New application of scutellarin

The invention relates to the technical field of medicine, in particular to a new application of scutellarin, and provides the application of the scutellarin in preparing medicine for reducing pathological changes of kidney tissue and the application of the scutellarin in preparing medicine for treating nephritis. The new application of the scutellarin is proved by experiments to show that the intragastric administration is continuously performed on nephritis model rats with the scutellarin in the dose of 20 mg/kg and 40 mg/kg for eight weeks, the proteinuria of the model animals can be obviously reduced, hypoproteinemia, hyperlipidemia and the hypercoagulable state of blood can be corrected, the serum lipid peroxidation product content of the model rats can be lowered, the expression of TNF-alpha in the kidney tissue can be inhibited, and a protection effect on the kidney tissue and a good improvement effect on the kidney function are achieved; in addition, the maximum dose of intragastric administration on the rats is equal to and more than 18 g/kg, and obvious acute toxicity reaction and death do not occur on the animals.