Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) are known to cause oxidative damage cells macromolecules. Intake of antioxidant-rich fruits vegetables has been touted as a strategy mitigate stress, but this is not always accommodated in modern diets. Augmentation with herbal supplements may be preventive measure against the negative effects ROS/RNS. In study, we verify compare antioxidant claims...

Placebo response shares phenomenology and likely overlaps with substrates of cognition and personality. However, inconsistent findings abound regarding the potential link between suggestibility and responding to placebos. Here we directly probe whether suggestibility of the hypnotic type influences placebo response. Fifty healthy undergraduates underwent a standard measure of hypnotic suggestib...

BACKGROUND Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is considered a major public health issue causing chronic disability worldwide with the increasing number of aging people. In China and increasingly worldwide, many sufferers with knee OA are using complementary and alternative medicine including herbal drug, herbal patch, acupuncture and Tuina etc., to alleviate their symptoms. However, evidence gathered fro...

What is herbal therapy? Herbs are plants that contain ingredients with active therapeutic properties. These active ingredients may be present in the whole plant or only in a specific part. Other parts of the same plant, or other plants in the same genus may have no activity or may in fact be toxic. An herb may be used in various forms, including teas, granular extracts (Chinese medicine), fresh...

Introduction: Given the growing prevalence of obesity in industrial societies including Iran, there is a growing demand for herbal weight loss drugs. Taking into account the heavy advertisements to sell the capsule as an herbal medicine, the present study was conducted in 2012 to determine the effective substance of prevalent super slim weight loss capsule. Methodology: ­Twenty-six super slim c...

“Case Report: Potential Arsenic Toxicosis Secondary to Herbal Kelp Supplement” by Amster et al. (2007) is fundamentally flawed, both scientifically and with regard to the regulation of dietary supplements. Amster et al. (2007) claimed to have found “detectable levels of arsenic in eight of the nine kelp herbal supplements, ranging from 1.59 ppm to 65.5 ppm by dry weight (1.59, 2.28, 9.55, 9.97,...

To elucidate the role of Fuzheng Huayu Capsule, a herbal formula, in the prevention of esophageal variceal bleeding in cirrhotic patients, a multicenter randomized and placebo-controlled trial was carried out. One hundred forty-six cirrhotic patients with esophageal varices were enrolled to compare the probability of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and survival between Fuzheng Huayu Capsule gro...

This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study among Malay women admitted in the antenatal and postnatal ward to determine the prevalence and use of herbal medicines during pregnancy and elemental analysis in the most popular herbs. A total of 460 women were surveyed. Herbal medicine use during pregnancy was 34.3%, while 73% utilized herbal medicines during labor, because of a belief that it may ...

DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202200045 The cover picture shows the strategy to comprehensively analyze bioactivity of complex herbal prescriptions via peak-by-peak cutting and knock-out chromatography. In this strategy, is like a pair scissors obtain each peak for assay, while chromatography tweezers pick out target peaks contribution assessment. An prescription Qiliqiangxin capsule, which consists 11 tra...

We consider a three period economy where traders trade assets before and after the arrival of a signal (or data). We say that a trader has rationalizable beliefs if i) she is an SEU maximizer and if ii) her likelihood ratio of the data relative to various states of the world is equal to the objective likelihood ratio of the data (a restriction on her beliefs). A candidate equilibrium is an outc...