Title: Metabonomics: a developing platform for better understanding Chinese herbal teas as a complementary therapy
Abstract: Summary Chinese herbal teas ( CHT s) have gained increasing attention throughout the world as a complementary therapy. Due to the multicomponent composition in herbal teas, the molecular mechanisms of their causality in health effects are still elusive and becoming the main obstacles for their application. There is a pressing need for a more systematic study about their molecular mechanisms to substantiate the health effects of CHT s. With the particular feature of measuring the real metabolic phenotype resulted from molecular interplay between host and environmental factors, metabonomics is especially suited to inspect metabolic responses to CHT intake and provide insights into health effects. Application of metabonomics to uncover the effects of CHT s on human health is foreseen as providing deeper insights of the complicated molecular mechanisms of CHT s by explaining relatively subtle and different effects of herbal tea intervention, classifying the metabolic responses to herbal tea, depicting synergistic effects of CHT s and evaluating the safety of CHT s intake.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-07-21
Language: en
Type: article
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