Will ginsenoside Rc act as adjuvant treatment for dementia?
Journal Title: Traditional Medicine Research - Year 2021, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Ginseng is well-known traditional medicine especially in Asian countries. Ginseng was listed in 120 safety medicines of the Chinese book, Shennong’s Classic of Materia Medica (written in the Eastern Han Dynasty; 25–220 C.E.). In Panax species several components like ginsenosides, triterpene saponins, polyacetylenes, polysaccharides, phenolics, alkaloids, lignans and peptides are contained. Yang et al. reviewed that 257 typical dammarane-type triterpenes, ginsenosides were isolated from Panax species and divided into protopanaxadiol and protopanaxatriol types having sugars attached to hydroxyl group at C-3 and C-20 or at C-6 and C-20, respectively. Ginsenoside Rc is a protopanaxadiol type ginsenoside such as a target compound taken up in the corresponding paper.
Authors and Affiliations
Yukihiro Shoyama
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP693629
- DOI 10.12032/TMR20210301222
- Views 142
- Downloads 0
Application of monoclonal antibody against ginsenoside in ginseng research: a review
Panax genus belonging to a family of Araliaceae grow in Asia (9 species) and in North America (2 species). Especially Panax ginseng was listed in Chinese medical book, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica approximately 2...
Toxicological advances of traditional medicine in 2020
There were many researches concerning toxicology of traditional medicine and active natural products during the past 12 months. This annual toxicology review summarized different toxic analysis methods of traditional med...
Prescribing Chinese patent medicines without traditional Chinese medicine training is now banned in China
On July 1, 2019, the website of the National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China issued the “Notice on printing and distributing the first batch of national key monitoring and rational drugs (chemicals an...
Medicinal plant-based saponins targeting COVID-19 Mpro in silico
Background: Recently, the Chinese scientists Liu et al. demonstrated a crystallized form of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 main protease (Mpro), the best target of the drug, which was published in Nature...
Effects of processing technology on essential oil and pharmacological action of frankincense
Background: According to the traditional Chinese medicine theory, the common processing methods for Ruxiang (frankincense) include stir-frying processing and vinegar processing. Methods: With network pharmacology and the...