[Research progress on polysaccharides in TCM for treatment of alcoholic liver injury]

Alcoholic liver injury is the pathological damage of the liver caused by long-term excessive drinking. With the development of traditional medicine, many TCMs have shown great advantages in the protection of alcoholic liver disease. As a kind of natural macromolecular substance, polysaccharides have biological activities such as inhibiting oxidative stress and regulating lipid metabolism and intestinal flora. Recent studies have shown that a variety of polysaccharides in TCM have protective effects on alcoholic liver disease. This study extensively consulted the Chinese and foreign literature on the research progress of polysaccharides in TCM for the treatment of alcoholic liver disease in recent five years in the databases of CNKI, Web of Science, PubMed, and so on, screened and summarized the relevant mechanisms and research progress, and made prospects, so as to provide a reference for the clinical prevention and treatment of alcoholic liver disease.