Natural Medicines Newsletter

Volume 2, Issue 8, 02/23/2010

Question

Which Vietnamese herbs or natural medicines are known to be inhibitors of xanthine oxidase and potentially useful for treating hyperuricemia or gout?

Answer

This is a continuation of the identification of herbs and natural medicines that are known to be inhibitors of xanthine oxidase (XO) in patients with chronic hyperuricemia or gout.  Please refer to the past issues related to natural medicines for general background information. 

Those Vietnamese herbs or natural medicines of potential clinical relevance or importance are summarized in the table below.1  All of these herbal extracts were compared to allopurinol which had an...

The full answer to this issue contains a table summarizing all of the Vietnamese herbs and their pharmacokinetic characteristics in the inhibition of xanthine oxidase.