背景:用于癌症治疗的化疗药物通常会导致胃肠道毒性,尤其是腹泻,影响患者的生活质量。补充和替代医学(CAM)作为常规方法的替代方法,作为管理化疗引起的腹泻(CID)的潜在解决方案,已经引起了越来越多的兴趣。
目的:总结目前以中药作为辅助治疗预防或治疗化疗引起的腹泻的研究,包括临床评估,行动机制,有源元件,以及草药和化疗药物之间潜在的药代动力学相互作用。
方法:我们从PubMed,CNKI,谷歌学者,WebofScience,和Scopus使用“化疗”,\"腹泻,\"和\"补充和替代医学\"作为搜索关键字。
结果:使用草药作为佐剂提供了一种有效的方法来治疗或预防CID,同时改善或不影响化疗药物的抗肿瘤活性。在这些草药配方中,黄芩,Ginger,人参是CID处方中最常用的草药。草药中的主要止泻成分是wogonin,黄芩苷,chrysin,槲皮素,姜辣素,和人参皂苷。这些草药,配方,和生物活性成分通过不同的机制缓解CID,包括直接减少局部药物暴露,抗炎,抑制上皮凋亡,或促进上皮干细胞再生。在多项临床试验中,中草药作为辅助疗法的应用显示出预防或治疗CID的功效。然而,更多设计良好的临床研究有望进一步验证结果.尽管一些临床研究表明某些草药可能潜在地减弱CID并提高疗效,仍然有必要评估草药的安全性。草药和药物之间的相互作用也是潜在的问题,但是很少有临床试验专注于研究这方面。
结论:在临床实践中,草药显示出作为化疗引起的胃肠道毒性的辅助治疗的潜力,尤其是腹泻。需要进一步精心设计的临床研究来验证其疗效,确保安全,并探索潜在的药物-草药相互作用。
BACKGROUND: Chemotherapeutic drugs used in cancer treatment often result in gastrointestinal toxicity, notably diarrhea, impacting patients\' quality of life. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) has garnered increasing interest as an alternative to conventional approaches as a potential solution for managing chemotherapyinduced diarrhea (CID).
OBJECTIVE: To summarize current research focusing on herbal medicines as adjuvant therapy to prevent or treat chemotherapy-induced diarrhea, including clinical assessments, mechanism of actions, active components, and potential pharmacokinetic interactions between herbal medicines and chemotherapeutic drugs.
METHODS: We performed the literature review from PubMed, CNKI, Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus using \"Chemotherapy\", \"Diarrhea,\" and \"Complementary and Alternative Medicine\" as the search keywords.
RESULTS: Using herbal medicines as adjuvants provides an effective approach to treating or preventing CID with improved or unaffected antitumor activity of chemotherapeutic drugs. Among these herbal formulations, scutellaria, ginger, and ginseng are the most frequently used herbs in the prescriptions for CID. The main antidiarrheal components in herbs include wogonin, baicalin, chrysin, quercetin, gingerol, and ginsenosides. These herbs, formulations, and bioactive components relieved CID through different mechanisms, including directly decreasing local drug exposure, anti-inflammation, inhibiting epithelial apoptosis, or promoting epithelium stem cell regeneration. The application of herbal medicines as adjunctive therapies showed efficacy in preventing or treating CID in multiple clinical trials. However, more well-designed clinical studies are expected to validate the results further. Despite some clinical studies demonstrating that certain herbal medicines could potentially attenuate CID and improve efficacy, it remains necessary to evaluate herbal safety. The interactions between herbs and drugs are also potential concerns, but few clinical trials have focused on investigating this aspect.
CONCLUSIONS: In clinical practise, herbal medications show potential as adjuvant treatments for gastrointestinal toxicities induced by chemotherapy, particularly diarrhoea. Further well-designed clinical studies are needed to validate their efficacy, ensure safety, and explore potential drug-herb interactions.