Research Progress in Active Constituents of Polysaccharides and Flavones from Herba Hedyotis Diffusae / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

Herba Hedyotis Diffusae has many kinds of pharmacological activities such as anti-tumor, antioxidant, immune regulation and so on. This article collected and reported the related literature at home and abroad in recent years, found that pharmacological active ingredients of Herba Hedyotis Diffusae show consistency of polysaccharides and flavonoids to varying degrees, and summarized the pharmacological effects and extraction and purification process. The author believed that, the study about Herba Hedyotis Diffusae has made relatively great achievements, but the research mainly focused on polysaccharides or flavonoids, and efficacy of Herba Hedyotis Diffusae was not in enough in-depth exploration. The indicator of extraction and purification process is relatively single. This study estimated the mechanism of Herba Hedyotis Diffusae from the aspects of absorption and metabolism of intestinal flora and relationship between medicine structure and exert efficacy, hoping to optimize the extracting processes by multiple indexes, and provided references for further exploitation and utilization of Herba Hedyotis Diffusae.