Efficacy of combination of needle extract, hesperidin and vitamin C in treatment of chronic venous diseases

BACKGROUND: In Russia, physicians are virtually unaware of drugs based on needle extract. However, abroad, saponins and, in particular, a combined preparation containing needle extract, hesperidin and vitamin C is one of drugs of choice, if not the leading medication in treatment of venous oedemas and other venous symptoms.

AIM: The authors conducted a systematic review of the Russian-and English-language literature using the following search terms: saponins, hesperidin, needle, ruscus, ruscogenin (and their Russian equivalents), each of which was entered in a combination with the word 'venous' or its Russian equivalent, respectively.

RESULTS: Ruscogenin and neoruscogenin from the root of needle possess anti-inflammatory properties and induce venous wall contraction, thus making it possible to use needle extract in treatment of chronic venous insufficiency. It was experimentally determined that needle extract stimulates vein contractility, decreasing permeability of the venous wall, influencing extracellular matrix proteins, inhibiting leukocyte migration through regulation of both proteins and matrix ribonucleic acid. Analysed herein are the results of original studies of a combination of needle extract, flavonoid hesperidin methyl chalcone and ascorbic acid, also examining in detail the mechanism of action conditioned by synergism of pharmacological effects of these components. This is followed by discussing the place of saponins in the classification of phlebotropic drugs and comparing efficacy of needle root extract with that of other phlebotonics.

CONCLUSION: It was experimentally determined that a combination of needle extract, hesperidin and vitamin C possesses multiple additive phlebotropic effects. According to clinical trials, it leads to relief of most symptoms and a decrease in the ankle volume (high level of evidence 1A), being not inferior by clinical efficiency and duration of action to the best-known flavonoids, whereas by the venotonizing effect, decreased permeability of the vascular wall, and inhibition of leukocytic aggression even superior thereto. Further experimental and clinical studies of efficacy of this combination for various forms of chronic venous diseases and venous thromboses are warranted.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Angiologiia i sosudistaia khirurgiia = Angiology and vascular surgery - 27(2021), 2 vom: 25., Seite 82-91

Sprache:

Russisch

Weiterer Titel:

Éffektivnost' kombinatsii ékstrakta iglitsy, gesperidina i vitamina S v lechenii khronicheskikh zabolevaniĭ ven

Beteiligte Personen:

Shaĭdakov, E V [VerfasserIn]
Rosukhovskiĭ, D A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ascorbic Acid
Ascorbic acid
E750O06Y6O
Flavonoids
Hesperidin
Journal Article
Needle extract
Norepinephrine
PQ6CK8PD0R
Plant Extracts
Saponins
Systematic Review
Venoactive drugs
Venotonics
Venous oedema
Venous symptoms

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.06.2021

Date Revised 28.06.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.33529/ANGIO2021208

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM327135530