Zhenzhen Kou

TL;DR: The botany, ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of P. notoginseng is summarized comprehensively for the first time and the plant has pharmacological effects on the cardiovascular system, immune system as well as anti-inflammatory, anti-atherosclerotic, haemostatic and anti-tumour activities.

TL;DR: An up-to-date review at the advancements of the investigations on the ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, pharmacological effect and toxicity of Fuzi, an extensively used traditional Chinese medicine, which is possessed of wide-reaching biological activities.

TL;DR: The method of the chromatographic fingerprints combined with multivariate statistical analysis was effective and reasonable in orientating chemical constituents which were mainly responsible for the differentiation between raw and roasted materials, thus shedding light on illustrating the processing mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, four new glycosides, including one anthraquinone glycoside (1), one naphthalene glycoide (2), and two naphthopyrone glycoides (3, 4 ), with 10 known compounds ( 5, 14 ) were isolated from the seeds of Cassia obtusifolia L.

TL;DR: A critical analysis of data from scientific evaluations is provided to find out the linkage of the medicinal uses to the scientific studies and the possible future direction and perspective for investigations are discussed.