An extract of Scutellaria Barbata D. Don is effective in the arrest of cancer cell growth. The extract of Scutellaria Barbata D. Don may be used as a therapeutic treatment for patients who have been identified as having cancer. In some situations, a patient is identified as having a type of cancer by detecting the presence of a biomarker for that cancer in the patient's system and by further determining the level of that biomarker in the patient's system. If the level of the biomarker is above a predetermined threshold level for that biomarker, the patient may be diagnosed with cancer. Subsquently, treatment using an extract of Scutellaria Barbata D. Don may begin. Biomarkers of interest in the detection of the presence of metastitic breast cancer include 8-oxoguanine and lactate dehydrogenase.

Cohen; Isaac

Bionovo, Inc.

Methods of detecting and treatment of cancers using Scutellaria barbata extract

Dislcosed are methods and compositions for producing weight loss in a mammal by administration of a composition containing a weight loss effective amount of a noradrenaline stimulating compound such as ephedrine, mahuang (a plant source of ephedrine alkaloids), citrus aurantium (bitter orange), synephrine, norephedrine, psuedophedrine, a methylxanthine, such as caffeine or guarana, and a botanical COX inhibitor such as resveratrol polygonum cuspidatum, scutellaria baicalensis, turmeric, curcumin, rosmary, green tea, ocimum sanctum (holy basil), or ginger, instead of an NSAID such as aspirin, and optionally a free fatty acid reducing compound. The thermogenic formula is coupled with a growth hormone stimulating formulation containing L-arginine or L-omithine, L-lysine, and a free fatty acid reducing agent such as nicotinic acid. The thermogenic formula would preferably be administered in the daytime, and the growth hormone producing formula at nighttime. The two compositions form a system of AM and PM weight loss strategy for the therapeutic intervention of obesity.

Methods and compositions for producing weight loss

The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition useful for the treatment of diseases associated with viruses of the order Nidovirales of the family Coronaviradae, such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) viruses in humans and other animals. In particular, this invention relates to a naturally occurring compound, namely, baicalin, extracted and purified from the Chinese medicinal plant Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi (Chinese name: Huang Qin), that exhibits potent antiviral activity against members of the order Nidovirales of the family Coronaviradae that infects humans and other animals; in particular, SARS viruses in humans ("hSARS virus"). The invention also relates to a therapeutic method, using pharmaceutical compositions comprising baicalin compounds, for the treatment, amelioration, management or prevention of diseases associated with members of the order Nidovirales of the family Coronaviradae, such as hSARS.

The University of Hong Kong

Baicalin as a treatment for SARS infection

Pharmaceutical compositions for treating immunological disorders and the preparing method of the same are disclosed, which include alcohol extracts of Radix Dioscorea, Rhizoma Alismatis, Poria cocos (schw) Wolf, and Scutellaria Baicalensis. The compositions are manufactured by novel procedures consisting of decocting using specific concentration ranges of alcohol, filtering, regulating pH value, purifying, concentrating, proportionally mixing, and making a granule powder from lyophilized extract. This invention used both in vitro and in vivo assays to evaluate therapeutic effects of specific combination of herbal plant extracts. The combination of herbal extracts has been able to maximize the anti-inflammatory activity and regulate the secretion of cytokines such as eotaxin and IL-4. When the pharmaceutical composition of the present invention is used for asthma, it can relieve coughs, resist airway allergic inflammation reactions, improve the pulmonary functions, reduce allergen specific IgE in bloods, stabilize elasmatoblasts, and stop the attacks from asthma.

Industrial Technology Research Institute

Herbal composition for treating allergic disorders and method for making the same

Technical Field: Tea Technical Problem: To provide a drinkable tea having a high therapeutic effect against atopic dermatitis. Means for Solving: It is characterized in that it contains extracts drawn from one, two or more medicinal herbs selected from the group consisting of Lightyellow Sophora Root, Isatis Leaf, and Terminalia Fruit. Atopic dermatitis can be cured by improving allergic constitution from the inside of body owing to antibacterial effect and antiviral effect of Lightyellow Sophora Root, Isatis Leaf and Terminalia Fruit, antiallergic effect of Lightyellow Sophora Root and Isatis Leaf, and intestinal mucosal protecting effect of Terminalia Fruit, or by a synergistic effect of them. In addition, the pharmacological effect in said extracts drawn from plants is enhanced, a pharmacological effects lacking in said extracts drawn from plants are added, or easiness of drinking the tea as a drinkable drug is improved and thus the therapeutic effect is improved by adding one, two or more auxiliary materials selected from the group of Japanese Angelica Root, Oldenlandia diffusa, Smilax Glarba, Dried Tangerine Peel, Wild Chrysanthemum Flower, Corydalis, Peppermint, Baikal Skullcap, Lithospermum, Kudingcha, Smartweed, and Licorice to the extracts drawn from plants. Principal Use: It is used for the therapy of dermatitis, particularly of atopic dermatitis.

scutellaria montana/seenevastane

Methods of detecting and treatment of cancers using Scutellaria barbata extract

Methods and compositions for producing weight loss

Baicalin as a treatment for SARS infection

Herbal composition for treating allergic disorders and method for making the same

Tea for treating dermatitis comprising herbal extracts

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