Journal of Pharmaceutical Practice and Service 2022;40(5):408-415

doi:10.12206/j.issn.2097-2024.202205094

Research progress of Tibetan medicine against plateau hypoxia

Zihan WANG 1 ; Anpeng ZHAO 2 ; Hongfang MU 2 ; Qianwen GUO 1 ; Junfei CHENG 2 ; Rong WANG 1

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Keywords

high altitude hypoxia; Tibetan medicine; resistance to hypoxia; effect

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Tibetan is a kind of medicine which extensively absorbed and fused the Chinese Traditional Medicine, Indian medicine and food through long-term practice and form the unique medical system. At the same time, the Qinghai Tibet plateau has characteristics of high altitude and lack of resources and oxygen, which has formed its unique geographical environment and grow a lot of rare medicinal plants. Tibetan medicine has a long history and is one of the relatively complete and influential ethnic medicines in China, which has played an important role in the treatment of plateau diseases. In recent years, with the increasing of economic activities in the plateau, the plateau anoxia had greatly affected the working capacity of the plateau. According to "Chinese medicine" through the literature, the pharmacological activities, active ingredients, growing environment of Tibetan medicine with good plateau hypoxia effect were reviewed and according to the site, which could be divided into the lung protection medicine, the cardiac protection medicine, the brain protection medicine, the liver protection medicine, the improvement of fatigue medicine and other medicine, which could provide theoretical basis for finding more potential anti-hypoxia drugs.