Material-herbology: An effective and safe strategy to eradicate lethal viral-bacterial pneumonia

Clinically, lethal viral-bacterial pneumonia is a severe threat to human health worldwide. Here, for the first time, we propose a “material-herbology” strategy, in which herbal medicines are utilized as materials or refreshed by using materialogy methods to enhance their therapeutic effect. Specifically, in this work, natural tea nanodots (TNDs, with an average size of ~3 nm) are made from several kinds of catechins extracted from Chinese black...