The invention discloses application of cynaroside to preparation of a
medicine for treating or preventing hand-foot-and-mouth diseases. The hand-foot-and-mouth diseases are caused by an
enterovirus type 71, a type 16, type 4, type 5, type 7, type 9 and type 10 of a coxsackie
virus group A, a type 2 and type 5 of a coxsackie
virus group B or an
echovirus. The
medicine takes the cynaroside as an
active component and is mixed with a pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary material to prepare any one clinically acceptable
dosage form. The application disclosed by the invention provides a new way for treating the hand-foot-and-mouth diseases; the cynaroside can be developed as a new
medicine for preventing the hand-foot-and-mouth diseases; the toxic and side effects are small; the
lesion of infected cells is inhibited, a
dose-dependent effect is realized and the medicine is a broad-spectrum antiviral medicine;
virus replication is inhibited, the
virus load in host cells is reduced and viruses are promoted to become negative; the
case fatality rate is reduced or eliminated and the survival time of illness cases is prolonged; the content of
cell factors is reduced and inflammations caused by virus infection is alleviated; a plurality of administration manners are provided and the medicine can be administrated by injection and can also be orally taken.