Progress in treatment of facial neuritis by acupuncture combined with medicine from the perspective of modern medicine: A review.

Facial neuritis is a common clinical disease with high incidence, also known as Bell palsy or idiopathic facial nerve paralysis, which is an acute onset of peripheral facial neuropathy. In modern medicine, there have been obstacles to the effective treatment of facial neuritis. At present, the clinical use of Western medicine treatment is also a summary of clinical experience, the reason is that the cause of facial neuritis is unknown. Facial neuritis belongs to the category of "facial paralysis" in traditional Chinese medicine. For thousands of years, Chinese medicine has accumulated a lot of relevant treatment experience in the process of diagnosis and treatment. At the same time, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and the combination of acupuncture and medicine play an important role in the treatment of facial neuritis. This article discusses the treatment of facial neuritis with acupuncture combined with Chinese medicine, based on the research progress of modern medicine. In this review, we provide an overview of the effectiveness of acupuncture and medication combinations and facial neuritis with current studies investigating acupuncture and medication combinations in the treatment of facial neuritis.

Indirect regulation of topsoil nutrient cycling by groundwater depth: impacts on sand-fixing vegetation and rhizosphere bacterial communities.

Introduction: The impact of groundwater table depth (GTD) on bacterial communities and soil nutrition in revegetated areas remains unclear. Methods: We investigated the impacts of plant growth and soil physicochemical factors on rhizosphere bacterial communities under different GTD. Results: The four plant growth indices (Pielou, Margalef, Simpson, and Shannon-Wiener indices) and soil water content (SWC) at the Artem and Salix sites all showed a decreasing trend with increasing GTD. Salix had a higher nutrient content than Artem. The response of plant rhizosphere bacterial communities to GTD changes were as follows. Rhizosphere bacteria at the Artem and Salix sites exhibited higher relative abundance and alpha diversity in SW (GTD < 5 m) compared than in DW (GTD > 5 m). Functional microbial predictions indicated that the rhizosphere bacterial communities of Artem and Salix promoted carbon metabolism in the SW. In contrast, Artem facilitated nitrogen cycling, whereas Salix enhanced both nitrogen cycling and phototrophic metabolism in the DW. Discussion: Mantel test analysis revealed that in the SW of Artem sites, SWC primarily governed the diversity of rhizosphere and functional bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle by affecting plant growth. In DW, functional bacteria increase soil organic carbon (SOC) to meet nutrient demands. However, higher carbon and nitrogen availability in the rhizosphere soil was observed in the SW of the Salix sites, whereas in DW, carbon nutrient availability correlated with keystone bacteria, and changes in nitrogen content could be attributed to nitrogen mineralization. This indicates that fluctuations in the groundwater table play a role in regulating microbes and the distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen nutrients in arid environments.

Effects of oxygen functional groups and FeCl3 on the evolution of physico-chemical structure in activated carbon obtained from Jixi bituminous coal.

It is crucial to increase the values of S BET/burn-off ratio to achieve activated carbon (AC) with a higher SO2 adsorption capacity at a low cost from flue gas. In this study, at first, Jixi bituminous coal was used as a raw material to prepare a series of pre-treated samples by oxidation treatment and adding different amounts of the FeCl3 catalyst. Then, the AC samples were prepared by pyrolysis under a N2 atmosphere and physical activation with CO2. Finally, the change in the physico-chemical structure of different samples was determined to study the effects of oxygen functional groups and FeCl3. The results show that the rapid growth of mesopores is mainly influenced by the evolution of oxygen functional groups, whereas the micropores are mainly influenced by the FeCl3 catalyst during pyrolysis. These effects can also further improve the size and the carbon type of the aromatic structure from a different perspective to promote the disordered microstructure of treated chars (1FeJXO15-800H, 3FeJXO15-800H and 6FeJXO15-800H) as compared to the ordered microstructure and less pores of the un-pretreated char (JX-800). Then, the active sites can no longer be consumed preferentially in the presence of the catalyst; this results in the continuous disordered conversion of the microstructure as compared to the ordered conversion of JX-800 char during activation. On the one hand, the developed initial pores of 1FeJXO15-800H, 3FeJXO15-800H, and 6FeJXO15-800H chars promote the favorable diffusion of activated gas, following the non-hierarchical development. On the other hand, the presence of Fe-based catalysts facilitates the etching of carbon structure and the rapid and continuous development of the micropores, hindering the severe carbon losses on the particle surface. Finally, the 3FeJXO15-800H char with a high value of S BET (1274.64 m2 g-1) at a low burn-off value (22.5%) has the highest S BET/burn-off ratio value of 56.65 m2 g-1/%, whereas the JX-800 char with a low value of S BET (564.19 m2 g-1) at a burn-off value of 58.2% has the lowest S BET/burn-off ratio value of 9.69 m2 g-1/%. Therefore, the presence of oxygen functional groups and FeCl3 has obviously changed the evolution of the physico-chemical structure in activated carbon to effectively enhance the values of S BET/burn-off.

Experimental and modeling study of the effects of multicomponent gas additives on selective non-catalytic reduction process.

The influence of multicomponent additives on NO reduction by selective non-catalytic reduction process has been investigated experimentally in an electricity-heated tube reactor. The multicomponent additives are composed of two species of CO, CH(4) and H(2), and the molar ratio of their two components varies from 1/3 to 3/1. The results show that all the investigated additives could decrease the optimal temperature for NO reduction effectively, but the contributions of their components are different. The performance of multicomponent additive composed of CO and CH(4) depends mainly on CH(4) component. The function of CO component is shifting the temperature window for NO reduction to lower temperature slightly and narrowing the temperature window a little. The temperature window with multicomponent additive composed of H(2) and CH(4) is distinct from that with its each component, so both H(2) and CH(4) component make important contributions. While the fraction of CO is no more than that of H(2) in multicomponent additives composed of them, the performance of multicomponent additives is dominated by H(2) component; while the fraction of CO becomes larger, the influence of CO component becomes notable. Qualitatively the modeling results using a detailed chemical kinetic mechanism exhibit the same characteristics of the temperature window shift as observed experimentally. By reaction mechanism analysis, the distinct influences of CO, CH(4) or H(2) component on the property of multicomponent additive are mainly caused by the different production rates of (*)OH radical in their own oxidation process.