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  • New Insights Show Ginseng Fights Inflammation
  • 5/15/2009
    New Insights Show Ginseng Fights Inflammation   Print
    FRIDAY, May 15 (HealthDay News) -- Ginseng has been used in medicine for centuries, and now its reputation for improving health is expanding: A new study has found that the herb, which is used in traditional Chinese and other Asian medicine, fights inflammation. Researchers from the University of Hong Kong identified seven constituents of ginseng, called ginsenosides, that showed immunosuppressive effects. The findings are published online in the Journal of Translational Medicine. "The anti-inflammatory role of ginseng may be due to the combined effects of these ginsenosides, targetin…
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • 5/5/2009
    Traditional Chinese Medicine and Infectious Disease   Print
    The first reference to infectious disease appeared in Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic), compiled in the first or second century CE. This text discussed re bing (hot disease), which refers to the various types of infectious disease.1 The understanding of infectious disease progressed further during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Many doctors recognized that these patterns of illness were significantly different from shang han (cold damage) patterns, so must be diagnosed and treated differently. Three of the most influential doctors during that era contributed to a new school…