Antioxidant Effect of Schisandra Chinensis

Natural products are the biggest source of food and nƵƚrŝtiŽn in human history; the people were feeding the products from the nature as long as the life was in ĞxŝƐtinŐ͘ People also used the natural products as medicine. Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. is famous element that is useful in Chinese ƚrĂĚŝtiŽnĂů medicine and recognized by western herbal medicine. I aimed this script to demonstrate the ĂntiŽxŝĚĂnƚ ĞīĞcƚ of Schisandra chinensis. ŌĞr carefully reviewing an enormous number of researches about Schisandra chinensis and its ĂntiŽxŝĚĂnƚ ĞīĞcƚ͕ I found that Schisandra chinensis is enriched with many ĞƐƐĞntiĂů chemicals that can be used as the remedy of ĚŝīĞrĞnƚ ailments. Beside the polysaccharides found in Schisandra chinensis, also it was underlined that schisandrol A, schisandrol B, schisandrin B, schizandrin, schisantherin B, schisantherin A, schisanhenol, deoxyschizandrin are the key elements of schisandra chinensis ’ s ĂntiŽxŝĚĂnƚ ĞīĞcƚ͘ Basically schisandra chinensis shows its ĂntiŽxŝĚĂnƚ ĞīĞcƚ by helping the natural intracellular ƉrŽƚĞctiŽn against radical ĂƩĂcŬƐ͘ In this era the qƵĂntiƚy of incurable diseases are high, while another more diseases can be cured with huge cost or their cƵrĂtivĞ period take too long. So, in order to ĮnĚ an ƵůtimĂƚĞ ƐŽůƵtiŽn for current medical problems, we need to study more about schisandra chinensis.