“Сhinese date” - elite plant drug of the ancient Asiatic traditional medicines

Abstract

The assimilation of traditional medicines experience is declared by World Health Organization as a priority direction of medicine development in XXI century. A lot of experimental and clinical results demonstrated the highest effectiveness of Zizyphus jujubа eatable fruits and leaves (tea substitute) in treating the patients with hypertension and its complications. Water infusions and decoctions of this thing posess antihypertensive, antineurotic, diuretic, antiatherogenic and some other actions. Author’s own clinical experience including usage of Zizyphus jujubа fruits and leaves in polycomponent plants species permits to register truth lowering of high blood pressure, vessel catastrophes: strokes, infarctions, transit ischemic attacks. Hypertonic disease and its complications is “the killer number one”, so expressing introduction this elite plant drug of traditional medicines is very actual task. (For citation: Barnaulov OD. “Сhinese date” - elite plant drug of the ancient Asiatic traditional medicines. Reviews on Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. 2018;16(1):71-78. doi: 10.17816/RCF16171-78).