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Greater intake of blueberries considerably decreases the risk of age-related macular degeneration, while a remarkable dietary intake of anthocyanins inversely correlates with cataract incidents.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration Anthocyanins Bioactive Compounds
The traditional Chinese medicine prescription combination of Chrysanthemi Flos, Cassiae Semen, Lycii Fructus, Angelicae Sinensis Radix and Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma presents potential for treating retinal diseases.
Eye Health Health Conditions Retinitis Pigmentosa
The review reveals that nutritional supplements, particularly fish oils, vitamins, trace elements, and phytochemical extracts, show promising therapeutic potential for Dry Eye Disease management.
Dry Eye Eye Health
The research unveils luteolin, quercetin, and kaempferol in RALRG as promising complementary components for RP treatment, with a key role in managing oxidative stress and PI3K/AKT signaling pathways.
Chinese Herbal Medicine Dang Gui Eye Health
Acupuncture, either alone or as an adjunct, improved the clinical efficacy and visual acuity of age-related macular degeneration patients, particularly those with dry AMD.
Acupuncture Age-Related Macular Degeneration Eye Health
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements can effectively alleviate symptoms of dry eye disease, especially when consumed in high doses for a long term and with high eicosapentaenoic acid levels.
Dry Eye Eicosapentaenoic Acid Eye Health
Qi Shen Tang, a traditional Chinese medicine, was found to suppress retinal cell death in retinitis pigmentosa by inhibiting a process called ferroptosis.
Eye Health Ferroptosis Food Nutrients
Chrysanthemum has several active ingredients that can potentially treat dry eye by inhibiting inflammation-related factors and pathways, thus reducing inflammation of lacrimal gland tissue.
Chrysanthemum Dry Eye Eye Health
Lycium barbarum polysaccharide may decrease apoptosis in retinal photoreceptor cells of retinitis pigmentosa mice by suppressing nuclear factor-kappa B/NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain-associated protein 3 pathway.
Eye Health Health Conditions Retinitis Pigmentosa
Zhangyanming Tablets show potential as a protective agent for retinal function in early-stage, genetically-caused blindness in mice, possibly due to their antioxidant and anti-/pro-apoptotic properties.
Chinese Herbal Medicine Dang Shen Eye Health
Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCM) could increase the survival rate of retinal ganglion cells, thereby playing an active role in treating glaucoma.
Eye Health Glaucoma
The Chinese herbal medicine Bujing Yishi tablets could alleviate photoreceptor degeneration in retinitis pigmentosa by inhibiting microglial over-activation and inflammation.
Bu Jing Yi Shi Tablets Eye Health Health Conditions
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Acupuncture has proven efficient as a second-line treatment for plantar fasciitis, demonstrating strong effectiveness in pain reduction at a one-month interval.
2024 Cureus Journal of Medical Science Comparative Effectiveness of Acupuncture Versus Non-surgical Modalities for Treating Plantar Fasciitis: A Network Meta-Analysis
Combining traditional Chinese medicine fumigation with acupotomy showed improved effectiveness in treating heel pain compared to medicinal treatment alone.
2025 Medicine The curative effect of traditional Chinese medicine fumigation combined with acupotomy in the treatment of heel pain: A meta-analysis
Adding an acupuncture protocol with electrostimulation to standard exercises enhances pain relief and function in adults with plantar fasciopathy more than exercise alone.
2025 Medical Acupuncture Electroacupuncture for Plantar Fasciopathy: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial
Acupuncture, especially high-intensity acupuncture, noticeably reduces pain in patients with chronic recalcitrant plantar fasciitis.
2026 Complementary Therapies in Medicine Efficacy of acupuncture for chronic recalcitrant plantar fasciitis: A randomized trial
Acupuncture appears to be a safe treatment method for thrombocytopenic adult cancer patients, with no adverse bruising or bleeding incidents reported.
2015 Medical Acupuncture The Safety of Acupuncture in Patients with Cancer Therapy–Related Thrombocytopenia
Traditional Chinese medicine treatments showed sustained response in a child's chronic immune thrombocytopenia resistant to conventional treatments.
2025 Explore: The Journal of Science & Healing Traditional Chinese medicine as an alternative therapy for chronic immune thrombocytopenia in children: A case report
Electroacupuncture is effective in reducing postoperative pain in patients who have undergone surgery for mixed hemorrhoids.
2022 Medicine Electroacupuncture for postoperative pain in mixed hemorrhoids: A meta-analysis
Diltiazem ointment stands out as the most efficient medication in relieving pain post-open hemorrhoidectomy within a week of surgery.
2023 International Journal of Colorectal Disease Comparing the efficacy and safety of different analgesic strategies after open hemorrhoidectomy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Electroacupuncture at the Baliao point treatment reduces short-term anal pain, swelling after hemorrhoid procedures, urinary retention incidents, and lessens postoperative analgesic drug use.
2023 International Journal of Colorectal Disease Electroacupuncture at Baliao point alleviates post-operative pain and anal distension after procedure for prolapse and hemorrhoids (stapled hemorrhoidopexy): a prospective randomized clinical trial
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The first research article I've ever come across that discusses the benefits of non-alcoholic beer during pregnancy. Further research and caution is advised here.
—Jinnan C 9 Nov 2025
2022 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture The melatonin contained in beer can provide health benefits, due to its antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties
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—Rachael L 3 Oct 2024
2018 Advances in Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences - Open Journal Blueberry Polyphenols and Their Effects on Bone and Joint
Cannot find the article with the link provided -- Rach...
—Rachael L 6 Aug 2024
2018 Nursing and Midwifery Studies The effects of inhalation aromatherapy with Boswellia carterii essential oil on the intensity of labor pain among nulliparous women
Zhangyanming Tablets (ZYMT) has been in clinical use for almost 4 decades. The main components of this medicine include Fructus Lycii (wolfberry), Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Radix Puerariae Lobatae, Radix...
—Jinnan C 25 Apr 2024
2023 Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy Protective effect of ZYMT, a traditional Chinese patent medicine in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa
Need observational study tag
—Adrian Y 19 Mar 2024
2019 Medical Acupuncture An Observational Study on Acupuncture for Earthquake-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Experience of the Lombard Association of Medical Acupuncturists/Acupuncture in the World, in Amatrice, Central Italy
The relative risk reduction for those taking statins compared with those who did not was 9% for deaths, 29% for heart attacks and 14% for strokes. Yet the absolute risk...
—Jinnan C 26 Feb 2024
2022 JAMA Internal Medicine Evaluating the Association Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Reduction and Relative and Absolute Effects of Statin Treatment
The ability to produce it is not present in over half of the human population due to the absence of specific equol-producing bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
—Jinnan C 22 Jan 2024
2022 Nutrients Maximizing the Estrogenic Potential of Soy Isoflavones through the Gut Microbiome: Implication for Cardiometabolic Health in Postmenopausal Women
Case study?
—Adrian Y 16 Jan 2024
2016 Agriculture & Food Security The humble sardine (small pelagics): fish as food or fodder
No abstract?
—Adrian Y 16 Jan 2024
2021 Circulation Effects of Walnut Consumption for 2 Years on Lipoprotein Subclasses Among Healthy Elders