Analysis and research progress on the anticancer effects of Scutellaria barbata

The most common anti-cancer therapy is to use chemotherapy drugs, but this drug has huge side effects on the patient's body, so some doctors want to study whether there are other natural drugs that can fight cancer and have fewer side effects. And Scutellaria barbata is one of the natural drugs studied by doctors. Scutellaria barbata is often used in traditional Chinese medicine to assist in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, hoping to reduce the harm of cancer cells to patients. In the database, current doctors have "dissected" the effective ingredients of Scutellaria barbata into five categories. This article analyzes three of them, including flavonoids, polysaccharides and alkaloids. This article analyzes the research on Scutellaria barbata in anti-cancer, and obtained many clinically effective case results and some proven effective ingredients. This article can provide some useful references for future research ideas, but there is still a research gap on how to extract the effective anti-cancer ingredients of Scutellaria barbata and study drugs that can effectively inhibit cancer. Future research can focus on the direction of chemical components of Scutellaria barbata.