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As the weather cools down and fall arrives, Schisandra fruits growing on the mountains are gradually turning red. The first to change their hues are those grown at a lower altitude. After some time, ...

Enhanced technologies and research standards for plant research could help strengthen the contribution of traditional Chinese medicine to drug discovery. Plants can be frustratingly inconsistent. With ...

A root extract of the Fallopia multiflora, or Chinese knotweed, has special properties: it enables the nematode C. elegans to live longer and protects it from oxidative stress, according to a new ...

A medicinal plant frequently used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) - Evodia rutaecarpa - contains substances that can cause cardiac arrhythmia. This is what researchers from the Universities of ...

Santa Clara, California, USA, 21st October 2013—More than 1,000 scholars, experts and practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) met last month in Santa Clara at the 10th World Congress of ...

Opportunities to ensure the long-term sustainability of wild-harvested species used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) ...

Trends and challenges in phytomedicine / Hildebert Wagner -- History of application of medicinal plants in china / Chang-Xiao Liu -- Ethnopharmacology of traditional chinese drugs from medicinal ...

The herb Stemona sessilifolia has long been used in traditional Chinese medicine to combat parasitic worm infections in people and to kill insects on plants. That insecticidal activity has now been ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the global outbreak of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has crippled public health systems and ...