Effects and functions of Scutellaria baicalensis

Taste: bitter, cold.

Attributive meridians: to the lungs, gallbladder, spleen, stomach [2], large intestine, small intestine meridians.

Attending functions: clearing heat and drying dampness, diarrhea and detoxification, stopping bleeding, tranquilizing the fetus, lowering blood pressure. It is used in treating damp-heat, summer-heat, chest congestion and vomiting, damp-heat plumpness, diarrhea, jaundice, lung-heat cough, high fever and thirst, blood-heat and epistaxis, carbuncle, swelling and sores, and restlessness of the fetus.

Contraindications

1, maintain good work and rest habits, try to avoid staying up all night.

2, eat less spicy or stimulating food.

Extended information

Other effects

Baicalin 10, 20mg/kg intravenous injection, diuretic effect on anesthetized dogs. Scutellaria baicalensis decoction 4g/kg by gavage has preventive effect on galactose cataract in rats, and can delay the formation of cataract. Baicalin inhibited rat crystal aldose reductase, with an ID50 of 1.81×10(-3) mg/ml.

Baicalin 150 mg/kg by gavage did not significantly reduce blood glucose level in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats, but erythrocyte sorbitol content was significantly reduced after the treatment, suggesting that aldolase inhibition also occurs in the animal body, and it is possible to be used in the prevention and treatment of diabetes mellitus. sexual complications.

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