Effects:

Scutellaria baicalensis is bitter and cold in nature, belonging to the lungs, stomach, gallbladder, large intestine meridian, it has the function of clearing away heat and drying dampness, diarrhea, detoxification, and stabilizing the fetus, and can be used in all cases of dampness and heat. Scutellaria baicalensis is suitable for jaundice, diarrhea, fever, sores and carbuncles caused by damp-heat, acute fever, lung-heat cough, blood-heat hemorrhage and tie up poisonous sores and ulcers, etc., and is the first choice for lung-heat medicine.

Medicine Qiyuan said: "Scutellaria baicalensis, the treatment of dampness and heat in the lungs, the treatment of heat in the eyes swollen red, blood stasis and congestion, must be used in the drug." The Secret of the Lord's Treatment says: "There are nine uses for it: diarrhea of the lung meridian heat, one also; summer months must be used, two also. ''

''Upper Jiao and skin wind-heat, three also; to remove all heat, four also; women after childbirth, nourish yin and retreat yang, five also; benefit the chest qi, six also; eliminate phlegm on the diaphragm, seven also; in addition to the upper Jiao heat and spleen dampness, eight also; to stabilize the fetus, nine also.'' "

Translation: scutellaria baicalensis, a medicine that must be used to treat dampness and heat in the lungs, to treat upper heat with swollen and red eyes, and to treat the many diseases of blood and veins qui sai sheng." The Secrets of the Lord's Cure says: "It has nine actions: diarrhea of heat in the lung meridians, the first; to be used in summer, the second. ''

''Upper Jiao as well as wind-heat in the skin, Article 3; removing all heat, Article 4; after childbirth in women, nourishing yin and withdrawing yang, Article 5; benefiting the qi in the chest, Article 6; eliminating phlegm in the diaphragm, Article 7; removing heat in the upper Jiao as well as dampness in the spleen, Article 8; and settling the fetus. Article 9." ?

Not suitable for people:

Baicalin is bitter and cold, easy to destroy qi and hurt yin, and damage yang and stomach, so it should be avoided for people with deficiency heat, deficiency cold, loose stools, and those who have a cold fetus and want to fall. It should not be abused.

Expanded:

Modern medicine has found that Scutellaria baicalensis soup can reduce chemotherapy damage in bowel cancer.

Recently, researchers from Yale University School of Medicine and other institutions in the United States reported that animal experiments as well as preliminary clinical trials have shown that the traditional Chinese medicine Scutellaria baicalensis soup can reduce intestinal injuries caused by chemotherapy in patients with colon and rectal cancer. Scutellaria baicalensis soup, whose main ingredients are scutellaria baicalensis, white peony and licorice, is a heat-clearing drug.

The researchers first used the chemotherapy drug irinotecan to treat cancer-stricken lab rats. Irinotecan caused extensive damage to the intestinal lining of the mice while shrinking their tumors. The researchers then gave the mice PHY906, a laboratory form of Scutellaria baicalensis broth, and after a few days, the mice's damaged intestinal lining returned to normal.

The researchers found that PHY906 not only replenished healthy intestinal cells, but also blocked inflammatory cells from migrating to the intestines and reduced the inflammatory response. The researchers said their initial clinical tests on 17 colon and rectal cancer patients showed that baicalin soup was "promising."

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