Recent advances in pharmacokinetics approach for herbal medicine

摘要: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), an indispensable part of herbal medicine, has been used for treating many diseases and/or symptoms thousands years. As we know, the main active components TCM can account its therapeutic effects. However, rational use faces a series obstacles due to large diversity species and inaccurate knowledge components. In recent years, more applications new technologies or methodologies investigating have provided us with much additional information on substances. Pharmacokinetics is effective tool which be investigate TCM. A pharmacokinetics approach reveals dynamic processes in vivo, including their absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion offer guidance clinical uses Therefore, objective this paper review current status TCM, application emerging trends.