INTRODUCTION: Bitter melon (Momordica charantia, Cucurbitaceae) is a popular edible medicinal plant, which has been used as a botanical dietary supplement for the treatment of diabetes and obesity in Chinese folk medicine. Previously, our team has proved that cucurbitanes triterp...
Traditional Chinese Medicine Dachaihu decoction (DCHD) has been reported to hold great promise to alleviate autism spectrum disorders (ASD), a generalized neurodevelopmental disease associated with gut microbiome dysbiosis. Health-promoting effects of DCHD on ASD children could be attributed to g...
Hua-Feng-Dan is a traditional Chinese medicine compound used to treat ischemic stroke, but little is known about its therapeutic mechanism. This study explored whether and how the mechanism involves readjustment of gut microbiota. Rats were subjected to middle cerebral artery occlusion as a model...
Ulmus parvifolia (U. parvifolia) was traditionally used in the treatment of some diseases such as inflammation, diarrhea and fevers. With the wide application of molecular biotechnology in plant development and utilization, the pharmaceutical value and chemical composition of th...