[Progress on chemical components and anti-cerebral injury effects of storax]

The Chinese medicine storax is one of the resuscitation-inducing aromatic herbs used to treat stoke, epilepsy, convulsion, etc. In this review, authors summarized the progress on chemical compositions and anti-cerebral injury effects of storax. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) were used to determine the main chemical compositions of storax . And the anti-cerebral ischemia, anti-convulsion, and anti-memory defect effects of storax and its compound preparation were discussed. At last, authors have tried to propose a number of recommendations for the future research.