ABSTRACT
Dendrobii Caulis was traditionally used for promoting middle energizer, strengthening enterogastric function to light body weight, and prolonging life according to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica and many other previous ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine. The stomach and intestine tonic effect is still approved in modern society and broadly applied in clinic, whose efficacy has been featured as replenishing yin for maintaining gastric tonicity, enhancing the production of body fluid, and clearing away heat in Chinese Pharmacopoeia 2015. This review firstly made a summary of ancient literature on strengthening enterogastric function of Dendrobii Caulis, combined with literature of modern pharmacological research and clinical application from literature search system, such as CNKI, etc. It was summarized that Dendrobii Caulis had broad bioactivities in enterogastric system including gastric mucosa protection, digest-promotion, intestinal flora modulation, intestinal immunity regulation, stimulation of digestive juice secretion, etc. Furthermore, present situation of product development was analyzed based on patent and health product search system. This review could provide a reference for further development and clinical application of Dendrobii Caulis.