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African Traditional Medicine Day

August 31st

Arctium lappa x Korona

 Arctium lappa L. (Asteraceae): uma terapêutica promissora contra a Covid-19

"As repercussões de impacto global advindas da Covid-19, têm culminado em uma busca incessante, pelas comunidades científica e médica, por tratamento que seja eficaz e seguro na fase inicial da infecção, ao promover a neutralização do vírus ou impedir a sua evolução para formas graves da doença. Devido à dificuldade no estabelecimento de uma terapêutica validada e sabendo que a busca, na natureza, por substâncias medicinais para o tratamento de inúmeras doenças tem um histórico milenar, o A. lappa apresenta-se como uma alternativa promissora, uma vez que demonstra, a partir das suas propriedades (antiviral, antioxidante, imunomoduladora e anti-inflamatória) em consonância com a fisiopatologia do SARS-CoV-2, mecanismos favoráveis de controle do vírus e atenuação da doença."

https://api.arca.fiocruz.br/api/core/bitstreams/1738505f-896c-4314-abf9-53685a6f3dc5/content

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Arctium lappa

 

 Arctium lappa root: a review of its pharmacological properties and therapeutic applications

"Arctium lappa, widely recognized as burdock, is a perennial plant that is employed in the realm of traditional Chinese medicine for a wide range of medicinal applications. 

The utilization of Arctium lappa root extract has exhibited encouraging outcomes in addressing hepatotoxicity induced by cadmium, lead, chromium, and acetaminophen, ameliorating liver damage and oxidative stress. Additionally, the root extract displays properties such as antidiabetic, hypolipidemic, aphrodisiac, anti-rheumatic, anti-Alzheimer, and various other pharmacological actions."

Shyam M, Sabina EP. Harnessing the power of Arctium lappa root: a review of its pharmacological properties and therapeutic applications. Nat Prod Bioprospect. 2024 Aug 20;14(1):49. doi: 10.1007/s13659-024-00466-8. PMID: 39162715; PMCID: PMC11335715.

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WHO and Tradition Medicine

 

Opinion

The world health organization for more than fifty years has been dedicating itself to the questions of Traditional Medicine and defines Traditional Medicine as the “sum total of the knowledge, skill, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness” [1].

According to Dr. Anton & Suriya [2], the greatest revolution in international health policy was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, in the Soviet Union under the slogan “Health for All Not Year 2000”. Preceded by a series of meetings which having as theme the PHC, primary health care, in Alma-Ata, in 1962, there was an WHO International Health Conference. As a consequence of this meeting, the Institute of Alternative Medicine was created and one declaration was elaborated with a focus on PHC, according to Dr. Jayasuriya [2]. There was a second conference in Alma-Ata in 1978, centered on the same theme. According to Alma-Ata Declaration [3], PHC “relies, at local and referral levels, on health workers, including physicians, nurses, midwives, auxiliaries and community workers as applicable, as well as traditional practitioners as needed, suitably trained socially and technically to work as a health team”. PHC is a “people-centred, holistic approach to health that makes prevention as important as cure”, according to WHO former Director-General Dr. Margaret [4].

David Hruodbeorth

Artistic Expression of Beauty and Balance and the Binary System

WCCA2020 – XIII World Congress on Communication and Arts

Abstract. It is difficult to imagine modern life without the binary system, but really difficult is to imagine the binary language for thousands of years being used to interpret and represent the Universe.

As everything can be seen and expressed in these terms, this concept applied to the arts generated beautiful works that explored the balance between chiaroscuro, full and empty, solid and liquid, surface and depth.

There are ancient graphic representations of duality such as Heaven (spherical) and Earth (square), nature (wind and thunder, lake and mountain); climate (dryness and humidity, heat and cold) organism (hands, belly, ear, head), animals (horses, cows, sheep, pigs), symbols (mandalas, Pythagorean magic squares 3x3, 4x4, 9x9), families (parents and descent), mathematics, body movements (trimming, deflecting, pressing, pulling), cardinal points, images of peace, progress, darkness and return, among many other things.

This is part of the timeless knowledge of the I Ching, the Book of Changes.

David Hruodbeorth

Tai Chi, a Traditional “Medication in Motion” in the 21st Century

XX Safety, Health and Environment World Congress SHEWC2020 

Abstract. The world lives at the confluence of the 'impending disaster' of noncommunicable diseases (NCD), nearness of a post-antibiotic era due the decreasing effectiveness of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agentes, iatrogenesis, adoption of unhealthy lifestyles, rapid urbanization without planning, demographic aging, marketing of unhealthy products, insufficient physical activity, growing influence of environmental factors on the global disease burden and now, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Measures taken against the coronavirus could have a number of consequences, especially in the area of mental health.

Due to the corona pandemic, the focus of attention at this time is on WHO; however, the half-century efforts of the world health agency to bring Traditional Medicine to the center of health care in an appropriate, effective and safe manner are little known.

Traditional Medicine is defined as "the sum total of the knowledge, skill, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not, used in the maintenance of health as well as in the prevention, diagnosis,  improvement or treatment of physical and mental illness".

TM is generally close to home, affordable and reasonably priced and in some Asian and African countries up to 80% of the population depends on TM for primary health care.

For many millions of people, usually living in rural areas of developing countries, herbal medicines, traditional treatments and traditional doctors are the main - sometimes the only - source of health care.

The World Health Assembly in the last half century passed several resolutions on TM and WHO developed global TM Strategies, organized TM World Congresses and published a series of documents such as Guidelines and TM Benchmarks.

As Dr. Margareth Chan, former director of WHO, predicted, the moment has never been more opportune and the reasons have never been greater for giving TM its proper place in the treatment of the many evils that challenge the modern societies.

Today as an option "innovative" integrative treatment, Tai Chi is becoming increasingly prominent. Harvard said that TC, a body-mind technique that is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has value in treating or preventing many health problems and describes TC as a "medication in motion" that can be the "perfect activity for the rest of life" that the people can get started even if they aren't in top shape or the best of health.

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi is a reference book in terms of TM.

David Hruodbeorth

Tai Chi para Osteoartrite

Tai Chi é eficaz no tratamento da osteoartrite do joelho: ensaio clínico randomizado

 

Tai Chi Chuan praticado em 12 semanas reduziu a dor, melhorou a função física, a autoeficácia, a depressão, a qualidade de vida e o estado de saúde em pacientes com osteoartrite de joelho.

Tai Chi para Osteoartrite Wang C, Schmid CH, Hibberd PL, Kalish R, Roubenoff R, Rones R, McAlindon T. Tai Chi is effective in treating knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial. Arthritis Rheum. 2009 Nov 15;61(11):1545-53. doi: 10.1002/art.24832. PMID: 19877092; PMCID: PMC3023169.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3023169/

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