Prunella vulgaris antiviral activity

As a result of the intensive search for antiviral substances from medicinal plants, antiviral activity against HSV was found in extracts from Cedrela tubiflora Bertoni, leaves [79], from Prunella vulgaris L., a perennial plant commonly found in China, the British Isles and Europe [80] and from Trichilia glabra L. leaves [81]. Phytochemical studies indicate that these plants contain anionic PS as active constituents which may inhibit HSV by competing for cell receptors as well as by some unknown mechanisms after the virus has penetrated the cells. Furthermore, the in vitro antiviral activity demonstrated by extracts of the medicinal plant Achyrocline flaccida (Weinm.) D.C. on HSV-1 is exerted early during viral replication, essentially during viral adsorption to host... 

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