Traditional Chinese medicine

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. It has been described as "fraught with pseudoscience", with the majority of its treatments having no logical mechanism of action. Medicine in traditional China encompassed a range of sometimes competing health and healing practices, folk beliefs, literati theory and Confucian philosophy, herbal remedies, food, diet, exercise, medical specializations, and schools of thought. In the early twentieth century, Chinese cultural and political modernizers worked to eliminate traditional practices as backward and unscientific. Traditional practitioners then selected elements of philosophy and practice and organized them into what they called "Chinese medicine" (Zhongyi). In the 1950s, the Chinese government sponsored the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, promoted Chinese medicine as inexpe

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AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Asperuloside (ASP) is an iridoid glycoside that is extracted from Eucommia leaves. Eucommia is used in traditional Chinese medicine and has a long history of benefits on health and longevity. Here, we investigated the impact of ASP on obesity-related metabolic disorders and show that ASP reduces body weight gain, glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance effectively in mice fed with a high-fat diet (HFD). Intestinal dysbiosis is closely linked with metabolic disorders. Our data indicate that ASP achieves these benefits on metabolic homeostasis by reversing HFD-induced gut dysbiosis and by changing gut-derived secondary metabolites and metabolic signaling. Our results indicate that ASP may be used to regulate gut microbiota for the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

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In the endeavor towards distributed power systems, not seasonal-dependent micro-power generation technologies are expected to integrate the energy scenario in the years to come. In this context, the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) in the (1e10) KWe scale has chronically lacked a suitable expansion device, hindering its market attractiveness. As scroll expanders have been pointed out as strong potential candidates, performance correlations and pre-design maps based on a review and analysis of published experimental data are presented. A dimensionless approach based on the traditional Ns, Ds dimen-sionless numbers stemming from turbomachinery has been chosen for greater generality. In addition, the lubricating oil mass fraction effect on the scroll expander performance has been included. The generated maps contribute to accelerating the pre-design phases at the system and component level with beneficial effects for the overall development process. Basic geometry and size characteristics are considered as well, acknowledging their importance in micro-power embedded applications; these considerations are illustrated in a passenger car waste-heat recovery case study. Findings suggest that optimized scroll expanders may potentially reach very interesting nominal electric isentropic efficiencies (up to 80% for an oil lubricated scroll expander).

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