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Aug 1, 2022 | health and medicine, trending

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Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used in the treatment of disease for centuries, although its potency is often overlooked by researchers. Dr Yu-Ling Ma and colleagues in the Oxford Chinese Medicine Research Centre at the University of Oxford have focused on a multi-component herbal medicine called Xin Su Ning in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia to elucidate the mechanism of action and pharmacological properties of its components.

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This SciPod is a summary of the paper ‘Xin Su Ning – A Review of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Integrated With Traditional Chinese Medicine Antiarrhythmic Theory’, from the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2021.657484

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