An Updated Review on Efficiency of Penthorum chinense Pursh in Traditional Uses, Toxicology, and Clinical Trials

• Published in: BioMed research international 2023, Vol.2023 (1), p.4254051-4254051
• Main Authors: Nabi, Fazul, Ahmed, Jameel, Tao, Weilai, Lu, Qin, Bhutto, Zohaib Ahmed, Qadir, Ayaz, Hameed, Abdul, Ahmed, Iftikhar, Ahmed, Nazeer, Essa, Muhammad, Liu, Juan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acids; Alzheimer's disease; Animal Diseases; Animal health; Animal research; Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antidiabetics; Antiinfectives and antibacterials; Antioxidants; Antioxidants - pharmacology; Apoptosis; Biocompatibility; Biological activity; Biomedical research; Biomolecules; Chemical properties; Chinese medicine; Clinical trials; Cosmeceuticals; Diabetes mellitus; Dietary Supplements; Diuresis; Edema; Flavonoids; Free radicals; Functional foods & nutraceuticals; Glucose; Health aspects; Health services; Hepatitis; Herbal medicine; Humans; Immunoregulation; Inflammation; Injury prevention; Kidneys; Lignans; Liver; Liver diseases; Medical research; Medicine, Botanic; Medicine, Herbal; Mitochondria; Organic acids; Oxidative stress; Pathogenesis; Penthorum; Pharmacognosy; Pharmacology; Physiology; Phytochemicals; Polyphenols; R&D; Research & development; Review; Reviews; Saxifragaceae; Signs and symptoms; Spectrum analysis; Sterols; Toxicity; Toxicology; Traditional Chinese medicine
• ISSN: 2314-6133; 2314-6141
• DOI: 10.1155/2023/4254051

Traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) play an important role in the control and treatment of several animal diseases. Penthorum chinense Pursh (PCP) is a famous plant for its use in traditional medication practice and therapeutic effects in numerous pathological conditions. In China, PCP is utilized for both food and medication due to numerous bioactivities. PCP is widely administered in prevention and treatment of traumatic injury, edema, and liver diseases with functions of reducing swelling, support diuresis, blood stasis, and mitigation symptoms of excessive alcohol intake. Recently, PCP highlighted for research trials in various fields including pharmacology, pharmacognosy, cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals due to medicinal significance with less toxicity and an effective ethnomedicine in veterinary practice. PCP contains diverse important ingredients such as flavonoids, organic acids, coumarins, lignans, polyphenols, and sterols that are important bioactive constituents of PCP exerting the therapeutic benefits and organ-protecting effects. In veterinary, PCP extract, compound, and phytochemicals/biomolecules significantly reversed the liver and kidney injuries, via antioxidation, oxidative stress, apoptosis, mitochondrial signaling pathways, and related genes. PCP water extract and compounds also proved in animal and humans’ clinical trial for their hepatoprotective, antiaging, nephroprotective, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antibacterial, antiapoptotic, immune regulation, and antioxidative stress pathways. This updated review spotlighted the current information on efficiency and application of PCP by compiling and reviewing recent publications on animal research. In addition, this review discussed the toxicology, traditional use, comparative, and clinical application of PCP in veterinary practices to authenticate and find out new perspectives on the research and development of this herbal medicine.