1.Drying dampness, expelling phlegm, and intercepting malaria
Xionghuang can dry dampness, expelling phlegm, and intercepting malaria when taken internally, and it can be used for the treatment of epilepsy, malaria, accumulation of lumps, and polyps in the nose and other illnesses, but because of its toxicity, it has been used less often nowadays.
2. Bacteriostatic
Andrographis in vitro on Staphylococcus aureus has a killing effect, increase the concentration can also kill Escherichia coli; 1% andrographis can inhibit the human type, bovine tuberculosis bacillus; its water immersion on the corynebacterium and other pathogenic skin fungi have different degrees of inhibition. In addition andrographis can be anti-vampire and malarial parasite.
3. Anti-tumor
Andrographis can play its anti-tumor role by inducing apoptosis of tumor cells, inhibiting cellular DNA synthesis, and enhancing cellular immune function of the body and other factors.
Expanded Information:
Androgesterone is the name of traditional Chinese medicine. For the sulfide mineral andrographis group andrographis, mainly containing arsenic disulfide (As2S2). Distributed in Hunan, Guizhou and other places. It has the effect of detoxifying and killing insects, drying dampness and expelling phlegm, and intercepting malaria. Commonly used in carbuncles and boils, snake and insect bites, worms and abdominal pain, epilepsy, malaria.
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Xionghuang, is the treatment of sores and kill poisonous drugs, and into the liver meridian qi, so the liver wind, liver qi, eclampsia, phlegm and saliva, headache and dizziness, malaria and dysentery, accumulation of various diseases, with the special effects; and can turn blood into water. And Fangshi is refining treatment service bait, God is different from what it says, by its poisonous people are many.
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