Progress on anti-inflammatory natural products / 药学实践杂志

ABSTRACT

Inflammation is the defense response of the living tissues possessing vascular system to stimulations of various injury factors ,which plays a vital role in the initiation and progression of many major diseases .Drugs used to treat inflammation in the clinical mainly include non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ,steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (SAIDs) and traditional Chinese medicine .As synthetic anti‐inflammatory drugs used in clinical currently have obvious adverse reactions , more and more attention were paid to seek anti‐inflammatory drugs from natural medicines .Reviews reported before mainly fo‐cus on anti‐inflammation mechanism of natural medicine ,however ,there are few reports on the summary of anti‐inflammatory natural products .Active natural products which were reported to possess anti‐inflammatory effects in recent years were summa‐rized in order to provide information for further study of anti‐inflammatory drugs research .