Remedy Series Ancient Medicines for Modern Illness Reviews
Molecules. 2016 May; 21(5): 559.
The Traditional Medicine and Mod Medicine from Natural Products
Haidan Yuan
1College of Pharmacy, Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, People's republic of china; nc.ude.uby@nauydh (H.Y.); moc.361@8193naiqnaiq (Q.M.); nc.ude.uby@1260104102 (L.Y.)
2Key Laboratory of Natural Resources of Changbai Mountain and Functional Molecules, Ministry of Education, Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, China
Guangchun Piao
1College of Pharmacy, Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, Prc; nc.ude.uby@nauydh (H.Y.); moc.361@8193naiqnaiq (Q.M.); nc.ude.uby@1260104102 (L.Y.)
2Key Laboratory of Natural Resources of Changbai Mountain and Functional Molecules, Ministry of Didactics, Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, China
Derek J. McPhee, Academic Editor
Received 2016 Mar 19; Accepted 2016 April 25.
Abstruse
Natural products and traditional medicines are of bully importance. Such forms of medicine as traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, Kampo, traditional Korean medicine, and Unani have been skillful in some areas of the globe and have blossomed into orderly-regulated systems of medicine. This study aims to review the literature on the relationship amid natural products, traditional medicines, and modern medicine, and to explore the possible concepts and methodologies from natural products and traditional medicines to farther develop drug discovery. The unique characteristics of theory, application, current role or status, and modern research of eight kinds of traditional medicine systems are summarized in this study. Although just a tiny fraction of the existing found species take been scientifically researched for bioactivities since 1805, when the first pharmacologically-active compound morphine was isolated from opium, natural products and traditional medicines have already made fruitful contributions for modernistic medicine. When used to develop new drugs, natural products and traditional medicines have their incomparable advantages, such as abundant clinical experiences, and their unique diversity of chemical structures and biological activities.
Keywords: natural products, traditional medicines, drug discovery, traditional uses, chemodiversity
one. Introduction
Since prehistoric times, humans have used natural products, such as plants, animals, microorganisms, and marine organisms, in medicines to alleviate and treat diseases. According to fossil records, the homo use of plants as medicines may be traced back at least 60,000 years [1,2]. The utilise of natural products every bit medicines must, of form, take presented a tremendous challenge to early humans. It is highly probable that when seeking food, early on humans often consumed poisonous plants, which led to vomiting, diarrhea, coma, or other toxic reactions—perhaps even death. Nonetheless, in this way, early humans were able to develop knowledge nigh edible materials and natural medicines [3]. Subsequently, humans invented fire, learned how to brand alcohol, developed religions, and made technological breakthroughs, and they learned how to develop new drugs.
Traditional medicines (TMs) make use of natural products and are of great importance. Such forms of medicine equally traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Ayurveda, Kampo, traditional Korean medicine (TKM), and Unani employ natural products and have been skilful all over the world for hundreds or even thousands of years, and they have blossomed into orderly-regulated systems of medicine. In their various forms, they may have sure defects, but they are still a valuable repository of man knowledge [2,four].
In the case of China, Western medicine was introduced in the sixteenth century, but it did not undergo whatsoever evolution until the nineteenth century. Before that, TCM was the ascendant form of medical intendance in the state [5]. Now TCM still plays an important role in China, and it is constantly being developed. TCM is based on 5000 years of medical practice and experience, and is rich in data from "clinical experiments" which guarantee its effectiveness and efficacy. It has developed techniques with respect to such areas as right dosage, methods of preparing and processing materials, and the appropriate fourth dimension to collect the various medicinal parts of plants. It is notable that in that location is increasing convergence between TCM and modern medicine. With the evolution of mod technology, it has become possible to determine the pharmacology and mechanisms of activeness of many Chinese herbs, and TCM has get comprehensible in terms of mod medicine [vi,vii,8,nine]. With advances in the theoretical background, therapeutic principles, associated technologies, and understanding of the life sciences, a clearer agreement of the active compounds of TCM has get possible [five].
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the era of "modern" drugs began. In 1805, the first pharmacologically-active compound morphine was isolated past a immature German pharmacist, Friedrich Sertürner, from the opium institute [10,11]. Subsequently, endless active compounds take been separated from natural products. Among them, some follow their traditional uses and the others do not. Later, the development of synthetic techniques led to a significant reduction in the importance of natural products, and there were concerns that the use of some natural products for medicinal purposes might be completely banned. However, natural products are of import for the development of new drugs, and these products have been in abiding utilise. Some type of medicines, such as anticancer, antihypertensive, and antimigraine medication, have benefited profoundly from natural products [x,12].
The development of new drugs relying purely on modernistic technology appears to be reaching something of a limit. In developing new drugs, the pharmaceutical industry has tended to adopt loftier-throughput synthesis and combinatorial chemistry-based drug development since the 1980s; however, the considerable efforts made in this direction have not resulted in the expected drug productivity. Some large pharmaceutical companies are facing corking challenges to develop new products. Over the by dozen years, increasing attention has accordingly been paid to natural products in the search for novel drugs in combination with new technology, such as high-throughput selection [13,14].
Natural products, which take evolved over millions of years, accept a unique chemical diversity, which results in diversity in their biological activities and drug-similar properties. Those products have become one of the most important resource for developing new lead compounds and scaffolds. Natural products will undergo continual utilise toward meeting the urgent demand to develop effective drugs, and they will play a leading part in the discovery of drugs for treating human diseases, peculiarly disquisitional diseases [xv].
2. Natural Products
Natural products have a wide range of variety of multi-dimensional chemic structures; in the meantime, the utility of natural products as biological function modifiers has also won considerable attention. Afterward, they take been successfully employed in the discovery of new drugs and have exerted a far-reaching bear upon on chemicobiology [16,17,eighteen]. From the past century, the high structural diversity of natural products have been realized from the perspective of physical chemistry. Their efficacy is related to the complexity of their well-organized three-dimensional chemical and steric properties, which offer many advantages in terms of efficiency and selectivity of molecular targets. Equally a successful example of drug evolution from natural products, artemisinin and its analogs are before long in wide use for the anti-malaria treatment. This shows how research using natural products has fabricated a significant contribution in drug evolution [19,xx].
Amongst anticancer drugs canonical in the time frame of about 1940–2002, approximately 54% were derived natural products or drugs inspired from noesis related to such. For instance, the Vinca alkaloids from Catharanthus roseus, and the terpene paclitaxel from Taxus baccata, are among successful anticancer drugs originally derived from plants [12,21]. During the period between 1981 and 2002, the awarding of natural products in the development of new drugs—especially in the search for novel chemic structures—showed conspicuous success. In that 22-twelvemonth fourth dimension frame, drugs derived from natural products have been pregnant. That is especially truthful in the instance of antihypertensives, where almost 64% of newly-synthesized drugs have their origins in natural product structures [12].
Considering their incomparable chemical diversity and novel mechanisms of activeness, natural products have continued to play a pivotal role in many drug development and research programs. With time, those natural products accept undergone interesting and meaningful developments in their ability to interact with numerous, varied biological targets, and some accept become the nigh important drugs in wellness care system [14,22,23]. For instance, plants, microorganisms, and animals manufacture small molecules, which have played a major role in drug discovery. Among 69 small-molecule new drugs canonical from 2005 to 2007 worldwide, 13 were natural products or originated from natural products, which underlines the importance of such products in drug research and development [12,13].
Over the past fifty years, there has been a nifty diversity of new drugs adult using loftier-throughput screening methods and combinatorial chemistry; however, natural products and their derived compounds have continued to be highly-important components in pharmacopoeias. Of the reckoned 250,000–500,000 existing found species, only a tiny proportion has been scientifically researched for bioactivities [13]. Therefore, in that location is keen potential for time to come discoveries from plants and other natural products which, thus, offer huge potential in deriving useful information about novel chemical structures and their new types of activity related to new drug development.
3. Traditional Medicines
TM is the oldest form of health care in the world and is used in the prevention, and treatment of concrete and mental illnesses. Different societies historically developed various useful healing methods to gainsay a variety of wellness- and life-threatening diseases. TM is besides variously known as complementary and alternative, or indigenous medicine, and it still plays a key role in many countries today [24,25].
The medicaments used in TM are mostly derived from natural products. In TM, "clinical trials" have been conducted since ancient times. In the case of TCM, considerable experience and advances take been accumulated and developed over the past thousands of years with respect to methods of grooming, selection of herbs, identification of medicinal materials, and the best time for obtaining various different plants. Appropriate processing and dose regulation are urgently needed in TCM to improve drug efficacy and reduce drug toxicity. Considerable amounts of data have been acquired through clinical experiments, and in this way TM has assisted in the development of mod drugs. Through its use of natural products, TM offers merits over other forms of medicine in such areas every bit the following: discovery of lead compounds and drug candidates; examining drug-like activeness; and exploring physicochemical, biochemical, pharmacokinetic, and toxicological characteristics. If whatever form of TM is applied successfully, it may surprisingly help in the development of new drugs, thereby resulting in many benefits, such equally significant cost reductions.
TCM is at present an inseparable office of the Chinese public health system. In recent years, TCM has gradually gained considerable approval as a complementary or alternative medicine in Western countries. Chinese herbal medicine, which is the most of import component of TCM, is currently used in the wellness intendance of an estimated 1.five billion people worldwide [26,27]. It should be noted that in TCM, several herbs and ingredients are combined co-ordinate to strict rules to course prescriptions, which are referred to as formulas (fang ji in Chinese). Commonly, a archetype formula is composed of iv elements—the "monarch", "government minister", "banana", and "retainer"—according to their different roles in the formula, each of which consists of ane to several drugs. Ideally, these drugs constitute an organic group to produce the desired therapeutic effect and reduce agin reactions [28].
Kampo is the TM of Japan. Betwixt the 5th and sixth centuries, TCM was introduced to Japan from Red china; since then, TCM has been significantly altered and adjusted by Japanese practitioners to meet their item circumstances and gradually evolved into Kampo [29]. A contempo report has plant that some physicians in Japan employ Kampo medicines in their daily practice—sometimes equally the preferred medication [29,30,31]. Together with radiotherapy or chemotherapy, some Japanese physicians frequently utilize Kampo medicines in treating cancer patients. This indicates how mod Western medicine can be well integrated with TM [30,32]. As the use of Kampo continues to rise in conjunction with Western medicine, there is growing realization of the urgent need to study the interactions between these two types of medicines [28].
Unani is an ancient Greek holistic medical arrangement with a history that can be traced back 2500 years [33]. Since the mid-1970s, when the WHO began to identify a greater focus on TM, Unani has attracted considerable attention all over the world, especially in India, where it has been integrated into the national health care system [34].
It was reckoned past WHO that a large quantity of people in the world even so depend on TMs for health care [35]. The current condition of TM differs in dissimilar countries. In 2012, the full value of the TCM manufacture was equivalent to around i-third of the total for China'southward pharmaceutical industry [36]. It has been adamant that 80% of the population in Africa makes employ of TM—either alone or in conjunction with conventional medicine [37]. By contrast, traditional Aboriginal medicine in Australia is in danger of vanishing owing to the prevalence of conventional medicine [38]. In the case of Israel with its ethnic multifariousness, modern medicine is prevailing, and TM is failing [39]. Many practitioners of Western medical science think such TM systems every bit being short of reliability; however, they are adopted by the majority of people in the earth [35]. It is possible to produce remarkable synergy and yield bully benefits in developing reformed medicines and new drugs by connecting powerful mod scientific techniques and methods with the reasonable ethnobotanical and ethnomedical experiences of TM. Characteristics of several TM systems are summarized in Tabular array 1.
Table one
Characteristics of several of import traditional medicine systems.
| Proper noun | Origin and Developing Nation | Characteristics of Theory or Application | Current Function or Status | Modern Research |
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| Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) [26,28,40,41,42,43] |
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| Ayurveda [35,44] |
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| Unani medicine [33,34,45,46] |
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| Kampo (traditional Japanese medicine) [30,47] |
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| Traditional Korean medicine (TKM), Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM) [42,48,49,50] |
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| Traditional Ancient medicine [38,50] |
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| Traditional medicine in Africa [25,37,38,51] |
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| Russian herbal medicine [52] |
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4. Drugs Adult from Traditional Medicines that Follow the Traditional Uses
TM is too valuable to be ignored in the research and evolution of modernistic drugs. Though it has an enigmatic grapheme, there are as well wide contexts for its use in terms of non-Western medical technology or activities. In TM, a unmarried herb or formula may contain many phytochemical constituents, such as alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, etc. By and large speaking, these chemicals role alone or in conjunction with 1 another to produce the desired pharmacological upshot [35]. It is notable that a lot of plant-originated drugs in clinical medicine today were derived from TM [21]. In improver, it has been demonstrated that the many valuable drugs derived from plants were discovered through their application in TM [2].
Almost 20 years ago, a thorough investigation of the pharmacopoeias of developed and developing nations and the associated world scientific literature was conducted every bit role of the WHO's TM Program. The aim of that report was to decide whether TM really had inspired modern drug discoveries and whether there was whatever correlation between the current apply of diverse compounds and their awarding in TM. The report focused on diverse compounds used in drugs derived from plants in different countries, and it established that TM had indeed played a significant role in developing constructive new drugs. That study focused on 122 compounds, 80% of which were plant to be related to pharmaceutical effects in folk medicine, and it was determined that these compounds originated from 94 found species [2].
The acceptability, convenience, and accessibility of TMs have been, and will be, helpful for new drug research [thirteen]. Equally noted to a higher place, artemisinin and other antimalarial drugs are examples of modern drugs based on TMs. Early in China's Jin Dynasty, Physician Hong Ge (AD 284–384) recorded the efficacy and related details of Artemisia annua L. in treating malaria in his volume Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang. That is the earliest record anywhere of treating malaria with Artemisia annua L., and information technology shows that Chinese physicians 1700 years ago had reached a sophisticated level of medical treatment [53,54].
Artemisinin is known as qinghaosu in Chinese, and its study has made significant progress, including the synthesis of new artemisinin analogs and derivatives, and research efforts into the biological activities and related mechanisms. Every bit a outcome, artemisinin, equally well as its constructive derivatives, are extensively applied throughout the world as new-type anti-malarial drugs [55].
The discovery of artemisinin can be traced back to the 1960s, when tropical malaria was a serious problem during the Vietnam War. North Vietnam requested China to assistance tackle the malaria problem. The Chinese authorities approved a project for malaria control and drug enquiry in 1967. The research group made its investigations and carried out a large-calibration search of the literature on the bailiwick. Equally part of the phytochemical and pharmacological research effort, a lot of Chinese herbal medicines were screened and investigated with respect to their toxicity or efficacy. Somewhen artemisinin was derived from Artemisia annua Fifty. in 1972 [53,55,56]. Artemisinin is quite dissimilar from previously-used antimalarial drugs, such every bit chloroquine, in that it has a novel structure, with a sesquiterpene lactone bearing a peroxy group, and it does not contain nitrogen heterocycles. Compared with previous antimalarial drugs, artemisinin has the merit of high efficiency, quick effect, and low toxicity. Artemisinin is effective in treating various forms of malaria, such as falciparum and cerebral malaria, which are resistant to chloroquine, and its mechanism of action is unlike from traditional antimalarial drugs. The discovery of artemisinin was a bully success for TCM at a special flow in Cathay'south history, and information technology was achieved through a well-organized squad of hundreds of researchers [56]. Since that breakthrough, scientists take conducted comprehensive research in such areas as pharmaceutical chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry, and chemic biology. Through etherification and esterification, they have produced a serial of well-known new drugs, such as artemether and artesunate. Those drugs have improved efficacy and solubility, which are of do good for patients receiving oral or intravenous assistants and have overcome the high parasite recrudescence rate and low solubility of artemisinin [55,56,57]. About chiefly, one of these scientists, Youyou Tu, was merely awarded the 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize for her significant devotion in discovering artemisinin.
The discovery of artemisinin illustrates how TCM constitutes a swell store of knowledge most natural products, such as Chinese herbs, and holds much future hope. The discovery of successful new drugs can proceed by profiting from this cognition [56]. Some drugs or compounds isolated from Chinese herbal medicines which follow the ethnomedical uses are summarized in Table two.
Table 2
Some drugs or compounds isolated from Chinese herbal medicines which follow the traditional uses.
| Plant Origin | Drugs or Compounds | Chemical Structures | Effects or Indications | Ancient Chinese Literature Recording Chinese Herbal Medicines with Aforementioned Effects and the Published Fourth dimension |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artemisia annua L. [53,55] | Artemisinin |  | Anti-malarial | Zhou Hou Bei Ji Fang (Jin Danasty, AD 266–420) |
| Corydalis yanhusuo West.T.Wang [58,59] | Tetrahydropalmatine |  | Analgesic | Lei Gong Pao Zhi Lun (Nanchao Vocal Dynasty, AD 420–479) |
| Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort. [60] | Tetramethyl-pyrazine |  | Mmyocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, Advert 25–220) |
| Paeonia lactiflora Drapery. [61,62] | Paeoniflorin |  | Analgesic | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, AD 25–220) |
| Epimedium brevicornum Maxim. [63,64] | Icariin |  | Osteoporosis | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, AD 25–220) |
| Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi [65] | Puerarin |  | Diabetes | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, Advertising 25–220) |
| Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge [66,67] | Salvianolic acrid B |  | Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, Advert 25–220) |
| Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Jacks. [68] | Rhynchophy-lline |  | Antihypertensive | Ming Yi Bie Lu (Nanchao Liang Dynasty, Advert 502–557) |
| Saussurea lappa (Decne.) C.B. Clarke [69] | Costunolide |  | Anti-gastric ulcer, antispasmodic | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, AD 25–220) |
| Gastrodia dlata Bl. [70,71] | Gastrodin |  | Anti-convulsion, analgesic | Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Donghan Dynasty, AD 25–220) |
5. Drugs Adult from Natural Products
In clinical practice in China in the 1960s, it was found that Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill.—a traditional Chinese herb—had obvious enzyme-reducing and hepatoprotective furnishings. Chinese scientists and so began isolating the chemical constituents of S. chinensis. In the subsequent total chemic synthesis and pharmacodynamic report of schisandrin C (which is one of the compounds of S. chinensis), researchers found that the intermediate compound bifendate had a stronger pharmacological activeness and that the cost of training was low. They discovered that it may be used to lower the enzyme content in the handling of hepatitis B virus [57].
Since the stop of the 1980s, chemists and pharmacologists at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences have been closely cooperating in studying the structure and activity relationships of bifendate and its analogs. As function of their inquiry, a serial of novel derivatives were synthesized. Afterwards screening using a number of chemical and pharmaceutical liver injury models, information technology was institute that the hepatoprotective activities of the derivatives were closely related to the locations of dimethylenedioxy in two benzene rings, the length of the side-chain carboxylic acrid, and the heterocycle betwixt the 2 benzene rings. Finally, a new compound, bicyclol—formulated as four,4″-dimethoxy-5,vi,5′,vi′-bis(methylene-dioxy)-2-hydroxy-methyl-2′-methoxycarbonyl biphenyl—was designed and synthesized. Bicyclol had greater in vivo assimilation, and better bioavailability and biological activity, than bifendate owing to the introduction of the 6-hydroxymethyl group and 6′-carbomethoxy in the side concatenation [72]. Pharmacological results of bicyclol showed antifibrotic and hepatoprotective furnishings confronting liver injury and liver fibrosis induced past CCl4 or other hepatotoxins in mice and rats; it besides exhibited the antihepatitis virus outcome in the 2.2.15 prison cell line and duck model with viral hepatitis [73,74].
In clinical trials, it was institute that the increased levels of serum alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase were dramatically decreased past bicyclol. Information technology was also establish that bicyclol prohibited hepatitis B virus replication in chronic hepatitis B patients [75]. Compared with previous anti-hepatitis drugs, bicyclol exhibited a more consolidated upshot after the drug was discontinued; the rebound rate was depression, with fewer adverse reactions and higher oral bioavailability [76]. Based on previous studies in such areas as synthesis, pharmacology, toxicology, pharmacokinetics, preparation, and quality control, researchers adamant that the new antihepatitis drug bicyclol offered significant hepatoprotective effects, antihepatitis virus activity, and fewer adverse reactions [57]. Bicyclol has been approved for the treatment of chronic viral hepatitis in China since 2004 [73]. Bicyclol has contained intellectual property rights and belongs to Class 1 of Mainland china'south New Chemical Drug. The drug is i of the anti-inflammatory and hepatoprotective drugs recommended by the "Guidelines on Liver Disease Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment" in China, and it has been exported to many countries [57,76].
In the aforementioned decade in which Chinese scientists found that S. chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. had obvious enzyme-reducing and hepatoprotective furnishings, a program screening for cancer drugs from plants began in 1960 at the National Cancer Establish in the U.s.a.. Neither China nor the United States knew what the other was doing in this area. In that US project, 650 plant samples were gathered in three states. Subsequently the initial cytotoxicity tests were carried out using rough extracts, Taxus brevifolia was called for farther research.
Taxol was isolated equally a new compound from T. Brevifolia. Taxol has an unusual chemic structure and radically distinctive mechanism of action and was adult every bit a novel anticancer drug in subsequent decades. Nevertheless, the drug attracted niggling attention during the early on stage of its development because of its poor solubility in h2o, low yield from natural products, and other disadvantages, particularly by the medical social club. The story of Taxol involved many events that nearly resulted in discontinuation of the research. Fortunately, it underwent extraction, isolation, and structural determination; its activity against solid tumors and its mechanism of action were established, and information technology became developed for clinical exercise. Finally, Taxol was approved by the U.s.a. Food and Drug Administration for treating ovarian cancer in 1992—21 years later the initial breakthrough newspaper recording its isolation and structural identification. Taxol has remained a basic drug for treating various forms of cancer, and is yet being used to develop new synergistic groups of anticancer drugs [77,78,79]. Some drugs or compounds isolated or developed from natural products are summarized in Table 3.
Table 3
Some drugs or compounds isolated or developed from natural products.
| Origin (Plant, etc.) | Drugs or Compounds | Chemical Structures | Effects or Indication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. [55,72,73,74,75,76] | Schisandrin C, bicyclol, bifendate |  | Hepatoprotective, anti-hepatitis B virus |
| bicyclol | |||
| Taxus brevifolia [77,78,79,fourscore] | Taxol, docetaxel |  | Antitumor |
| taxol | |||
| Aspergillus terreus [81] | Lovastatin |  | Hyperlipoidemia |
| Camptotheca acuminata Decne. [1] | Camptothecin, irinotecan and topotecan |  | Antitumor |
| camptothecin | |||
| Gimkgo biloba L. [82] | Ginkgolide B |  | Cerebral infarction |
| Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. [83] | Stilbene glycoside |  | Vascular dementia |
| Ranunculus ternatus hunb. [84,85] | Ternatolide |  | Anti-tuberculosis |
| Curcuma longa L. [86] | Curcumin |  | Hypolipidemic |
| Ophiopogon japonicus (L.f.) Ker-Gawl. [87] | Polysaccharide MDG-1 |  | Anti-myocardial jail cell injury |
| Chromobacterium violaceum [88] | Romidepsin |  | Antitumor |
6. Word
Human history is besides the history of medicines used to treat and prevent various diseases. To counter the danger from serious illnesses and to guarantee survival of the species, it is necessary to continually produce ameliorate drugs. With fourth dimension, the use of these natural products as TM increased. Modernistic medicine has benefited considerably from TM in ii areas: drugs with similar furnishings and drugs with unlike effects from those of TM. From the history of drug evolution, information technology is evident that many drugs accept been derived as a issue of inspiration from TM.
The awarding of, and research into, natural products are far from satisfactory. A number of problems need to exist addressed in the future. For case, synergistic effects may be amidst the compounds that occur in natural products; all the same, the modes and mechanisms of action are seldom very clear. It is, therefore, necessary to fill employ of such synergetic effects toward improving the effectiveness of drugs. Withal, information technology is likewise requisite that any adverse effects of natural products be properly reduced to meet safety standards.
With the riches of modernistic technology, such equally in synthesis, fermentation, pharmacology, pharmacodynamics—together with biological variety, chemodiversity, and smashing breakthroughs in evolutionary techniques or concepts—combined with a wealth of knowledge about natural products, it will be possible to institute a large compound library for drug screening [89]. This will raise the possibilities for individual treatment and prevention of disease. Humankind needs to learn more than from natural products and traditional medicines.
In social club to further promote the development of modernistic medical research on natural products, humans have to confront to various difficulties and challenges. Valuable information on natural products and TMs is mixed in a large number of documents, data, and useless rumors. Furthermore, i plant or formula of natural products and TMs contains a large number of chemic constituents, including active, invalid, and possible synergistic components. Therefore, peachy effort should be made at first to remove the dross and have the essence—precious experience of natural products and TMs. Furthermore, in many cases, the role of unmarried chemical compound from natural products and TMs is paid much attention to. Withal, equally a matter of fact, one reward of TM's therapeutics is the "synergism"; that is, frequently multiple components in TMs play a synergistic role which is greater than that of the individual drug. In the concurrently, the "1 disease, 1 target, i drug" way cannot care for some complex diseases effectively, such every bit cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Thus, the treatment has seen a shift to the "multi-drugs and multi-targets" mode for combination therapies. Therefore, in the future, multidisciplinary collaborative research, closely cooperated with new ideas, such as network pharmacology and big data, will be possible to explain the synergism and other mechanisms of natural products and TMs from which more and better new drugs and treatment volition be discovered and inspired.
Acknowledgments
This review was supported in part by enquiry grants (No. 81260669 and 81560698) from National Natural Science Foundation of Communist china, respectively.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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