West meets east: open up a dialogue on phytomedicine

Chinese Medicine

Shengpeng Wang¹  Weijie Chen¹  Hongyi Li¹  Hao Hu¹  Xiuzhu Li¹  Thomas Efferth²  Milen I. Georgiev³  Xu Wu⁴  Jesus Simal-Gandara⁵ 

[1] Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao SAR, China;Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany;Laboratory of Metabolomics, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China;Nutrition and Bromatology Group, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Vigo-Ourense Campus, 32004, Ourense, Spain;

关键词: Phytomedicine;    Chinese medicine;    Rhodiola;    Seabuckthorn;    Fenugreek;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13020-021-00467-6

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The desire to extend the wisdom of traditional health systems has motivated the trade of many phytomedicine on a global scale for centuries, especially some dietary herbs, making a great overlap exits between western and eastern phytomedicine. Despite the communication since ancient times, a key disconnect still exists in the dialog among western and eastern herbal researchers. There is very little systematic effort to tap into the friction and fusion of eastern and western wisdom in utilizing phytomedicine. In this review, we analyzed the similarities and differences of three representative phytomedicine, namely Rhodiola, seabuckthorn, and fenugreek, aiming to open up new horizons in developing novel health products by integrating the wisdom of the east and the west.

【 授权许可】

CC BY