HUANG Mei, TAN Yu-qing, LUO Jun, et al. Antimicrobial Resistance of Chinese Herbal Medicine[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(23): 218-224.
DOI:
HUANG Mei, TAN Yu-qing, LUO Jun, et al. Antimicrobial Resistance of Chinese Herbal Medicine[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(23): 218-224. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20182336.
Antimicrobial Resistance of Chinese Herbal Medicine
The emergence of antibiotics has made great contribution to the treatment of infectious diseases and the improvement of human health. However
with the intensive use of antibiotics
especially their abuse
bacterial resistance becomes increasingly serious. The increase and spread of drug-resistant bacteria seriously threaten human health. Bacterial resistance has been a global health problem. On one side
more and more bacteria become resistant to the commonly used antibiotics
and there have been even "super bacteria"; on the other side
it takes a long time to develop new chemically synthetic drugs with antibacterial activity. Chinese herbal medicine has a history of several thousand years in China
with many advantages
such as abundant resources
less adverse effects and rare drug resistance. Therefore
developing new antibacterial Chinese herbal medicine
especially those against bacterial resistance
has increasingly become a research hotspot. The authors made a review of the research progress on antimicrobial resistance of Chinese herbal medicine
including the recent reports of antibacterial activity of Chinese herbal medicine and their mechanisms
the factors affecting antibacterial activity and the prospect in this field
in the hope of providing a reference for further study of exploring traditional Chinese herbal medicines as sources of antimicrobial resistance drugs.