What are antioxidant drugs?

There are many types of medicines. When choosing a medicine, you must first understand it so that you can choose the correct method when using it, and it will not cause any harm to your health. Antioxidant drugs are very common. There are many types of this type of medicine. When choosing, you can choose according to your own needs. So what are antioxidant drugs? The following is a detailed introduction.

What are antioxidant drugs?

Ginkgo Leaf

Domestic and foreign scholars believe that Ginkgo biloba extract (EGb) mainly contains physiologically active substances such as flavonoids and terpene lactones. The flavonoid molecules contain reducing hydroxyl functional groups, which terminate the free radical chain reaction by acting as hydrogen atom donors to free radicals, directly scavenging O2-, OH-, H2O2, alkane free radicals and lipid free radicals, thereby preventing and inhibiting free radical reactions and lipid peroxidation reactions, and inhibiting the formation of active toxic substances such as serum lipid peroxides (LPO) and their metabolites malondialdehyde (MDA) and conjugated dienes. At the same time, flavonoids can also participate in regulating and improving the activity of antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px). Therefore, EGb can be regarded as a broad-spectrum free radical scavenger.

Ginseng

Ginseng total saponins can inhibit lipid peroxidation reactions caused by various factors, increase SOD activity, and effectively remove O2- and OH-. They can reduce the scope of experimental myocardial infarction and alleviate myocardial reperfusion injury; they can increase cerebral blood flow, reduce ultrastructural damage of cerebral edema, and reduce mortality; they can also significantly reduce the LPO content in the liver and serum of middle-aged and elderly mice, inhibit lipid peroxidation in middle-aged and elderly animals, and reduce lipofuscin deposition. Ningxia wolfberry is rich in carotene, vitamin E, selenium, flavonoids and other antioxidant active substances. The antioxidant effect is the result of the combined action of multiple antioxidant active substances it contains. Lycium barbarum polysaccharides are also an important antioxidant component in wolfberry. They can significantly reduce the LPO content in the spleen homogenate of experimental animals and have a significant protective effect on lipid antioxidant damage caused by CCl4.

Ganoderma

It is a traditional Chinese medicine for longevity. It not only has the function of scavenging O2- and OH-, but also can indirectly improve the body's ability to scavenge oxygen free radicals.

Schisandra

Its main active ingredients are biphenylcyclooctene lignans such as schisandrin, schisandrin B, and schisandrin C. Schisandra chinensis can not only play an antioxidant role by capturing oxygen free radicals, but also increase the activity of antioxidant enzymes in cells to eliminate free radicals. The molecular mechanism of Schisandra chinensis' antioxidant effect is similar to that of vitamin E (both have phenolic hydroxyl groups in their chemical structures that react with oxygen free radicals), and its effect is stronger than that of vitamin E.

After understanding what antioxidant drugs are, it is also necessary to use them correctly. Antioxidant drugs cannot be used casually, otherwise it will have an impact on yourself. In addition, if you feel uncomfortable during the use of antioxidant drugs, you should immediately undergo a physical examination. This is also something you should pay attention to.