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Houttuynin is one of the main ingredients in the volatile oil derived from Houttuynia cordata Thunb. Houttuynin and its derivatives have strong antibacterial effects. Houttuynia injection preparations are commonly used in clinical antimicrobial drugs and have exact effects on infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, and gynecological inflammation. However, there are side effects associated with the use of these injection preparations, mainly involving the cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system, circulatory system, skin or kidney. It has been a direction of efforts to obtain the new derivatives with high efficiency and low toxicity.
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Hou, BY., Zhang, L., Du, GH. (2018). Houttuynin. In: Natural Small Molecule Drugs from Plants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8022-7_69
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