title: [Review of pharmacological activities of Dendrobium officinale based on traditional functions].
abstract: This review firstly made a summary of ancient literature on traditional functions of Dendrobium, combined with literature of modern pharmacological research and clinical application of D. officinale from CNKI search system, it was summarized that D. officinale had broad bioactivities including immunomodulation, antifatigue activity, antioxidation, digest-promotion, stimulation of salivary secretion, lowering hyperglycemia, anti-hypertension, anti liver injury and antitumor activity, etc. Furthermore, public healty needs and present situation of cooperative product development were analyzed base on tradtional functions, pharmacological actions and related clinical applications of D. officinale, could provide a reference for the further industrial development.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Materia Medica, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310053, China. lv.gy@263.net
authors.forename: Gui-Yuan
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Mei-Qiu
authors.initials: MQ
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Su-Hong
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D031667:Dendrobium / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D018514:Plant Structures / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal