Natural products for treatment of premature ovarian failure: a narrative review.

Premature ovarian failure (POF) is a female reproductive system disease caused by many factors and systems, which has seriously affected the quality of life of women of childbearing age. Clinically, the disease is difficult to treat while its incidence rate shows an increasing trend. In recent years, natural products used as multi-pathway, multi-target and efficient drugs, have become the focus of many research and clinical studies in China and abroad, and the effect of phytochemicals derived from edible plants and Chinese medicine herbs on POF were investigated in several papers. Using "premature ovarian failure" or "ovary" and related natural products as keywords, we retrieved and reviewed research articles from China National Knowledge Infrastructure Database, Wanfang, PubMed, Web of Science and other literature databases. Up to October, 2021, natural compounds with prophylactic or interference inhibition effects on POF mainly included flavonoids, polysaccharides, saponins, and polyphenols. Their effect on POF and ovarian function was closely related to their antioxidant, antiapoptotic, antiaging, immunoregulatory and estrogen-like activities.

Evaluate of international competitiveness of Chinese materia medica industrialization in China / 中草药

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the treasure of the Chinese nation civilization. Along with China acceding to WTO, the grandness of international natural drug market and its accepting of Chinese materia medica (CMM), CMM industrialization in China gets the opportunity growing quickly. But it is faced with many challenges from all over the world.This article introduces the theory of industria-lization competitiveness, which was put forward by Pro. Michael E. Porter, Harvard University, and applied “diamond model” theory to evaluating the international competitiveness of the CMM industrialization of China. The analysis will provide the base for establishing the strategy for the development of the CMM industrialization in China and upgrading its international competitiveness.