Research progress on the anti-tumor effect of oridonin / 国际中医中药杂志

Oridonin is one of the main anti-tumor active ingredients of Rabdosiae Rubescentis Herba. In the development process of a variety of malignant tumors, such as liver cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, colon cancer, etc, it has a significant inhibitory effect. Oridonin plays the rold of anti-tumor effect mainly by inhibiting tumor cell proliferation, inducing tumor cell apoptosis, inhibiting tumor cell invasion and migration, inducing tumor cell autophagy, reducing telomerase activity and reversing the drug resistance of the tumor cell.