我国劳动人民使用海藻作为药物已有千年以上的历史。例如使用含碘量高的海藻治疗甲状腺肿(大瘿病),利用海藻作为降低血压的药物等等。又如从一种红藻,海人草(Digenea simplex)萃取药物,作为杀虫药(俗称鹧鹕菜)。在许多海藻药物中,最常用的有:琼脂、卡拉胶以及褐藻胶。以褐藻胶为例,近 Our working people have been using seaweed as a medicine for more than a thousand years. For example, the use of high iodine content of seaweed treatment of goiter (rickets), the use of seaweed as a medicine to lower blood pressure and so on. Another example from a red algae, sea grass (Digenea simplex) extract drugs, as insecticide (commonly known as partridge dishes). Among the many seaweed drugs, the most commonly used are: agar, carrageenan and alginate. Take alginate as an example