六十年代以来,国外对植物药的研究,特别是植物药成分的研究,进展很大。主要寻找防病治病的活性物质方面。五十年代初运用植物化学手段,从印度民间植物药夹竹挑科植物蛇根木(Ranw-olfia serpentine)发现利血平治疗高血压取得效果之后,六十年代,在寻找肿瘤新药研究中,又从夹竹挑科常春花属(Catbar-unthus Roseus G Don)分离出有效生物碱(Vinblastine)和长春新碱(Vincristine),临床上用它们的硫酸 Since the 1960s, research on botanicals abroad, especially on botanical ingredients, has made great progress. The main search for disease prevention and treatment of active substances. In the early 1950s, after the use of phytochemical methods and the discovery of reserpine in the treatment of hypertension from the Indian folk plant medicinal plant Ranw-olfia serpentine, in the 1960s, in the search for new drugs for tumors, The effective alkaloids (Vinblastine and Vincristine) were isolated from Catbar-unthus Roseus G Don, and their sulfuric acid was clinically used.