Yanzhong Xue, Lin Wu, Shiqi Liu, Chunling Zhang and Xiuyan Ni

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:6

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  23. Correspondence from Yu et al. identify methodological issues with the systematic review of manual therapy for pediatric manuscript. Like any research study, limitations are important for readers to keep in con...

    Authors: Katherine A. Pohlman, Kristian Anderson, Beth Carleo and Brian Gleberzon

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:5

    Content type: Correspondence

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    The original article was published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:4

  24. Prevost et al. published a systematic review evaluating the use of manual therapy for clinical conditions in the pediatric population in 2019. However, several methodological flaws in the conduct of the review...

    Authors: Hainan Yu, Heather Shearer, Anne Taylor-Vaisey, Silvano Mior, Leslie Verville, Gaelan Connell and Pierre Côté

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:4

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    The Correspondence to this article has been published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:5

  25. Generally, complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) are accepted methods of treatment by patients with various types of conditions. Their use is becoming especially prevalent among patients with eye probl...

    Authors: Dania Jaber, Rafat Abu Ghannam, Waleed Rashed, Mohammad Shehadeh and Sa’ed H. Zyoud

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:3

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  26. Patients with lymphoedema are at high risk of getting bacterial and fungal wound infections leading to acute inflammatory episodes associated with cellulitis and erysipelas. In Ethiopia, wound infections are t...

    Authors: Dereje Nigussie, Gail Davey, Belete Adefris Legesse, Abebaw Fekadu and Eyasu Makonnen

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:2

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  27. Hypercholesterolemia has posed a serious threat of heart diseases and stroke worldwide. Xanthine oxidase (XO), the rate-limiting enzyme in uric acid biosynthesis, is regarded as the root of reactive oxygen spe...

    Authors: Rishab Marahatha, Saroj Basnet, Bibek Raj Bhattarai, Prakriti Budhathoki, Babita Aryal, Bikash Adhikari, Ganesh Lamichhane, Darbin Kumar Poudel and Niranjan Parajuli

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:1

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  28. Rhinoviruses and influenza viruses cause millions of acute respiratory infections annually. Symptoms of mild acute respiratory infections are commonly treated with over-the-counter products like ambroxol, brom...

    Authors: Christin Walther, Kristin Döring and Michaela Schmidtke

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:380

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  29. Aloe’s reported bioactivities (anticancer, anti-inflammatory and wound healing) suggest they might inhibit a subgroup of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) called gelatinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9). The goal of the pres...

    Authors: Ana Lima, Paula Batista-Santos, Eduarda Veríssimo, Patrícia Rebelo and Ricardo Boavida Ferreira

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:379

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  30. Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a main cause of the increased morbidity in diabetic patients, no effective treatment is available so far. Polydatin, a resveratrol glucoside isolated from the Polygonum cuspidatum, was ...

    Authors: Ying-Ying Tan, Lei-Xin Chen, Ling Fang and Qi Zhang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:378

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  31. Previous studies have found that Hugan Qingzhi tablet (HQT) has significant lipid-lowering and antioxidant effects on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Moreover, the results of proteomic analysis conf...

    Authors: Miaoting Yang, Zhijuan Chen, Shijian Xiang, Fan Xia, Waijiao Tang, Xiaorui Yao and Benjie Zhou

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:377

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  32. Obesity and its associated diseases have become a major world-wide health problem. Purple-leaf Tea (Camellia sinensis L.) (PLT), that is rich of anthocyanins, has been shown to have preventive effects on obesity ...

    Authors: Yu-Chun Lin, Hsu-Feng Lu, Jui-Chieh Chen, Hsiu-Chen Huang, Yu-Hsin Chen, Yen-Shuo Su, Chien-Yi Tung and Cheng Huang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:376

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  33. Annona muricata L. was identified as a popular medicinal plant in treatment regimens among cancer patients in Jamaica by a previously conducted structured questionnaire. Ethnomedically used plant parts, were exam...

    Authors: Kimberley Foster, Omolola Oyenihi, Sunelle Rademan, Joseph Erhabor, Motlalepula Matsabisa, James Barker, Moses K. Langat, Amy Kendal-Smith, Helen Asemota and Rupika Delgoda

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:375

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  34. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the Acorus tatarinowii Schott [Shi Chang Pu (SCP)] extract administered at the start of 2 h of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo), followed by 3 d of reperfusion, ...

    Authors: Yu-Chen Lee, Shung-Te Kao and Chin-Yi Cheng

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:374

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  35. 4-Hydroxyisoleucine (4-HIL) is an active ingredient extracted from Trigonella foenum-graecum L., a Chinese traditional herbal medicine, which exerts the efficacy of anti-obesity and anti-diabetes. We previously r...

    Authors: Cong Zhou, Rui Chen, Feng Gao, Jiaoyue Zhang and Furong Lu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:373

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  36. The currently available treatments for colorectal cancer (CRC) are often associated with serious side-effects. Therefore, the development of a novel nutraceutical agent may provide an alternative complementary...

    Authors: Abilasha G. Jayathilake, Margaret F. Veale, Rodney Brain Luwor, Kulmira Nurgali and Xiao Q. Su

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:372

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  37. The water extract of Quercuse infectoria galls (QIG) is the active ingredient of Uyghur medicine Xipayi Kui Jie’an (KJA) which has promising therapeutic effects on Ulcerative Colitis (UC) as an alternative med...

    Authors: Hui Zhang, Yongbing Wang, Jiayang Liu, Kudelaidi Kuerban, Jian Li, Mubarak Iminjan and Li Ye

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:371

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  38. Insulin resistance could be associated with the development of Alzheimer disease (AD). The neuropathological hallmarks of AD are beta amyloid (Aβ) produced from sequential cleavage initiated by β-secretase and...

    Authors: Chien-Ning Huang, Chau-Jong Wang, Chih-Li Lin, Hsin-Hua Li, An-Ting Yen and Chiung-Huei Peng

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:370

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  39. Liquidambaris Fructus is the infructescences of Liquidambar formosana Hance and it has been used to treat some breast disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the previous study we found the anti-breast cancer...

    Authors: Ping Qian, Xiao-Ting Mu, Bing Su, Lu Gao and Dong-Fang Zhang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:369

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  40. Polyherbal formula (PHF) contains extract of Sauropus androgynous (L.) Merr., Trigonella foenum-graceum L., and Moringa oleifera Lam. considered to induce galactagogue activity. This research aimed to evaluate th...

    Authors: Mustofa, Fara Silvia Yuliani, Setyo Purwono, Ahmad Hamim Sadewa, Ema Damayanti and Didik Setyo Heriyanto

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:368

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  41. This study aimed to investigate the mechanism of action of Panax notoginoside (PNS) against lung cancer and inhibition of lung cancer cell proliferation by the drug at different concentrations in a mouse model, c...

    Authors: Jizhou Zhang, Bin Zhou, Song Jin, Zhiyou Huang, Bidong Ma, Qiqi Shao and Wenzong Zhu

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:367

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  42. The incidence and mortality of breast cancer in women is increasing worldwide. Breast cancer contains a subpopulation of cells known as cancer stem cells (CSCs). The CSCs are believed to be responsible for che...

    Authors: Nigatu Tuasha, Daniel Seifu, Endalamaw Gadisa, Beyene Petros and Stina Oredsson

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:366

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  43. Momordica cochinchinensis (Cucurbitaceae) is a nutritionally and medicinally important fruit restricted to South East Asia with diverse morphological and genetic variations but there is limited information on its...

    Authors: Dilani Wimalasiri, Chaitali Dekiwadia, Siat Yee Fong, Terrence J. Piva and Tien Huynh

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:365

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  44. Gandi capsule is a traditional Chinese herbal formula used to promote blood circulation and removing blood stasis in clinical. Our previous study has shown that it reduces proteinuria with routine treatment in...

    Authors: Qiqiang Zhang, Qing Ye, Xiaohui Huang, Ajing Xu, Yan Liu, Jia Qi, Hai Zhang and Jian Zhang

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:362

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  45. Identifying topics and assessing the reporting quality of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) cohort studies.

    Authors: Yuting Duan, Zhirui Xu, Jingjing Deng, Yanjia Lin, Yan Zheng, Juexuan Chen, Xiaoyu Tang, Xuan Zhang, Chunzhi Tang, Jiangxia Miao and Zhaoxiang Bian

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:361

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  46. Dental caries and periodontal disease are the most common chronic infectious oral diseases in the world. Acacia nilotica was commonly known in Sudan as Garad or Sunt has a wide range of medicinal uses. In the pre...

    Authors: Ali Mahmoud Muddathir, Ebtihal Abdalla M. Mohieldin and Tohru Mitsunaga

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:360

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  47. Mangosteen, Garciniam angostana L., is a juicy fruit commonly found in Thailand. The rinds of Garciniam angostana L.have been used as a traditional medicine for the treatment of trauma, diarrhea and skin infec...

    Authors: P. Rukthong, N. Sereesongsang, T. Kulsirirat, N. Boonnak and K. Sathirakul

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:359

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  48. Colon cancer is the third most deadly and one of the most diagnosed diseases in the world. Although routine screening and early detection during last decades has improved the survival, colon cancer still claim...

    Authors: Vinod kumar Nelson, Nalini Kanta Sahoo, Madhusmita Sahu, Hari hara Sudhan, Chitikela P. Pullaiah and Kanuri Sai Muralikrishna

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:355

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  49. An external herbal dispensary (EHD) is a type of pharmacy that provides various types of personalized herbal medicines (PHMs) to other traditional Korean medicine (TKM) institutions. Such dispensaries were leg...

    Authors: Soo-Hyun Sung, Ji-Eun Han, Ji-Yeon Ryu, Angela Dong-Min Sung, Jung-Youn Park, In-Hyuk Ha, Kyeong Han Kim, Jang-Kyung Park and Byung-Cheul Shin

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:354

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  50. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and responsible for a global pandemic. Despite there being no known vaccines or medi...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng

    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:353

    Content type: Research article

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