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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 21 Progress in Hedyotis diffusa [Abstract] Hedyotis diffusa is a kind of heat-clearing and detoxifying, diuretic effect of swelling and other traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of cancer, all kinds of inflammation, skin diseases and other diseases. In recent years, quite a number of its research, this article Oldenlandia diffusa in recent years, the chemical composition, pharmacological effects and clinical applications of research are reviewed, for more in-depth study and application to provide the basis. [Keywords:] Hedyotis diffusa; chemical composition; pharmacological effect; clinical application of Hedyotis diffusa, also known as snake tongue grass, a fierce grass, tongue needle grass, white flowers cross grass, etc. for the genus Rubiaceae Hedyotis Hedyotis diffusa Hedyotis diffusa Willd. [Oldenlandia diffusa (Willd.) Roxb.] Of with all grass roots are annual herbaceous plants. In China, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei and other places are growing, summer and fall collection, washed, cut into sections, fresh or dried use. The nature of cold, sweet, hearts, liver, spleen, large intestine, small intestine through, with heat-clearing and detoxifying, diuretic swelling, promoting blood circulation and pain relief, detoxification and other effects Sanjie. Oral cough and asthma for Hyperactivity, sore throat, edema, hot shower, intestinal carbuncle dysentery, damp-heat jaundice, cancer and so on, external governance sore furuncle carbuncle swollen, snake bites [1 ~ 3]. For civil commonly used herbs. The chemical constituents of Hedyotis diffusa mainly anthraquinones, terpenoids, flavonoids, steroid alcohols, alkanes, organic acids, polysaccharides, coumarin and alkaloids and other classes. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that Hedyotis diffusa is capable of regulating immune activity, anti-chemical mutagenesis, anti-tumor, anti-bacterial anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and