More cancer drugs are expected to be found in Chinese medicinal plants
More anti-cancer drugs are expected to be available from Chinese herbal medicines. After a number of plant-derived anti-cancer drugs have been discovered and turned into commodities, scientists are now looking for new anti-cancer drugs in Chinese herbal medicines with good effects and little side effects. Cancer drug research experts, the Chinese medicine research center, professor xu xu recently held in guangxi nanning international conference on pharmaceutical chemistry, new drug development, screening of anticancer drugs in recent years, technology has improved a lot, promoted the plant source of anticancer drug research, and China’s rich medicinal plant is for the development of anti-cancer drugs provides a unique source. “The search for new anti-cancer drugs from plants has become a favorite research area for scientists. Because until now only natural products have been able to find such novel structures and unique functions of compounds, “he said. Xu xu said, at present in the clinical application of anti-cancer drugs have been quite a number and new drugs appear constantly, but good potency and less side effects, no drug resistance, especially for the treatment of a greater threat to human life solid tumors, such as lung cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, brain cancer, ovarian cancer and other diseases drugs are still few, with the goal of the cancer is still far off. China has a long history of treating diseases with herbal medicines and many kinds of medicinal plants. The prospect of developing new anti-cancer drugs from these plants is very promising. In the 1960s, the scientist isolated a special anti-cancer ingredient, camptothecin, from the bark and fruit of the Chinese plant xishu. The anticancer drugs developed with camptothecin are still used in China. Camptothecin can treat both rapidly growing tumors and slow-growing solid tumors. In the United States, research continues to develop new anti-cancer drugs using camptothecin. The world health organization (who) has targeted the development of camptothecin derivatives as a major anticancer drug. According to xu, so far, scientists have researched and developed new anticancer drugs from Chinese medicinal plants, such as paclitaxel anti-cancer drugs, camptothecin anti-cancer drugs, ghost poisons derivatives, and tripterygotenol compounds. In addition, scientists have also developed a variety of cancer drugs from ginseng, warm turmeric, semen coix, garlic and other traditional Chinese medicines. In recent years, pc-es, an American cancer drug, whose main extracts include panax notoginseng, ganoderma lucidum, liquorice, flavescens, rubescens, chrysanthemum, and cedarwood fruit, has been made into capsules as a nutritional supplement. Xu said that in recent years, plant medicine has been gradually accepted by countries. In China, new drug review and approval has become increasingly rigorous and in line with international standards. The development of plant – derived anticancer drugs has broad prospects. With a long history of traditional Chinese medicine and more than 12,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, scientists can use modern scientific methods to find new drugs to treat solid tumors, he said. Or to China’s rich resources such as camptothecin, vincristine as lead compounds to develop new anti-cancer drugs. Cancer is one of the malignant diseases that threaten human life. The number of cancer deaths worldwide is over 5 million each year. In China, over 1.6 million new cancer patients are found every year, and over 1.3 million people die. Statement: we are honored to provide you with health services. This site is only for reference, all diagnosis and treatment should follow the guidance of the doctor
