Progress in Research of Clinopodii Herba / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Clinopodii Herba is a type of traditional folk medicine. Modern research showed that Clinopodii Herba contains triterpenes and its saponins, flavones, volatile oil, phenylpropanoids and other chemical components. It has many pharmacological activities such as hemostasis, antibiosis, hypoglycemic activity, anti-oxidation, and anti-in-flammation. The main clinical application of Clinopodii Herba is for the treatment of various types of bleeding. After searching literatures on Clinopodii Herba for the recent 20 years, this article reviewed the chemical components, pharmacological activities, clinical application and research condition of Clinopodii Herba in order to provide further references for this medicine.