New thoughts on material basis and mechanism of Yin-tonifying traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications.
10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20190826.502
- Author:
Hai-Jian YUAN
1
;
Shu-Yuan LIN
1
;
Guang-Ji ZHANG
1
;
Jian-Ming JIN
1
;
Xiao-Bin JIA
2
;
Jing-Jing CHEN
1
;
Liang FENG
2
Author Information
1. Taizhou Polytechnic College Taizhou 225300, China.
2. School of Traditional Chinese Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University Nanjing 211198, China.
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
Yin-tonifying traditional Chinese medicine;
diabetes mellitus;
material basis
- MeSH:
Chronic Disease;
Diabetes Mellitus/drug therapy*;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal/therapeutic use*;
Humans;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Yin Deficiency
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2020;45(3):531-538
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Diabetes mellitus is a serious chronic metabolic disease, and the patient's hyperglycemia is often accompanied by complications. In the circles of medical science, traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) has the earliest knowledge and research about diabetes. According to TCM, the clinical characteristics of diabetes mellitus were basically the same as "Xiaoke". TCM also believes that "Yin deficiency and dryness heat" was the main pathogenesis of diabetes. Therefore, Yin-tonifying TCMs is widely used in clinical treatment of diabetes mellitus, including Dendrobii Caulis, Lilii Bulbus, Ophiopogonis Radix, Polygonati Rhizome. The effective component for treating diabetes in the above Chinese materia medica is polysaccharides, which is used to treat complications of diabetes mellitus, like vascular disease, nephropathy, retinopathy, peripheral neuropathy. According to literature reports, except for specific some Yin-tonifying TCMs with effective ingredients for preventing and treating diabetes, other Yin-tonifying TCMs only contain water, alcohol extracts or polysaccharides in the treatment of diabetes. However, due to unclear material basis, dose-effect relationship and mechanism target of hypoglycemic drugs, Yin-tonifying TCMs are restricted in clinical application, with certain difficulties in in-depth studies. In this paper, the literatures related to the treatment of diabetes mellitus and its complications with Yin-tonifying TCM are analyzed and summarized, the existing problems are analyzed, and the research ideas and methods based on chromatographic technology and metabonomics are put forward, in order to provide reference for the application and development of Yin-tonifying TCM.
