Context: Danggui Buxue Tang (DBT) is a classical Chinese medicine that practitioners have used for thousands of years. Historically, those practitioners have used 16 prescriptions of DBT but currently are using only three prescriptions.
Objective: The review intended to summarize pharmacological profiles of DBT and also clarify the major active chemicals found within it to provide a better understanding of the significance of DBT clinically.
Design: The research team performed a narrative review by searching Pubmed databases. The search used the keywords Danggui Buxue Tang, bioactive chemcials, pharmacological functions.
Setting: The databases setting were done by Gong Guowei and Zhou Xuan in the Zunyi Medical University, Zhuhai campus.
Results: There are multiple results related to the crude fractions isolated from Danggui Buxue Tang, and also included the clinical trails.
Conclusions: Thousands of years of clinical experience have ensured the efficacy of TCM treatments, which can determine the direction of basic research. That research can modify formulas at the molecular level to improve targeting and specificity in the treatment of specific diseases. As a result, the discovery and identification of new compounds within the herbal complex can provide useful research ideas and ensure the viability of new drug development.