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Vol.2, No.12, 1397-1400 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.212207 Copyright © 2010 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/HEALTH/ Anti-respiratory p assage virus of Chinese herbal medicine Zhiqiang Wang, Yi Zhu* Department of Acupuncture and Massage, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China; wangzhiqiangshow5@163.com; *Corresponding Author: zhuyi1010@163.com Received 20 April 2010; revised 20 October 2010; accepted 22 October 2010 ABSTRACT Influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus infection of viral respiratory disease has be- come a major killer of mankind, but there is no effect of vaccines and therapeuticmdrugs. Chi- nese herbs can inhibit the proliferation and strengthen the human immune virus, and so on to play a very good antiviral activity. Single- flavor compound in accordance with two dif- ferent drugs and the object of study, the herbal anti-influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus, a comprehensive overview of research and clinical outlook of the Chinese herbs to good use. Keywords: Antiviral; Chinese Herbal Medicine; Influenza Virus; Respiratory Syncytial Virus 1. INTRODUCTION Viral respiratory disease is a class of common disease that have high incidence, all ages are susceptible, infec- tion in children and the elderly often lead to more se- rious complications, a pandemic would bring a high mortality rate, that to be a serious harm to human health. So far western medicine has not found a way that have a good efficiency and have no toxicity. But anti-viral drugs of chinese herbal medicine use natural medicine, which has many features that chemical drugs do not have, and have extensive source, low price, easy to spread. Be- cause of the above reasons, the present stage of Chinese medicine is committed to anti-virus research, to explore this vast treasure house of Chinese medicine, which has obviously found a lot of antiviral drugs. This passage review on Chinese herbal medicine research about the influenza viruses and respiratory syncytial virus in the last ten years. 2. INFLUENZA VIRUS Influenza viruses easily lead to acute respiratory dis- ease, not only affect people's normal life, but also easily lead to serious complications. Although the inactivated vaccine and live attenuated vaccines have achieved some results, but we still did not overcome the difficulties of the surface glycoprotein of influenza virus variation to the traditional vaccine [1]. And because the current drugs used to combat influenza based mainly synthetic drugs such as amantadine, rimantadine and zanamivir, But it has problem of toxic side effects and inconvenient to take the issue [2,3]. Therefore, it is necessary to de- velop low toxicity and effective Chinese herbal medicine to Anti-influenza virus. 2.1. Single Medicine Research Zheng Qun [4] et al used mouse lung virus with in- fluenza virus infection in mice adapted strain A/FM/1/47 pneumonia model to study catechu extract on influenza virus infection in the body on body immune function, but also on Delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) and the impact of neutralizing antibodies. The results showed catechu extract 12.5 g/L mice infected with pneumonia, which has a good protective effect of the death, catechu extract 6.25 g/L can significantly prolong the average survival time of infected mice. This indicates that the catechu extract in mice with effective anti-influenza vi- rus effect. At the same time,research also shows that catechu extract can enhance the influenza virus infection and cellular immunity and humoral immunity. Guo Yanhua [5] et al used mouse lung virus with in- fluenza virus infection in mice adapted strain A/FM/1/47 pneumonia model to research Notopterygium influence on influenza virus pneumonia in mice and protective effect of the death of mice preventive effect of influenza virus. The research found Notopterygium extract high, medium dose group can effectively reduce the mortality rate of mice infected with the virus, the high dose can directly kill influenza virus in mice lungs and lower he- magglutination titer, and the protective effect to death of mice infected with the virus is better than ribavirin, role in the control group with the same effect of Shuang- Z. Q. Wang et al. / Health 1 (2010) 1397-1400 Copyright © 2010 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/HEALTH/ 1398 huanglian (P > 0.05). Chen Zhiwei [6] used microscopic to determine the differences in Morphology of different treatment Radix to red blood cell infection of influenza virus. Discussing the mechanism of aqueous extract of Radix inhibition Cell binding activity of influenza A virus by capillary electrophoresis combined with microscopic examination and hemagglutination titer index. Experiments show that water extract of Radix inhibited virus binding to red blood cells in solution, is a board dominated by blue fine roots of red cell’s own protective effect, which effec- tively inhibit the influenza virus binding to cells to achieve the anti-virus purposes. The cell culture technique to ribavirin as a positive control to observe the anthraquinone compounds on in- fluenza virus cytopathic (CPE) in vitro. Found that half of its anti-influenza virus inhibitory concentration (IC50) was 122.4 μg/ml, half of the toxic concentration (TC50) to 226.1 μg/ml, therapeutic index (TI) was 1.9, and the inhibition of influenza virus, the amount of obvious ef- fective response relationship, and the large amount of inhibition of the virus on a large [7]. Litchi flavonoids have a good appreciation of the in- fluenza virus inhibited the toxicity of Litchi flavonoids lower than ribavirin, and in 160 μg/ml or more, to the extent of influenza virus cytopathic effect inhibition up to 50% or more, that is, at a certain concentration is Lit- chi flavonoids relatively safe and effective antiviral drugs [8]. 2.2 Compound Medicine Research Wang Baohua [9] et al infected mice in each group by the dilution of influenza virus FM1 intranasally, and establish infection model of influenza virus to do re- search on Ag Alice Cai Gui Decoction on the role of influenza virus replication with real-time and accuracy of real-time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR). They establish a normal control group, a virus model group, a ribavirin group and a Tang Yin Qiao Cai Gui group. It was found that the virus model was amplified with the curve of Ct model group were (19.49 ± 1.40), (21.02 ± 4.25), (15.80 ± 4.18) respec- tively, and the test proves positive for influenza virus pathogens. Compared with the model group with the virus replication capacity (128973.40 ± 18.14), the amount of viral replication of ribavirin group (33327.29 ± 19.56) decreased with significantly difference (P < 0. 05), and the Tang Yin Qiao Cai Gui-group virus replica- tion volume (79104.28 ± 2.52) decreased also with sig- nificant difference (P < 0. 05). The above data shows that Yinqiao Cai Gui Decoction has obvious inhibition on pulmonary influenza virus of mice infected by proli- feration of influenza virus. Mei-Juan Chen [10] et al mice with lung adapted strain of influenza virus (FM1) nasal instillation of in- fected BALB/C mice replication animal model to record the survival time of mice in order to measure the lung index. They also use FM1 infected MDCK cell lines (MDCK) as the experimental system to observe the de- gree of cytopathic effect, and thus to understand the ef- fect of Yin huang Injection against FM1. The vitro expe- riments showed that after treatment before the virus in- fected, the amount of Yin huang Injection about 0.11 mg/ml can inhibit FM1 MDCK cells on pathological damage, while before the treatment but after the virus infected, the amount of about 0.22 mg/ml can inhibit FM1 more on MDCK cells injury. The animal experi- ments showed that only a small doses of intramuscular injection of Yin huang , can only decrease the pulmonary index values (P < 0.05), but can significantly reduced lung index (P < 0. 01) with medium and large doses and extend the survival time (P < 0.05). At the same time, the intravenous infusion of small doses will only reduce pulmonary index values (P < 0.05), while the medium and large doses can significantly reduce lung index and prolong survival time (P < 0.01). 3. RESPIRATORY SYNCYTAIL VIRUS Respiratory syncytial virus is one of the important pathogens that can cause Infant lower respiratory tract infection. For a long time, there is no effective medicine against RSV infection, and even if there are formalin inactivated vaccine, live attenuated vaccine technology and the development of subunit vaccine, Genetically engineered vaccine, DNA vaccine, but not safe or inef- fective [11-12]. But many herbs by acting on different targets and to achieve better antiviral. 3.1. Single Medicine Research Patrinia effective part of anti-virus isolated AP3 by Chinese medicine decoction, ethanol extraction and ma- croporous resin chromatography. AP3 on the inhibition of RSV obvious dose-effect relationship in different concentrations, The longer the role of , the more the in- hibitory effects. Its effect primarily through inhibition of RSV respiratory syncytial virus into the cell membrane, inhibite virus replication in cells [13]. Liu Zhao [14] observe virus induced cytopathic effect and MTT assay of drug activity against RSV, calculate the inhibition of drugs on disease rates and half inhibi- tory concentration, antiviral drugs adsorbed, drugs can kill the virus directly and inhibition of the virus in cell biosynthesis, exploration activity in isatis monomer me- chanism of anti-RSV in three aspects. The results showed no direct isatidis monomer inactivation of RSV, Z. Q. Wang et al. / Health 1 (2010) 1397-1400 Copyright © 2010 SciRes. Openly accessible at http://www.scirp.org/journal/HEALTH/ 1399 can not prevent the adsorption of RSV, Which can inhi- bit RSV in Hep-2 cells the biosynthesis. So it shows isatidis monomer safely and efficiently inhibit RSV in Hep-2 cell proliferation, inhibition occurred after viruses invade cells. Chrysanthemum aqueous extract have good inhibitory effect of RSV In vitro. It can play a role in many areas, it not only inactivates viruses directly in incubated with virus, but also inhibites virus adsorption and penetrate the cell membrane infected cells, meanwhile it can re- move the virus which have penetrated cells [15]. 3.2. Compound Medicine Research Xu Xia [16] et al used JinbeiqingfeiKeLi containing honeysuckle, forsythia, Eustoma, loquat, gypsum and other 10 Chinese herbs to act on the respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia in animal models of indirect elections in the 0.18 - 2.89 g/kg 5 doses of particles observed Jin- beiqingfei infection in mice, respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia of indicated doses of the drug began to work in 0.36 g/kg and was compeletly inhibited up to 1.45 g/kg doses in lung tissue proliferation, which can save animals from infection with respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia, the effect was superior than ribavirin dose from in 0.72 g/kg doese of JinbeiqingfeiKeLi. Liao Hui [17] et al took the human embryonic lung fibroblast into groups, then respiratory syncytial virus attacked those groups, after that the electron microsco- pies in each group recorded the changes of ultrastructure of human embryonic lung fibroblasts. The results showed that the viral infection increases the nucleus, nuclear cytoplasmic ratio increase, nucleolar condensa- tion, nuclear membrane sag into the interlayer, the for- mation of inclusion bodies, mitochondrial condensation, expansion of rough endoplasmic reticulum, lysosomes increased, chromatin condensation, cellvirus particles can be seen outside. After infection with serum treatment group, the nuclei enlarged, nucleolus condensation, ex- pansion of rough endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria condensation, but to a lesser extent. Confirmed that when human embryonic lung fibroblast cells infected by RSV, the cell ultrastructural changes may occur, Qingfei oral liquid contained in serum can reduce those changes and the effect is move obvious when it is ussed at the moment of infection than after that. 4. CONCLUSIONS Sum up all these things above, Chinese herbal medi- cine have a good inhibition on the respiratory virus. It is reflected in the inhibition of many aspects such as virus inhibition value and improve the immune function, and compared with western medicine it has low toxicity, those are the advantages of herbal anti-virus. Chinese herbs can act on different targets, in recent years the study of Chinese herbal medicine shifted from single medicine to compound medicine, The introduction of a large number of high technology to study the antiviral mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine. But the study also is not deep enough, the antiviral mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine is not into the system, and there are many problems in the study of chinese compound medicine, such as chinese herbal medicine has many different components, and it will be interaction between different components, this brings us to the question that the research results will be different in a different envi- ronment, different concentrations or using different ex- traction techniques. 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