Restoring Homeostatic Balance: Advances in Traditional Chinese Medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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| Title: | Restoring Homeostatic Balance: Advances in Traditional Chinese Medicine for Rheumatoid Arthritis. |
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| Authors: | Xiang, Yuhong (AUTHOR), Yang, Aihong (AUTHOR), Guo, Cong (AUTHOR), Cheng, Jintang (AUTHOR), Zhang, Jun (AUTHOR), Chen, Chang (AUTHOR), Chen, Sha (AUTHOR), Jiang, Jinzhu (AUTHOR), Di, Jipeng (AUTHOR), Liu, Xianju (AUTHOR), Li, Siyuan (AUTHOR), Liu, An (AUTHOR), Liu, Yan (AUTHOR), Xu, Qingxia (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | American Journal of Chinese Medicine. 2026, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p733-762. 30p. |
| Subjects: | Inflammation prevention, Chinese medicine, Homeostasis, Osteoblasts, Macrophages, Autophagy, Rheumatoid arthritis, Herbal medicine, Gut microbiota, Oxidative stress, Reactive oxygen species, Osteoclasts, Pathologic neovascularization, Disease progression |
| Abstract: | Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation-mediated joint damage. Its pathogenesis involves synergistic impairment of multiple physiological balances, including immune cell subset dysregulation, abnormal inflammation, oxidative stress, pathological angiogenesis, bone homeostasis disorder and gut microbiota dysbiosis. Conventional therapies have high costs and adverse effects. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) follows a holistic balance-restoring concept and is a promising alternative, with Tripterygium wilfordii, Wutou Decoction and Toddalia asiatica extract as evidence-based representatives. This review summarizes 2020–2025 in vitro and in vivo studies on anti-RA TCM. Its core therapeutic mechanism is multi-target, network-based regulation. It rectifies various pathological imbalances simultaneously: modulating immune cell polarization, rebalancing inflammatory factors, scavenging ROS, inhibiting abnormal angiogenesis, regulating osteoblast-osteoclast crosstalk and reshaping gut microbiota. Single TCM agents act on multiple balance networks, showing complex pharmacological properties. TCM's unique advantage for RA is reestablishing the body's dynamic homeostasis by targeting interconnected pathological balances. Further research is needed to clarify TCM components' synergistic regulatory mechanisms and promote their clinical translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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