Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Alkaloids from medicinal herbs could alter landscape of several diseases
Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, February 10th, 2003
"Tetrandrine (TET), a bis-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid purified and identified an active ingredient in a Chinese medicinal herb, Radix Stephanae tetrandrae, has been used traditionally for the treatment of congestive circulatory disorder and inflammatory diseases. TET, together with a few of its structural analogues, has long been demonstrated to have antihypertensive action in clinical as well as animal studies. Presumably, the primary anti-hypertensive action of...
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