Recent advances in the study of antioxidative effects of Chinese medicinal plants

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Abstract
Research on the antioxidative effect of Chinese medicinal plants as a field of modern pharmacology has become more active in China because antioxidative drugs can be used widely to alleviate and/or cure various inflammations, allergic diseases, cancers, organic damage and ageing diseases. In the last decade more attention has been paid to the art of extracting antioxidants from medicinal plants possessing high efficiency and low toxicity since synthetic antioxidants usually show adverse side effects leading to their limited application. A list of 48 species and varieties of Chinese medicinal plants and the antioxidants obtained from them are presented in detail; the status and methodology adopted by Chinese pharmacologists on antioxidative studies are described. Studies on four Chinese traditional drugs, Fructus Schisandrae, Fructus Rosae davuricae, Radix Cynanchi auriculati and Radix Ginseng, are described to show the advances and prospects on the antioxidative effect of Chinese medicinal plants.