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Pomegranate peel extract, along with a calorie deficit diet, could improve risk factors of metabolic syndrome and reduce fatty liver in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
NAFLD Pomegranate Pomegranate Peel
Jin Si Huang Ju tea, a traditional Chinese beverage, contains compounds that potentially reduce lipids, mitigate insulin resistance and reduce liver inflammation in vitro.
Cholesterol Chrysanthemum NAFLD
Carotenoid-rich foods like orange carrots were more effective in mitigating Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease than those with low carotenoid levels.
Carrot Food As Medicine NAFLD
Traditional Chinese medicines might have various beneficial effects for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease such as improving TCM syndrome score, liver function, and body lipid profile.
Fatty Liver Disease NAFLD
Traditional Chinese medicines such as Shenge formula, Shugan Jianpi Huatan decoction and Heze lipid lowing oral liquid decoction might have positive effects on NAFLD by improving TCM syndrome scores, liver function, and body lipid profile.
Fatty Liver Disease Metabolic Syndrome NAFLD
With a multi-ingredient and multi-target-pathway pharmacological action, Chinese medicine compounds are compatible with the complex pathogenesis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease to mitigate it.
NAFLD
Chinese medicine formulas for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease were superior to antioxidants in alanine aminotransferase normalization.
Fatty Liver Disease Metabolic Syndrome NAFLD
Shen Ling Bai Zhu San was found to inhibit inflammatory damage in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, thus offering potential as a preventive and therapeutic treatment.
Chinese Herbal Formulas Chinese Herbal Medicine Hepatoprotective
A variety of Chinese herbal medicines have been reported to effectively prevent or treat nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by regulation of the gut microbiota and the gut-liver axis.
Digestive Health Gut Microbiota NAFLD
Many clinical and experimental studies suggest that Chinese herbal formula are effective in reducing fatty liver disease, and revolving inflammation via many mechanistic pathways.
Fatty Liver Disease NAFLD
Green tea influences liver enzymes differently based on an individual's health status, reducing levels in patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, but slightly increasing levels in healthy subjects.
Green Tea NAFLD
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Spelling discrepancy: Chaihu-Shugan-San vs Chai Hu Shu Gan San
2025 Phytomedicine Regulation of inflammation by Chaihu-Shugan-San: Targeting the IL-17/ NF-κB pathway to combat breast cancer-related depression
The water extract of Gastrodia elata and Uncaria rhynchophylla helps to relieve ischemic brain injury, likely by affecting metabolites involved with oxidative stress, inflammation, and excitotoxicity.
2016 OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology Cerebrospinal Fluid Metabolomics After Natural Product Treatment in an Experimental Model of Cerebral Ischemia
The used liquid chromatographies successfully identified 28 of the complex compounds found in traditional Chinese medicine - Tian Gui You (TGY).
2016 Chinese Medicine Full component analysis of Tianma-Gouteng-Yin
Tianmagouteng particles (TMGTP) could mitigate cognitive dysfunction in spontaneously hypertensive rats, potentially by altering glucose metabolism in different brain regions.
2017 Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy Effects of Tianmagouteng particles on brain cognitive function in spontaneously hypertensive rats with hyperactivity of liver-yang: A [F-18] FDG micro-PET imaging study
The research suggests that the Traditional Chinese Medicine formula Tian-Ma-Gou-Teng-Yin could potentially slow Alzheimer's disease progression through neuroprotection and anti-neuroinflammation.
2018 Frontiers in Pharmacology A Computational Systems Pharmacology Approach to Investigate Molecular Mechanisms of Herbal Formula Tian-Ma-Gou-Teng-Yin for Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
The traditional Chinese medicine combination, GU, alleviates migraines by modifying gut microbial structures and metabolism, with potential metabolic and microbial clues pinpointed.
2019 Frontiers in Pharmacology Metabolomics and 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Analyses of Changes in the Intestinal Flora and Biomarkers Induced by Gastrodia-Uncaria Treatment in a Rat Model of Chronic Migraine
Tianma-Gouteng granule, used for treating hypertension and stroke, undergoes glucuronidation and sulfation for metabolism, with urinary excretion being the main avenue for elimination from the body.
2019 Journal of Separation Science Metabolite profiling and quantification of phytochemicals of Tianma–Gouteng granule in human and rat urine using ultra high performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry
The intake of Tianma-Gouteng granule, a Chinese herbal formula, results in absorption and metabolising of numerous identified compounds, with the phase II biotransformation pathway as the main metabolic process.
2019 Biomedical Chromatography Identification of the absorbed components and their metabolites of Tianma‐Gouteng granule in rat plasma and bile using ultra‐high‐performance liquid chromatography combined with quadrupole time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry
Tianma Gouteng Decoction improves hypertension-induced cardiovascular damage, significantly reversing cardiac and vascular remodeling, and promoting heart function through enhanced antiapoptosis and survival pathways.
2020 Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Tianma Gouteng Decoction Exerts Cardiovascular Protection by Upregulating OPG and TRAIL in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats
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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.
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—Rachael L 3 Oct 2024
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—Jinnan C 25 Apr 2024
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Need observational study tag
—Adrian Y 19 Mar 2024
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—Jinnan C 26 Feb 2024
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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
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Case study?
—Adrian Y 16 Jan 2024
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No abstract?
—Adrian Y 16 Jan 2024
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