Podophyllotoxin

Introduction
Podophyllotoxin is a plant-based resinous extract used in the treatment of condylomata acuminate, or genital warts. this extract is obtained from the roots of a native North American plant called podophyllum peltatum, or the mayapple. Native American tribes once used this plant to treat parasitic infections and snake bites and as a laxative and purgative. Podophyllotoxin has been used to treat genital warts since the 1930s.
Podophyllotoxin is an effective treatment for genital warts, because of its activity as an antimitotic. this means that it prevents virally infected wart cells from dividing. the wart virus requires actively growing cells in which to replicate, so by preventing growth of infected cells, the virus is destroyed. Eventually, this treatment causes the death of all virally infected cells and new growth of healthy uninfected cells.

Function&Application
1) treat cauliflower excrescence and epitheliomatosis
2) effectively inhibit the herpes virus,inhibit the cell metaphase mitosis,used for the toxicity of sexually transmitted diseases     

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