Research is underway to discover whether Traditional Chinese Medicine can help alleviate the symptoms of Alzheimers:
“While scientists are further exploring the molecular mechanisms by which curcumin battles the onset of Alzheimer’s, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctors say that using herbal extracts could demonstrate TCM’s capability to combat the disease.
For a long time, without knowing the name of the disease let alone the molecular mechanisms that cause Alzheimer’s, TCM doctors have been documenting its various symptoms. TCM attributes its causes to the exhaustion of the kidney and consumption of brain marrow.
“The principles of (TCM) treatment are tonifying the kidney and activating blood circulation,” said Zhu Zhuangzhuang, a gerontics doctor of Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command Zone.
Based on the disease’s symptoms, TCM doctors have given combinations of herbs such as shudi (Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata), fuling (Poria), gouqi (Fructus Lycii) and shanyurou (Fructus Corni).
In recent years, extracts of gingko have been tried as a more experimental method to help treat Alzheimer’s disease. The resulting data has been positive.
“As of now, scientists cannot clearly explain all of the mechanisms relating to the onset of Alzheimer’s, but one thing is clear: It is a result of a combination of factors including the environment, aging, lifestyle and food intake. TCM has an advantage in comprehensively considering the different factors together,” Zhu wrote in her review articles. ”
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