About the Authors

Chia-Yu Liu

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Chinese Medicine, Branch of Linsen and Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Jung Huang

Affiliation Department of Metabolism, Branch of Linsen and Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Lin-Huang Huang

Affiliation Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

I-Ju Chen

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Chinese Medicine, Branch of Linsen and Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jung-Peng Chiu

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Chinese Medicine, Branch of Linsen and Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Hua Hsu

owlherbs@yahoo.com.tw

Affiliations Institute of Traditional Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Chinese Medicine, Branch of Linsen and Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CYL CHH. Performed the experiments: CYL CJH CHH. Analyzed the data: CYL CHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LHH IJC JPC. Wrote the paper: CYL.