Metabolism study of botanical drugs.

摘要

The article focused in this issue (Song et al., 2010) describes in vitro metabolism study of jaceosidin, which is a bioactive flavonoid compound found in the medici-naL herbs of Artemisia species (Kim et al., 2008). Recently, synthetic approaches to drug discovery have been declined in new drug development, whereas the market of botanical therapeutics such as dietary supplements or botanical drugs is growing and the development has been increasingly received attention. Botanical drug, as defined by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is a drug product that is prepared from one or more plants, algae, or macroscopic fungi by one or more of the following processes: pulverization, decoction, expression, aqueous extraction, ethanolic extraction, or other similar process.