1.Research On Traditional Drugs And Herbs Used For Liver Diseases
Tserendagva Dalkh ; Tsend-Ayush Damba
Journal of Oriental Medicine 2012;3(2):43-44
In traditional Mongolian medicine, 18 liver disorders are counted and
each of them is denominated by specific medical term. However, liver
diseases described in traditional Mongolian medicine do not easily
match liver diseases as specified by the western medical system.
Therefore, it is important to detect active constituents in Mongolian
plants which give a rational for an application in the conventional
Western treatment of liver disease. Mongolian traditional medicine
doesn’t indicate cancer diseases separately. Under the traditional
medical term ‘liver disorder’ mentioned non-cancer and cancer diseases
of liver. For this reason, medicinal plants and compounds are prescribed
in common hepatobiliary ailments.
The most important part of Mongolian traditional medicine is medication.
Mongolian materia medica consists of plants, minerals, and animal parts
or products, however, the plants have always made up the main part
(about 80%) of the prescriptions. By the theory of TMM mostly young
strength persons with “bile-fire” constitutions, who stayed enough time in
warm dry conditions suffers from acute, “hot” quality liver disease, and
there is a suitable to use a bitter tested and cool, blunt quality remedies.
This principle of therapy explained what mentioned above quality plants
might have an antioxidant activity; promote membrane stability and
reduce cys-configurations of membrane. This interesting hypothesis was
successfully studied on species of Gentiana acuta, Silibum marrianum,
Salsola colina. During pharmacological study of Chiazospermum
erecthum Bernh. species were identified main biological active
substances such as protopine alkaloid. Within the studying of protopine
alkaloid property species such as Chiazospermum erecthum Bernh
Mongolian scientists interested in a bitter tested, cool, rough, blunt
quality plants same with Chiazospermum, and identified high amount of
protopine alkaloid in Berberis sibirica, Thalictrum, Chelidonum majus
species.
Further Chiazospermum erecthum L. was studied on D-galactosamine
liver damage model, and determined that dry extract from aerial part of
Chiazospermum erecthum L. reduced cytolytic syndromes and
cholestasis, promoted the accelerated normalization of its functional
condition. Lilium pumilum Delile flowers‘infusion is thought to have a
protective effect on liver injures and improve the microvascular
circulation disorder known as disseminated intravascular coagulation.
Saussurea amara (L.) DC is widely spread medicinal plant in Mongolia
and successfully used in Mongolian traditional medicine as a holeretic
component. The content of biological active of compounds was
examined with thin layer chromatography and apigenin was isolated and
identified for the first time. Beneficial effects, such as dose dependent
choleretic effects were seen with apigenin from aerial part of Saussurea
amara (L.) DC in an isolated rat perfused liver model. Beside of single
plant species hepatoprotective compounds were studied by Mongolian
scientists. Prof. L.Myagmar (1974) determined that total amount of
flavonoid from Lomatogonum caranthiacum wulfen at Br. and Achillea
asiatica L.species increaced bile secretion of experimental animals and
demonstrated hepatoprotective activity. “Barbad-10” is potent
hepatoprotective compound. Traditional compound “Degd-3” used as a
remedy for bloodletting preparation influenced on immunosuppressive
cells positive location. Also were determined antioxidant and choleretic
activity of total flavonoids from Bupleurum scorzonerifoilium,
hepatoprotective activity of gammapyrone substances isolated from two
species of Gentianaceae family: Gentiana acuta and Lomotogonium
rotatum L. 11 types of flavon substances were isolated from Saxifraga
hirculus L. and Lomatogonium carinthiacum Wulfen et Br. species, and
was determined hepatoprotective action of Saxifraga hirculus L. In other
hand, Saxifraga hirculus L. increased the biliary secretion and excretion
speed, protected from toxic detergent effect of bile acid, improved
detoxification effect of the liver, protected from the necrotic cell lysis,
showed antioxidant and membrane stabilizing activity and these actions
were compared with the standard medicines such as Legalon and
Cholosasum which in some cases, above mentioned effects were higher
than these drugs. Hepatoprotective action of Saxifraga hirculus L. may
have been related to its contents such as compound flavonoids of the
quercetin group, aglycone and bitter hyperoside. From traditional
recipes of liver remedy were developed following new formulations
which demonstrated hepatoprotective actions and influenced on bile
secretion: “Hepamon, “Silodin”, “Saxifragen”, and “Berchessazin”.