We would like to thank National Natural Science Foundation (81774126, 81803964), Key Project Funded by Hunan traditional Chinese medicine administration (201711), Open Project Funded by Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory (20160214), Open Project Funded by Innovation Platform of Education department of Hunan Province (17K067), Doctor start-up Foundation of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (9982-1001019), Science and Technology Innovation Team in Colleges and Universities in Hunan Province《Chinese traditional medicine for treatment of infectious diseases》(No: 15) and Key Subjects of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine《Basic medicine》(NO.1) for the financial support. We also thank Gabrielle David, PhD, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.