Satoh Hiroyasu
Health Life Science, Shitennoji University, Habikino, Osaka, Japan.
J Intercult Ethnopharmacol. 2014 Oct-Dec;3(4):196-200. doi: 10.5455/jice.20140917122310. Epub 2014 Sep 27.
Food ingestions generally regulate many physiological functions to maintain a healthy life. Furthermore, herbal medicine is prescribed for the prevention and the treatment of various diseases. There are not a few herbal medicine-derived drugs (phytochemicals) clinically using now. The phytochemicals such as digitalis, curare, morphine, quinidine, atropine, and so on are so much important drugs for clinical treatments. Herbal medicine and foods are composed of many constituents. The pharmacological actions that contain phytochemicals are exerted each by each mediated through different receptors, ionic channels, and cellular signal transductions. Thus, they produce multiple pharmacological and pathophysiological functions mediated by the complex interactions with lots of the ingredients.
食物摄入通常调节多种生理功能以维持健康生活。此外，草药被用于预防和治疗各种疾病。目前临床上使用的源自草药的药物（植物化学物质）并不少见。洋地黄、箭毒、吗啡、奎尼丁、阿托品等植物化学物质是临床治疗中非常重要的药物。草药和食物由许多成分组成。含有植物化学物质的药理作用是通过不同的受体、离子通道和细胞信号转导分别介导发挥的。因此，它们通过与许多成分的复杂相互作用产生多种药理和病理生理功能。
