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🌿 Herb

Salt

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Clinical Trials

Meta-Analyses

PubMed References

Top Conditions Studied with Salt

Excess salt consumption, a common phenomenon worldwide, is a 1 Healthy 1 Reducing salt intake at the community level is one of the ea 1 Dietary salt intake, its reduction and blood pressure 1 Acute Heart Failure|Congestion|Heart Failure 1 Overweight and/or obesity. 1 diabetic kidney disease patients 1 Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common, with an estimated pr 1 Diabetes mellitus is threatening the health of population wo 1 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most preval 1 Changes in cognitive function or risk of dementia. 1 Meta-analyses will be included if they focus on efficacy of 1

📋 Sample Trials

NCT05369416

Renal Metabolism in Salt-sensitive Human Blood Pressure

Recruiting

NCT05589428

Low-salt Bread in Heart Failure, Pilot Study

Completed

NCT05839860

Salt Intake, Hydration Status and Gastrointestinal Discomfort During Fasting

Completed

📊 Sample Meta-Analyses

CRD42019140944

Effectiveness and safety of indirect moxibustion for the treatment of allergic rhinitis: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common symptomatic, immunological and chronic inflam

CRD42013005350

Is dietary salt reduction counselling effective? A systematic review of RCTs

Untreated hypertension

CRD42015016440

Dietary sodium intake and overweight and obesity in children and adults: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Overweight and/or obesity.

📚 Sample References

None linked yet.

🌿 All Herb data fields for Salt

🌿 Names

Pinyin Name

Shi Yan

中文名 (Chinese)

食盐

Latin Name

Natrii Chloridum

English Name

Salt

Alias Names

盐; 咸鹾

☯ TCM Properties

Properties (性味)

Cold; Salty

Meridians (归经)

Lung; Stomach; Kidney

Therapeutic Class (EN)

Vomiting promotion

功效分类 (CN)

涌吐

🩺 Clinical Profile

Function (功能)

Vomiting promotion

🔗 External References

HERB DB

HERB005096 ↗

TCMID

6292

TCM-ID

1956

🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (26 fields)

name

Salt

chinese name

食盐

pinyin name

Shi Yan

latin name

Natrii Chloridum

english name

Salt

properties english

Cold; Salty

meridians english

Lung; Stomach; Kidney

tcmid id

6292

herb id str

HERB005096

function text

Vomiting promotion

therapeutic en class

Vomiting promotion

therapeutic cn class

涌吐

tcm id id

1956

alias name

盐; 咸鹾

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🏥 Linked Health Topics

1 · diseases via target pathways

Hypertension

disease

📋 Clinical Trials

7 · subject of clinical study

NCT05369416 Renal Metabolism in Salt-sensitive Human Blood Pressure

→ Hypertension

NCT05589428 Low-salt Bread in Heart Failure, Pilot Study

→ Heart Failure, Systolic|Sodium Imbalance|Food Sele

NCT05839860 Salt Intake, Hydration Status and Gastrointestinal Discomfort During Fasting

→ Healthy

NCT05888220 Application of Warm Water and Warm Salt Water to Patients With Rheumatoid Arthri

→ Rheumatoid Arthritis - Rheumatism

NCT05869565 Best Solution Identification to Prevent Hyperchloremia Combinations of Sodium Ch

→ Stroke, Acute

NCT05962255 Sodium Chloride vs. Glucose Solute as a Volume Replacement Therapy During Decong

→ Acute Heart Failure|Congestion|Heart Failure

NCT05808972 0.9% Saline Versus Balanced Solutions in Severe Diabetic Ketoacidosis

→ Metabolic Ketoacidosis|Ketoacidemia|Acetonemia|Ace

📊 Meta-Analyses

12 · systematic review

CRD42019140944 Effectiveness and safety of indirect moxibustion for the treatment of allergic r

→ Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common symptomatic, im

CRD42013005350 Is dietary salt reduction counselling effective? A systematic review of RCTs

→ Untreated hypertension

CRD42015016440 Dietary sodium intake and overweight and obesity in children and adults: a proto

→ Overweight and/or obesity.

CRD42015019504 Reduced salt intake for heart failure [Cochrane Protocol]

→ The Cochrane Heart Group

CRD42015027689 The effect of salt fluoridation in the prevalence of dental caries and dental fl

→ Systemic methods of fluoride use for the control o

CRD42016042404 Is dietary salt associated with small vessel disease?

→ Small vessel disease

CRD42019121330 The effectiveness of increased salt intake for symptomatic orthostatic hypotensi

→ Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is common, with an es

CRD42019146324 Dietary salt intake and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older-aged adults:

→ Changes in cognitive function or risk of dementia.

CRD42020173830 A comparison of the effects of interventions for dietary salt reduction on popul

→ Excess salt consumption, a common phenomenon world

CRD42020203940 Dietary salt intake and effectiveness of reduction interventions on intake and b

→ Dietary salt intake, its reduction and blood press

CRD42020206234 Effects of sodium restriction diet on treatment of diabetic kidney disease patie

→ diabetic kidney disease patients

CRD42020221165 Interventions to successfully reduce adults salt intake

→ Interventions that successfully (statistically sig

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