Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment for Obesity by Intervening Autophagy:A Review
Overweight and obesity are prevalent all over the world,threatening public health.Modern medical research has shown that obesity is closely related to autophagy.In traditional Chinese medicine,the treatment of obesity by regulating autophagy has attracted the interest of scholars.Through literature analysis,this paper reviews the compounds in Chinese medicinals,Chinese medicine prescriptions,and traditional Chinese medicine therapies targeting the autophagy in obesity,and summarizes the relevant autophagy targets,signal pathways,and action mechanisms,which is expected to serve as a reference for further exploring the active components in Chinese medicine for obesity and the mechanisms.
AutophagyObesityTraditional Chinese medicineResearch progress