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A research team, led by Professor Lin Xiang (first right) and Professor Shen Jiangang (second right), has discovered that combining the active ingredient of the Chinese medicine Astragalus membranaceus (huang qi) with the conventional medication, methotrexate (MTX), can effectively reduce chronic inflammation in autoimmune diseases, providing a new solution to address the drug resistance and side effects caused by long-term medication.

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