Steeped In the Ten Thousand Things: a research digest & integrative medical discussion

Episode 2: Chinese Herbal Medicine Through Tradition & Science, Overcoming COVID19 Challenges, and The Tongshu & 28 Lunar Mansions

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This episode is an exploration of a sea of topics, all in the ocean of coronavirus research, implications on clinic/classroom experiences and safety, and the need to root ourselves in a more grounded sense of time and place as societal upheaval pushes us all to the limits.


In our first section, Spill the Tea, we share the teas we are drinking.  Michael is enjoying one of his teas, a "Jasmine Aroma" Phoenix Oolong.  Zach is drinking a Pu'erh tuocha from Floating Leaves tea shop.

During our extensive research discussion, we cover a number of papers on Chinese herbal medicine, approaches to studying it, and how to bring traditional methods of formula selection into modern clinical usage, most notably in the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 and it's symptoms.

  • Chung VC, Ma PH,  Lau CH, Wong SY, Yeoh EK, Griffiths SM. Views on traditional Chinese  medicine amongst Chinese population: a systematic review of qualitative  and quantitative studies. Health Expect. 2014;17(5):622-636. 
  • Sinha, S. K., Prasad, S. K., Islam, M. A., Gurav, S. S., Patil, R. B.,  AlFaris, N. A., ... & Shakya, A. (2020). Identification of bioactive  compounds from glycyrrhiza glabra as possible inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2  spike glycoprotein and non-structural protein-15: A pharmacoinformatics  study. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1-15.
  • LuoLiu, P., & Li, J. (2020). Pharmacologic perspective: glycyrrhizin may be an efficacious therapeutic agent for COVID-19. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 105995.
  • https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418056/building-blocks-covid-19-antiviral-drugs-identified-rapid-study
  • https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/Protein-mapping-finds-over-60/98/i12
  • Gilbert C. Gee, Marguerite J. Ro, and Anne W. Rimoin, 2020: Seven Reasons to Care About Racism and COVID-19 and Seven Things to Do to Stop It. American Journal of Public Health 110, 954_955.
  • Eng, Y. S., Lee, C. H., Lee, W. C., Huang, C. C., & Chang, J. S.  (2019). Unraveling the molecular mechanism of traditional chinese  medicine: formulas against acute airway viral infections as examples. Molecules, 24(19), 3505.
  • Zhang, A., Sun, H., Wang, Z., Sun, W., Wang, P., & Wang, X. (2010).  Metabolomics: towards understanding traditional Chinese medicine. Planta medica, 76(17), 2026-2035.
  • Liu, X., Lv, M., Wang, Y., Zhao, D., Zhao, S., Li, S., & Qin, X.  (2020). Deciphering the compatibility rule of Traditional Chinese  Medicine prescription based on NMR metabolomics: A case study of  Xiaoyaosan. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 112726.
  • HealthCMi. COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Herbs Found Effective. 14 June 2020, www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/2039-covid-19-coronavirus-herbs-found-effective.

    • Music used at end: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Humanfobia/Witch_Spell/02_-_Spell_on_the_Witch_House_with_Tesla_Tea


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