COMPOSITIONS OF FLAVONOIDS AND FLAVONOID-CONTAINING EXTRACTS AND THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES

摘要

In this invention we describe a group of flavonoids and flavonoid-containing extracts that have pharmaceutical properties which are useful in the medicinal therapy of fibrotic diseases for the treatment or reparation and prevention of fibrotic lesional tissues. Representative flavonoids and flavonoid-containing extracts have the active compositions of the below formula (I). Those compositions can be extracted and purified from the botanicals, including Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Scutellaria scordifolia Fish, Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent, Plantago major L. The compositions of the invention are novel as an anti-fibrotic drugs, as agents for treating fibrosis.