“…Over the last 20 years, CHM were widely used in the treatment of HBV carriers and some of the herbs including Radix Astragali, Radix Salviae miltiorrhizae and Radix Bupleuri, have been proved to be effective in terms of seroreversion of HBsAg, HBeAg and HBV DNA [28]. Recently, a number of natural compounds from CHM that block HBV replication have been identified, including epigallocatechin-3-gallate [29], curcumin [30], wogonin [31], ellagic acid [32], artemisinin and artesunate [33], chrysophanol 8-O-β-d-glucoside [34], SSc [18], asiaticoside [35], helioxanthin [36], and oxymatrine [37]. In this study we investigated the anti-HBV activity of SSc, one of the saikosaponins extracted from the medicinal plant Radix Bupleuri.…”