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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2019

Connecting Western and Eastern Medicine from an Energy Perspective.

Ming Zhang, Mohamed Moalin, Lily Vervoort, Zheng Wen Li, Wen Bo Wu, Guido Haenen

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Flavonoids Seen through the Energy Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
    Review
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Connecting West and East.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ming ZhangDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. z.ming@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Mohamed MoalinDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. m.moalin@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Lily VervoortDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. l.vervoort@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Zheng Wen LiDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. zhengwen.li@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Wen Bo WuDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. w.wu@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Guido HaenenDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. g.haenen@maastrichtuniversity.nl.ORCID 0000-0001-6986-290X
Maastricht University · NLZuyd University of Applied Sciences · NL

Funding

China Scholarship Council 201508460007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Western medicine and Eastern medicine are worlds apart, there is a striking overlap in the basic principle of these types of medicine when we look at them from the perspective of energy. In both worlds, opposing forces provide the energy that flows through networks in an organism, which fuels life. In this concept, health is the ability of an organism to maintain the balance between these opposing forces, i.e., homeostasis (West) and harmony (East), which creates resilience. Moreover, strategies used to treat diseases are strikingly alike, namely adjusting the flow of energy by changing the connections in the network. The energy perspective provides a basis to integrate Eastern and Western medicine, and opens new directions for research to get the best of both worlds.

Indexed as

Energy MetabolismAnimalsCross-Cultural ComparisonHumansMedicine, East Asian TraditionalSystems Biologyeastern medicineopposing forcesredoxresiliencewestern medicineYin–Yang

Identifiers

PMID30917563
PMCPMC6470590
OpenAlexW2923966691

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Registered trials

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