Effects of Chicken Bone Grass:

Sweet, slightly bitter, cool. Returns to liver and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, soothing the liver and dispersing blood stasis. Functions and Indications: Clearing heat and detoxifying, soothing the liver and relieving pain. Used for jaundice, flank discomfort, epigastric distension and pain; acute and chronic hepatitis, mastitis. Treats jaundice, hepatitis, stomach pain, mastitis, scrofula, bruises and blood stasis pain .

The effects of chicken bone grass:

1. Effect on intestinal smooth muscle. For the normal isolated rabbit ileum, chicken bone grass root decoction can significantly enhance its contraction amplitude. Gastric or intramuscular injection of the decoction can also increase the tension of the existing intestinal tube and slightly enhance peristalsis. In the isolated guinea pig ileum test, the high-concentration decoction had a significant inhibitory effect on the contraction caused by acetylcholine, but only slightly inhibited the contraction caused by histamine. Inhibition, no effect on those caused by barium chloride.

2. Enhance the swimming endurance of mice. Oral administration of 5g/kg of chicken bone grass root decoction can significantly enhance the swimming endurance of mice.

3. Other effects: The crude saponins of C. elegans have a significant protective effect on liver damage caused by carbon tetrachloride (CCl4).

Effects of Xihuangcao:

Clear heat and promote dampness , cooling blood and dispersing blood stasis. Treat acute hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, dysentery, enteritis, abscess, bruises and swelling. ①Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": clearing away heat, diuresis, and reducing yellowing. Treat acute jaundice hepatitis and acute cholecystitis. ② "Color Atlas of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": clears the liver and promotes gallbladder, reduces jaundice and removes dampness, cools blood and disperses blood stasis. Treat acute hepatitis, bruises and swelling.

The effects of xihuangcao:

The active ingredients of xihuangcao are xanthophyllin A and urophyllin A, which have anti-cancer activity and have significant effects on human cervical cancer cells. inhibitory effect.

Clear heat and dampness, cool blood and disperse blood stasis. Treat acute hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, dysentery, enteritis, abscess, bruises and swelling.

Icteric hepatitis: Symptoms include jaundice of the skin and sclera, aversion to cold, fever, fatigue, poor appetite, dull pain in the liver area, enlarged liver and spleen, yellow urine, red tongue with thin yellow coating, and stringy and slippery pulse. .

Acute cholecystitis: Symptoms include aversion to cold and fever, pain in the right upper abdomen, involving the right shoulder and back, dry mouth, nausea and vomiting, or accompanied by dry and hard stools, diarrhea, jaundice, etc.

It is a perennial herb in its original form, 60-80 cm tall. Stem erect, square, branched, slightly hairy. The leaves are opposite, papery, with yellow sap when rubbed; ovate to ovate-elliptical. 3-9 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, short pointed apex, broad wedge-shaped base, coarsely serrated edges, covered with sparse short fine hairs above, nearly hairless below, with reddish-brown glandular spots; stipe. The flowers are small, lavender, integrated into cymes and arranged into axillary panicles; the calyx is bell-shaped, with 5 teeth and 2 lips, which increases in size during fruiting, with reddish-brown gland spots and sparse short hairs on the outside; the corolla has 2 lips, The upper lip is short, with 4 lobes, the lobes are wide and reflexed, the lower lip is boat-shaped, whole edge, longer than the upper lip; there are 4 stamens, 2 long and 2 short, extending outside the corolla tube. The fruit consists of 4 small nuts, hidden at the base of the calyx. The flowering period is from May to October.

Habitat distribution occurs along streams, ditches or in moist valleys. It is cultivated in Guangzhou. Distributed in central, southern and southwest my country.

The chemical composition contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids, and organic acids.

Attached Recipes

①Treatment of acute jaundice hepatitis: Xihuangcao mixed with wood sorrel and wire grass, decocted in water and taken.

②Treatment of acute cholecystitis with jaundice: Xihuangcao mixed with Tianjihuang, Artemisia wormwood, chicken bone grass, plantain, decoction in water.

③ To treat dysentery due to dampness and heat: fresh leaves of Yixi Huangcao, pound the juice and drink it; Erxi Huangcao is mixed with Tianxianglu and wild peony, decoct in water and take it. (①The following prescriptions are from "Traditional Chinese Medicine")

④Treatment of dysentery and enteritis: fresh Artemisia annua leaves. Wash, make juice and take internally. Five milliliters once a day, two to three milliliters for children. ("Selected Exhibitions·Infectious Diseases")

⑤ To treat pruritus: 2 liang of fresh fragrant tea vegetables, 1 liang of fresh Shiwei and fresh plantain. Decoction in water and take. (Jiangxi "Herbal Medicine Manual")