TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

Traditional Chinese herbs are a very popular mode for the treatment of hyperpigmentation disorders. Two hundred nineteen kinds of herbs have been screened; among them 19 kinds have been shown to inhibit tyrosinase in vitro (64). The inhibitory effects of tyrosinase activity of Atractylodes macrocephala, Bombyx mori, Ligusticum sinense, Bletilla striata, Typhonium giganteum, Astragalus complanatus, Serissa erissoides, and Diospyros kaki were either superior or similar to that of arbutin (64).

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