Cytotoxicity, antiviral and antimicrobial activities of alkaloids, flavonoids, and phenolic acids
Berrın Özçelık, Murat Kartal, İlkay Erdoğan Orhan · 11 Mar 2011
OBJECTIVE: Some natural products consisting of the alkaloids yohimbine and vincamine (indole-type), scopolamine and atropine (tropane-type), colchicine (tropolone-type), allantoin (imidazolidine-type), trigonelline (pyridine-type) as well as octopamine, synephrine, and capsaicin (exocyclic amine-type); the flavonoid derivatives quercetin, apigenin, genistein, naringin, silymarin, and silibinin; and the phenolic acids namely gallic acid, caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, and quinic acid,…
The Genus<i>Artemisia</i>: A Comprehensive Review
Kundan Singh Bora, Anupam Sharma · 3 Aug 2010
CONTEXT: Medicinal plants are nature's gift to human beings to make disease free healthy life, and play a vital role to preserve our health. They are believed to be much safer and proven elixir in the treatment of various ailments. The genus Artemisia (Astraceae) consists of about 500 species, occurring throughout the world. The present…
A comprehensive review on phytochemistry, pharmacology, and flavonoid biosynthesis of<i>Scutellaria baicalensis</i>
Zilong Wang, Shuang Wang, Yi Kuang et al. · 1 Jan 2018
CONTEXT: Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Lamiaceae) is a popular medicinal plant. Its roots are used as the famous traditional Chinese medicine Huang-Qin, which is recorded in Chinese Pharmacopoeia, European Pharmacopoeia, and British Pharmacopoeia. OBJECTIVE: This review comprehensively summarizes research progress in phytochemistry, pharmacology, and flavonoid biosynthesis of S. baicalensis. METHODS: English and Chinese literature from 1973…
Coptidis Rhizoma: a comprehensive review of its traditional uses, botany, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology
Jin Wang, Lin Wang, Guanhua Lou et al. · 1 Jan 2019
CONTEXT: Coptidis rhizome (CR), also known as Huanglian in Chinese, is the rhizome of Coptis chinensis Franch., C. deltoidea C.Y. Cheng et Hsiao, or C. teeta Wall (Ranunculaceae). It has been widely used to treat bacillary dysentery, diabetes, pertussis, sore throat, aphtha, and eczema in China. OBJECTIVES: The present paper reviews the latest advances of…
The anti-inflammatory activity of licorice, a widely used Chinese herb
Rui Yang, Bochuan Yuan, Yongsheng Ma et al. · 21 Sep 2016
CONTEXT: Increasing incidence and impact of inflammatory diseases have encouraged the search of new pharmacological strategies to face them. Licorice has been used to treat inflammatory diseases since ancient times in China. OBJECTIVE: To summarize the current knowledge on anti-inflammatory properties and mechanisms of compounds isolated from licorice, to introduce the traditional use, modern clinical…
