Apr 18, 2006

Traditional Chinese Medicine Analyzed

Posted in Health, spectroscopy at 12:11 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Huángqí (huangqi) is a plant root used in one of the most common tonics of Chinese traditional herbal medicine with purported activity in cancer, diabetes, inflammation, and nephritis.

As such, there is a lot of interest in the active ingredients of this species as it might lead to novel pharmaceuticals against a range of illnesses. Now, researchers in China have used a powerful spectroscopic technique to identify the active chemical components of this remedy.

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