title: The pharmacological and pathological studies on Taiwan folk medicine (VII): The anti-inflammatory effect of Echinops grjiisii.
abstract: The hepatotoxic-protective effects of "San-fang-feng" (the root of E. grijisii) and "Lou-lu" (the root of E. latifolius) on CCl4 induced hepatotoxicity have been proposed in our previous paper (Lin et al, 1990). The anti-inflammatory effects of these two crude drugs were investigated in this experiment. The results indicated that both of them displayed pronounced anti-inflammatory activities against carrageenan-induced edema. Furthermore, in order to isolated the main active components of E. grijisii, fractions obtained from the methanolic extract of E. grijisii were investigated in mice for their 24-h LD50 and 95% confidence limits, which could be used as a guiding for further animal experiments. Our findings demonstrated that n-hexane (100,300 mg/kg), chloroform (30,100, 300 mg/kg) and ethyl acetate (30,100, 300 mg/kg) fractions could markedly inhibit the carrageenan-induced inflammation, and the main active principle was found to be concentrated in the chloroform fraction, which possessed significant inhibitory activities even more than does indomethacin.
authors.affiliation: School of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use* / Q000633:toxicity; D004487:Edema / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal