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Antioxidant Effect of Schisandra Chinensis

Natural products are the biggest source of food and nutrition in human history; the people were feeding the products from the nature as long as the life was in existing. People also used the natural products as medicine. Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. is famous element that is useful in Chinese traditional medicine and recognized by western herbal medicine. I aimed this script to demonstrate the antioxidant effect of Schisandra chinensis. After carefully reviewing an enormous number of researches about Schisandra chinensis and its antioxidant effect, I found that Schisandra chinensis is enriched with many essential chemicals that can be used as the remedy of different ailments. Beside the polysaccharides found in Schisandra chinensis, also it was underlined that schisandrol A, schisandrol B, schisandrin B, schizandrin, schisantherin B, schisantherin A, schisanhenol, deoxyschizandrin are the key elements of Schisandra chinensis ’ s antioxidant effect. Basically Schisandra chinensis shows its antioxidant effect by helping the natural intracellular protection against radical attacks. In this era the quantity of incurable diseases are high, while another more diseases can be cured with huge cost or their curative period take too long. So, in order to find an ultimate solution for current medical problems, we need to study more about Schisandra chinensis.

Author(s):

Surab Mohammed

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