Comparative study of two types of bioactive epimedium for osteoporosis treatment in an ovariectomized rat model

摘要

Osteoporosis is a systemic metabolic disease causing a reduction of bone mass and strength, and an increase infracture risk consequently. Traditional Chinese Herbs, e.g. Epimedium are often used as amajor composition to formulate herbal formula for osteoporosis treatment.Different locality of herbs may cause different properties that would be adecision of herbal formula selection for R&D of anti-osteoporosis herbaldrugs. This study aims to compare the efficacy of two Epimedium species,namely Epimedium koreanum Nakai (X1) and Epimedium pubescens Maxim(X2).