Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Tripterygii wilfordii Radix, (TW) as a toxic herbal medicine, is the root of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F. , which commonly used in China for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune diseases, but its severe toxicity, particularly hepatotoxicity, significantly impacts its clinical application.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlycopeptides of traditional Chinese medicine(GTCM), as a type of natural products with important biological activities, have received increasing attention in recent years. These substances have a variety of pharmacological effects, including anti-tumor, immunomodulatory, neuroprotective, and anti-inflammatory effects. The extraction and separation processes directly affect the yield and purity of GTCM, and structural characterization is essential for probing into the properties and pharmacological mechanisms of glycopeptides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe food security of China as a big agricultural country is attracting increasing attention. With the progress in the traditional Chinese medicine industry, Chinese medicinal materials and their preparations have been gradually developed as agents for disease prevention and with antimicrobial and insecticidal functions in agriculture. Promoting pesticide innovation by interdisciplinary integration has become the trend in pesticide research globally.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccording to the Standard of Chinese Medicinal Materials of Shaanxi Province (2015 edition), is the dried stems and leaves of , which could activate blood and dispell blood stasis, clear the mind and remove annoyance. In this study, the dynamic absorption changes of phenolic acids (FS) and phenolic acids-flavonoids (FT) in rats after oral administration were studied by UPLC-TQ/MS/MS, to elucidate the pharmacokinetics of seven major bioactive components of the stem-leaf of . The results showed that the pharmacokinetic parameters of FS and FT were significantly different in normal rats and model rats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Xianlian Jiedu Decoction (XLJDD) has been used for the treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) for several decades because of the prominent efficacy of the prescription. Despite the clear clinical efficacy of XLJDD, the anti-CRC mechanism of action is still unclear.
Purpose: The inhibitory effect and mechanism of XLJDD on CRC were investigated in the azoxymethane/dextran sulfate sodium (AOM/DSS)-induced mice.
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi
October 2023
Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most common and serious complications of diabetes, which lacks effective treatment. Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix Et Rhizoma is one of the key compatible traditional Chinese medicine in the prescription for the treatment of DN. Salvianolic acid B and tanshinone IIA are two monomer active components with high content and clear structure in Salvia miltiorrhiza, which can effectively improve early (DN), respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt has become a common consensus that resource conservation and intensive recycling for improving resource utilization efficiency is an important way to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality(dual carbon). Traditonal Chinese medicine(TCM)resources as national strategic resources are the material basis and fundamental guarantee for the development of TCM industry and health services. However, the rapid growth of China's TCM industry and the continuous expansion and extension of the industrial chain have exposed the low efficiency of TCM resources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: 3-acetyl-11-keto-beta-boswellic acid (AKBA) and 11-keto-boswellic acid (KBA) are the main active components of frankincense as pentacyclic triterpenoids, which are designated by the European Pharmacopoeia 8.0 as the quality standard for the evaluation of Indian frankincense, 2-methoxy-8,12-epoxygermacra- 1(10),7,11-trien-6-one (MCS134) is a non-volatile sesquiterpene compound in myrrh.
Objective: In this paper, the absorption pharmacokinetics and metabolites of AKBA, KBA and MCS134 after frankincense, myrrh and their compatibility were analyzed, elaborated their absorption and metabolism mechanism and provided the ideas for the research on the bioactive components of frankincense and myrrh compatibility .
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi
March 2023
Bear bile powder (BBP) is widely used in the clinic and has a hypoglycemic effect, but its mechanism is not clear. In this study, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) rats induced by a high-sugar and high-fat diet combined with streptozotocin were given BBP, and biochemical indexes, pathological sections, metabonomics, intestinal microbiota (IM) and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) were determined. The results showed that BBP could reduce blood glucose, relieve inflammation, insulin resistance, and lipid metabolism disorder, and alleviate tissue damage of the liver, spleen, kidney, and pancreas in T2DM rats.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe inflorescence of Ramat., a well-known traditional Chinese herb, has been proved to have a certain inhibitory effect on some bacteria; however, its main components and acne bacteria inhibition effect remain to be elucidated. In this study, GC-MS was used to analyze the components of different flowering stages and different parts and to study the inhibitory effects of six essential oils on and and their alleviating effects on THP-1 cell inflammation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvid Based Complement Alternat Med
May 2022
, belonging to the family Apiaceae, is a well-known herbal medicine. The roots of are commonly used for the treatment of headache, toothache, abscess, furunculosis, and acne. However, little is known about their analgesic molecular mechanism underlying pain relief.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPresent studies have shown that Flos Chrysanthemi has anti-inflammatory and other effects and regulates intestinal function, while the chrysanthemum stem and leaf as non-medicinal parts of chrysanthemum have similar chemical components with chrysanthemum, but the activity and mechanisms are rarely elucidated. Therefore, this study used a DSS-induced zebrafish inflammatory bowel disease model to study the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects of chrysanthemum stem and leaf extracts. The results indicate that DSS induction leads to increased secretion of acidic mucin in the intestines of juvenile fish, enlargement of the intestinal lumen and the emergence of intestinal inflammation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Mulberry leaf has attracted much attention due to its excellent curative effect on diabetes and its complications, whether the combination of its effective components have protective and synergistic effect on diabetic nephropathy (DN) in vivo remain unclear.
Aim Of The Study: The aim of this study was to investigate the protective and synergistic effect of the combination (MAF and MAF) of mulberry leaf alkaloids (MA) and flavonoids extract (MF) on DN.
Materials And Methods: A step by step method consisted of network pharmacological prediction, animal in vivo validation and metabolic mechanism research was used to construct the multi-component-target-pathway network of mulberry leaf against DN.
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi
October 2021
Bile of animal(mainly chicken, pig, snake, cow, and bear) has long been used as medicine. As the major active components of bile, bile acids mainly include cholic acid, deoxycholic acid, chenodeoxycholic acid, ursodeoxycholic acid, and taurochenodeoxycholic acid. They interact with intestinal microorganisms in enterohepatic circulation, thereby playing an important part in nutrient absorption and allocation, metabolism regulation, and dynamic balance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Mulberry leaves have been used as traditional hypoglycemic medicine-food plant for thousand years in China. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) belongs to the category of XiaoKe. Presently, the research of mulberry leaf hypoglycemic and lipid-lowering direction is mature, but the curative effects of alkaloids, flavonoids, polysaccharides, and other bioactive ingredients and the related mechanism is still unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRed and yellow pigments are the major ingredients of safflower, often used to color food and cosmetics. Carthamin was the main component of red pigment and hydroxysafflor yellow A and anhydrosafflower yellow B were representative components of yellow pigment. Plant metabolomics and semi-quantitative analysis were used to analyze the changes of pigment composition during the blooming period, especially these characteristic components.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this paper, network pharmacology method and molecular docking technique were used to investigate the target genes of Olibanum and Myrrha compatibility and the possible mechanism of action in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis(RA). Our team obtained the main active components of Olibanum-Myrrha based on literatures study, relevant traditional Chinese medicine systematic pharmacological databases and literature retrieval, and made target prediction of the active components through SwissTargetPrediction database. At the same time, RA-related targets were collected through DrugBank, GeneCards and Therapeutic Target Database(TDD) databases; and VENNY 2.
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January 2021
This study aimed to explore the effect of Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, its stems and leaves on the diversity of intestinal microflora in rats with diabetic kidney injury. Diabetic rats model was established by feeding high glucose and high fat diet and 5% glucose solution with intraperitoneal injection of 30 mg·kg~(-1) streptozocin(STZ). The rats were randomly divided into normal group, model group, irbesartan control group, Huangkui Capsules control group, as well as low, middle and high dose groups of Sal-viae Miltiorrhizae Radix et Rhizoma, its stems and leaves.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEthnopharmacological Relevance: Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge. as a traditional Asian medicinal plant, roots and rhizomes (Danshen) are used to treat chronic hepatitis and coronary heart disease. In recent years, the medicinal value of S.
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