Advances in natural product anti-coronavirus research (2002-2022)

Abstract

COVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronavirus that has triggered acute respiratory infections in countries around the world. In the last 20 years, there have been several outbreaks of coronaviruses, which have had a tremendous impact on productive life and globalization. Since coronaviruses are mutagenic and highly susceptible to mutation, there are no specific drugs against coronaviruses. Medicines made from natural products gains worldwide attention, and the mechanism and effectiveness of natural products for the treatment of coronavirus-related diseases have received much attention after the global pandemic of COVID-19 in 2020. The vitro research results and clinical data from various countries have shown protective effects of good effects against coronaviruses. This review summarizes representative natural products for the treatment of coronavirus-related diseases in the past 20 years, and demonstrates the promising prospects of natural products against coronavirus-related diseases by listing herbal formulas, Chinese patent medicines and natural small molecule compounds and their therapeutic mechanisms, providing references for subsequent related studies.

Natural products as potential drug treatments for acute promyelocytic leukemia

“…In the first two decades of the twentieth century, coronaviruses have ravaged the world several times. Multi-target natural medicines have played an important role in human resistance to coronavirus [ 100 ]. Nowadays, although various therapies are emerging for the treatment of malignant tumors, natural medicines are not to be ignored because of mild, safe, and inexpensive.…”