Search results for: 'Shen Su Cha'

Compared with tactile stimulation, acupuncture stimulation produces stronger de qi sensations and results in more widespread spatial patterns of sensation, including areas remote from the stimulus site ...

Acupuncture can improve reduced tactile acuity (TA) in patients suffering from chronic low back pain (cLBP) reports an American research team ...

A two-herb formula consisting of the herbs Huang Qi (Astragali Radix, RA) and Sheng Di Huang (Rehmanniae Radix, RR) can enhance diabetic wound healing because of its angiogenic and anti-inflammatory activities, which promote tissue regeneration.

A Chinese herbal formula has been found to improve cognitive performance in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) ...

Evidence supporting the use of TCM in asthma treatment in is increasing. Two American authors have reviewed promising TCM interventions for asthma and explored their mechanisms of action. Possible mechanisms at work include anti-inflammation, inhibition of airway smooth muscle contraction, and immunomodulation. One of the authors has recently presented some preliminary results from a clinical tria ...

Research from the USA suggests that traditional Chinese herbal medicines (TCMs) used to treat cardiovascular disease may act by producing large amounts of nitric oxide (NO). NO is a chemical messenger molecule that is crucial to the cardiovascular system because of its vasodilatory action. It promotes blood flow through the heart and circulatory system, eliminates blood clots, lowers high blood pr ...

Salvianolic acid B (Sal B), a major active component of Dan Shen (Salviae miltiorrhizae Radix) may exert a neuroprotective effect by activating anti-inflammatory pathways in microglia (the resident macrophages of the brain and spinal cord). The results of the Chinese study showed that Sal B significantly reduced the production of inflammatory mediators - nitric oxide (NO), tumor necrosis factor-al ...

Author Sefkat Charlotte Abenyakar, MDSpecialist in Acupuncture - Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Abstract In this report a patient who developed memory loss after a psychological trauma and to whom none of the therapies applied during a period of time of ten years proved beneficial is presented. After 20 sessions of acupuncture therapy, important improvements occurred and the patient who is ...

Treatment with the Chinese herbal formula Fuzhisan (FZS) may have a positive effect on cognition, behavioral functions, and cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD).

A Chinese herbal formula, 'Ningdong granules' (NDG), has been shown to reduce tics in children with Tourette's syndrome.