Effect of baicalin on in vivo anti-virus / 中国中药杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>This study is about the in vivo antivirus effect of baicalin.</p><p><b>METHOD</b>Adopting in vivo experiment, we administered one group of mice 2 days before infected with influenza virus (A/FM/1/47) , while administer the other group with baicalin one day after infected, to observe the effect of baicalin in protecting and curing mice against influenza virus.</p><p><b>RESULT</b>Baicalin can obviously prolong the survival time of mice infected with influenza virus (A/FM/1/47) (P <0.01), eliminate the influenza virus in lung, reduce the hemagglutination tite and infectivity in pulmo, and reverse mice's pneumonic pathological changes.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Baicalin can obviously counteract influenza virus.</p>