[New strategy for treatment of respiratory infection and the predominance of traditional Chinese medicine].
Respiratory infection is a common illness. Antibiotic therapy is an essential treatment in clinical practices, but it is challenged by drug-resistant pathogenic microbes. Nowadays, there are many great improvements in some novel non-antimicrobial therapies for preventing and treating respiratory infection, such as enhancing the secretion of endogenous antibiotic peptides to improve innate immune defense of mucous membrane, attaching importance to research and application of vaccine over again, reducing the adhesion and attachment of microbes to block their invasion, and treating systemic inflammatory response syndrome resulting from severe infection. In Chinese herbal pharmacological studies, we found some herbs have antimicrobial function, and furthermore, these herbs have potential effects of immunoregulation. Chinese herbs are worthy of tapping potentialities of research and exploiture.
Wang
Yi-Yu
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Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China. cmdwang@163.com
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000906:Antibodies / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002681:China; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D014611:Vaccination
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D000906:Antibodies; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D010936:Plant Extracts