It is the dry aerial part of compositae plant Stichopus Japonicus or Stichopus Japonicus. Produced in most areas of China. Collect in bloom in summer and autumn, remove impurities, cut into sections, dry, and use raw or fresh.

≮ Delicious ≯ Sweet, bitter and cold. Heart tropism and liver meridian.

≮ Food Description ≯ This product is sweet and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat, cooling blood, stopping bleeding and clearing away heat and toxic materials, which is similar to Cirsium japonicum. But it can also induce diuresis, so it is an important medicine for treating hematuria and bloody stranguria.

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2. Detoxification and carbuncle elimination are used for heat toxic carbuncle swelling, oral administration or fresh mashed external application.

≮ Pharmacological knowledge ≯ 1, treatment of proteinuria: Cirsium japonicum 15g, lotus root 10g, Akebia Akebia 10g, and bamboo leaves 5g. Boil water, daily 1 dose, 3 times a day;

2, treatment of acute infectious hepatitis: fresh thistle 50g, fresh willow 50g. Add water 1000ml, fry to 200ml, twice, and take it 2 hours after meals.

≮ Active ingredients ≯ Contains alkaloids, saponins, etc.

≮ Clinical application ≯ 1 and oral infusion of 5g/kg in mice can obviously shorten the bleeding time. Chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid are the main hemostatic components;

2. The decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococcus, pneumococcus, diphtheria bacillus and tuberculosis bacillus.

3. Intravenous injection of decoction or tincture to animals has obvious pressor effect, at the same time, spleen volume is reduced and intestinal peristalsis is inhibited. Intramuscular injection also has pressor effect, but gastric administration has no obvious pressor effect;

4. It has certain anti-inflammatory effect on formaldehyde-induced arthritis in rats; It has sedative effect on mice.