临床治疗心脑血管疾病的中药与天然植物药

大部分心脑血管疾病属于需长期用药的慢性病和多发病，关于化学药品的不良反应和毒副作用不断被报道，因此，人们对疗效确切、副作用相对较少的中药以及天然植物药制剂寄予厚望。目前中药制剂在我国心脑血管用药市场已占据一定优势，尤其是银杏叶制剂已成为全球服用人数最多的天然植物药。不断开发和完善中药及天然植物药系统，并应用于心脑血管疾病的治疗，必将有深远的医学价值和广阔的市场前景。该文对临床常用的治疗心脑血管疾病的中药及其制剂、颇具发展前景的心脑血管用天然植物药成分进行了简单介绍。

A Brief Review on Therapeutic Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Plant Medicine for Treatment of Cardiocerebrovascular Diseases

In recent years, with rising occurrence of cardiocerebrovascular diseases, there is a rapidly- growing need for therapeutic drugs in this field. However, since most cardiocerebrovascular diseases which belong to chronic and frequently-encountered diseases requiring long term treatment with medicines, the adverse side effects of chemical-based drugs have become a major concern and serious issue. Therefore, people put great expectations on certain traditional Chinese medicines （TCMs） and natural plant and herbal medicines with relatively defined therapeutic effects and lesser side effects. Recent statistics on clinical medication shows that TCM-based drugs have started to dominate the cardiocerebrovascular diseases market in China, especially ginkgo leaf extracts have become the most popular natural plant medicine in world- wide which plays an increasing role in treating these diseases. With more than ten thousand kinds of TCM raw materials and long history of clinical application of TCM, it is anticipated that those rich resources will be fully explored and developed into safe and efficacious treatment for cardiocerebrovascular diseases, which will undoubtedly bring enormous medical benefits and market values, and also create unprecedented opportunities for TCM- based pharmaceutical industry in the future.