Research progress on Chinese materia medica improving human health by regulating intestinal flora / 中草药

ABSTRACT

More and more researches have shown that gut microbiota and human health are closely related, the development of some diseases are often accompanied by changes in gut normal microbiota. Hence, adjusting gut microbiota to make them normalization will become the mechanism to alleviate the certain disease. The development of Chinese materia medica (CMM) in China has a long history, with the dual effects of treating disease and maintaining good health. Currently, some studies have shown that CMM can also regulate the structure of gut microbiota during the treatment of certain disease, that made gut microbiota be the other mechanism of treating some disease by CMM in addition to gastrointestinal absorption. This review summarizes the relationship between gut microbiota and human health as well as the study of CMM via regulating gut microbiota to ameliorate some diseases in recent years, and provides a new theoretical basis of CMM treatment.