title: Progress in the study of therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine and extracts in treating severe acute pancreatitis.
abstract: This review summarizes the effects and mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine and herb extracts in treating severe acute pancreatitis. Substances used in traditional Chinese medicine can inhibit pancreatic enzymes and improve microcirculation as well as immunoregulation by blocking the pathological progress of severe acute pancreatitis. Extracts of Chinese herbs not only act on the pancreas, stomach and intestine, but also have markedly therapeutic effects on other viscera damaged as a result of the systemic inflammatory response to acute pancreatitis. Therefore, the application of extracts of Chinese herbs for treating severe acute pancreatitis has significant clinical value and good prospects.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. zxp99688@vip.163.com
authors.forename: Xi Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D008833:Microcirculation; D010179:Pancreas / Q000201:enzymology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal