Research advance on anti-radiation effect of traditional Chinese medicine

DUAN Ya-bin; YAO Xing-chen; ZHANG Juan-ling; LI Xiang-yang

Abstract：With the development of science and technology,ionizing radiation is used more and more widely,which is dangerous and should not be ignored. People pay more attention to the harm caused by radiation and to discover classical ra-diation resistant medicines,especially after the Chernobyl and Fudushima nuclear lead accident. Firstly,the tumor patient who treated with radiation therapy increased year by year,radiotherapy can treat tumor while damage the normal tissue. Sec-ondly,with the continuous destruction of the ozone layer on plateau area,the damage on plateau residents caused by uv rays was also more and more serious. At present,drugs used in radiation damage was WR-2721( ammonia phosphorus),super-oxide dismutase(SoD),etc,which has great toxicity and side effects,made their applications limited. So we aimed for searching for anti-radiation drugs of low toxicity and high effectiveness,which can be the most pressing problems. The tra-ditional Chinese herbal medicine has become a hot research point in our country. This article reviewed the research progress in recent years on traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine in the treatment of the radiation injury.