ABSTRACT
Huangqin Decoction is a classic recipe for treatment of diarrhea from Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Disease,and consists of Scutellaria baicalensis,Paeonia lactiflora,Glycyrrhiza uralensis and Ziziphus jujuba.Huangqin Decoction has been used for nearly 1800 years for the treatment of gastrointestinal ailments,including dysentery,diarrhea and so on.Treatment of gastrointestinal disease by traditional Chinese medicine is considered to be safer than western medicine.This paper presented a review ofpharmacodynamic material basis of Huangqin Decoction,its advances in treating ulcerative colitis and reduction of the gastrointestinal side effects arising from chemotherapy drugs according to related literature.It also reviewed the deficiencies in present research,outlined the future direction and provided reference for further study.