Alternative Medicine

An Automated Technique to Construct a Knowledge Base of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine for Cancers: An Exploratory Study for Breast Cancer.

Traditional Chinese Medicine utilization has rapidly increased worldwide. However, there is limited database provides the information of TCM herbs and diseases. The study aims to identify and evaluate the meaningful associations between TCM herbs and breast cancer by using the association rule mining (ARM) techniques. We employed the ARM techniques for 19.9 million TCM prescriptions by using Taiwa...

[Effect of Acupuncture at Points in Heel Vessel for Circadian Genes of 1 and 2 mRNAs in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus in Insomnia Rats].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence and mechanism of acupuncture at the points in Heel Vessel for the circadian clock genes of Period () 1 and 2 mRNAs in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in insomnia rats.

[Preliminary study on standardization of production and processing of Angelicae Sinensis Radix pieces].

Study on the standardization of Chinese materia medica is an important action for modernization and globalization for traditional Chinese medicine. St...

Preliminary study of a robotic foot-ankle prosthesis with active alignment.

Robotic prosthetic foot-ankle prostheses typically aim to replace the lost joint with revolute joints aimed at replicating normal joint biomechanics. ...

Determination of coumarin in seasonal bakery products using QuEChERS and GC-MS.

Cinnamon is a traditional herbal drug, but more importantly, it is used as a flavor compound in the production of foodstuff. Due to the content of sig...

MICROTOX TEST AS A TOOL TO ASSESS ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF HERBAL INFUSIONS USED IN URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS.

Herbs can be used preventatively, to aid treatment and to ease the symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTIs). Traditional medicine uses herbal infus...

Complementary learning systems within the hippocampus: a neural network modelling approach to reconciling episodic memory with statistical learning.

A growing literature suggests that the hippocampus is critical for the rapid extraction of regularities from the environment. Although this fits with ...

The Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO): Supporting GO Annotations.

The Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) is a community resource for describing the various types of evidence that are generated during the course o...

Complementary Sources of Protein Functional Information: The Far Side of GO.

The GO captures many aspects of functional annotations, but there are other alternative complementary sources of protein function information. For exa...

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF THE ROOT EXTRACTS OF PULSATILLA PATENS AGAINST CANDIDA GLABRATA.

Plants from the genus of Pulsatilla produce a variety of secondary metabolites with biological activity. These species play a special role in herbal m...

Jakyakgamcho-tang and Its Major Component, Paeonia Lactiflora, Exhibit Potent Anti-glycation Properties.

PURPOSE: Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetes and other age-related diseases. AGE inhibitors or...

[Review and prospect of the standardization of acupuncture and moxibustion in China].

Literature,achievements and other materials on acupuncture-moxibustion standardization research in recent years were collected and summarized domestic...

Effect of Catechins, Green tea Extract and Methylxanthines in Combination with Gentamicin Against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: - Combination therapy against resistant bacteria.

OBJECTIVES: Bacterial resistant infections have become a global health challenge and threaten the society's health. Thus, an urgent need exists to fin...

Complementary feature selection from alternative splicing events and gene expression for phenotype prediction.

MOTIVATION: A central task of bioinformatics is to develop sensitive and specific means of providing medical prognoses from biomarker patterns. Common...

Comparison of aglycon and glycosidic saponin extracts of tuber against spp.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Candidiasis, an important fungal infection, is considered the fourth most common nosocomial blood stream infection. Nowadays, ...

Finding 'Evidence of Absence' in Medical Notes: Using NLP for Clinical Inferencing.

Extracting evidence of the absence of a target of interest from medical text can be useful in clinical inferencing. The purpose of our study was to de...

Traditionally used herbal medicines with antibacterial effect on : and .

BACKGROUND: Since bacterial strains developed resistance against commonly used antibiotics and side effects became more serious, other alternatives ha...

[Analysis of optimal plan of multiple acupuncture manipulations for shoulder pain after stroke at different stages].

OBJECTIVE: To observe the effects between acupuncture combined with rehabilitation and simple rehabilitation for shoulder pain after stroke, and to se...

[Clinical observation of recurrent oral ulcer of heat accumulation in the heart and spleen treated with acupoint injection and fire needling therapy].

OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical efficacy between the combined acupuncture therapy of acupoint injection and fire needling and the oral administrati...

Intravenous Toxicity Study of Water-soluble Ginseng Pharmacopuncture in SD Rats.

OBJECTIVES: Radix Ginseng has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of diseases. Radix ginseng has also been used as a traditional ...