The present invention relates to uses of a benzophenone compound and analogues thereof having a symmetrical core structure and having same or different number of hydroxyl substitutions in benzene rings in the preparation of drugs for preventing and treating viral infections and anti-tumor drugs, in particular the use in the preparation of drugs for preventing and treating HIV, herpes virus and papillomavirus infection and the diseases induced thereby, wherein such viral infections include AIDS, genital warts, flat warts, common warts, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, vaginitis, cervicitis, cervical erosion and senile dementia, as well as cervical cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer and colon cancer induced thereby. Pharmacological tests have demonstrated that it has a very high inhibitory activity against multiple viruses and anti-tumor growth. The use is to prepare the hydroxy-substituted benzophenones and analogues thereof together with various compatible excipients into different medicaments or personal disinfected sanitary articles.
