a) State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
b) Post-doctoral Research Station, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
c) Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Morrill I, N344, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
d) Huadong Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, No. 221 West Yan'an Road, Shanghai, China
e) Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality, Beijing, China
f) Shanghai Key Lab of Chemical Assessment and Sustainability, Shanghai, China
g) Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Catania, 95125 Catania, Italy
This paper posits that herbal medicines used in TCM treatments may act through hormetic dose-response mechanisms. It is proposed that the stimulatory (i.e., low dose) and inhibitory (i.e., high dose) components of the hormetic dose response correspond to respective “regulating” and “curing” aspects of TCM herbal treatments. Specifically, the “regulating” functions promote adaptive or preventive responses, while “curing” treatments alleviate the clinical symptoms. Patterns of hormetic responses are described, and the applicability of these processes to herbal medicines of TCM are explicated.
Clinical Articles
The following section outlines the clinical papers, posters and proposals that refer to the clinical use of MRL mushroom nutrition products. This information is for healthcare practitioners only and should not be provided to members of the general public.
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Clinical articles
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Mushroom Nutrition In Neurodegenerative Diseases
Prof. Vittorio Calabrese
Faculty of Medicine, University of Catania and University of Messina, Italy -
Targeting Neurogenesis with Mushroom Nutrition: A Mini Review
Dr. Elisabete Ferreiro, CNC-Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology
CIBB-Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Prof. Tito Fernandes, CIISA
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal -
Central Nervous System Profiling of Hericium erinaceus Biomass Powder by an Electropharmacogram Using Spectral Field Power in Conscious Freely Moving Rats
Prof. Wilfried Dimpfel Justus
Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Dr. Julie Wiebe
Nektium Pharm S.L., Las Palmas, Spain
Dr. Nigel Gericke, Gericke Consulting
Baden, Switzerland
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A TCM Perspective on Mushroom Nutrition: Hericium erinaceus and Trametes versicolor (synn. Coriolus versicolor) as a synergistic combination
Karel Simonovsky and Zuzana Vancurikova