Acknowledgement
We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.co.kr) for English language editing. This study was supported by a grant of the Traditional Korean Medicine R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HB16C0044), and by the Daejeon University Research Grant (2022).
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