The role of traditional Chinese medicine

1. "Shennong Ben Cao Jing": "Main wind-damp, cold and heat evil qi, heat knot jaundice."

2. "Famous Doctors' Record": "Passing yellowing of the body, unfavorable urination, removing headache, and removing volatile obstruction."

3. "Introduction to Medicine": "Eliminates sores and scabies all over the body."

Western medicine

Pharmacological effects: Yin Chen has significant choleretic effect, and has antipyretic, hepatoprotective, anti-tumor and antihypertensive effects. Its decoction has inhibitory effect on human tuberculosis bacteria. Ethanol extract has inhibitory effect on influenza virus. The decoction has inhibitory effect on ECHD11 virus.

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Applications

1. Jaundice. This product is bitter and descending, cold and clear heat, good clear spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder dampness and heat, so that the small stool and out, for the treatment of jaundice of the key medicine. If the body and eyes yellow, urination short red yang yang evidence, often with gardenia, cypress, rhubarb, such as artemisia capillaris soup ("typhoid"); if jaundice wet heavy heat, can be used with poria, poria, such as yin chen wuling san ("jin qui yao liu"); if the spleen and stomach cold and damp stagnation, yang qi can't be declared yin yang, and more than with the epiphyllum, ginger and so on, such as yin chen si yi tuan soup ("health treasures - addendum").

2. Itchy wet sores. This product is bitter and slightly cold, has the function of detoxification and treatment of sores, so it can be used for dampness and heat within the wind itch hidden rashes, wet sores and itching, can be a single decoction of soup external wash, can also be used with cypress, bitter ginseng, ground skin and so on.

Use and dosage of decoction, 6 to 15 g. Appropriate amount for external use. Decoction soup fumigation.

Use Note: Caution should be exercised for those who accumulate blood to produce yellow and those who have blood deficiency to wither and yellow.

Modern research

1. Chemical constituents: Yin Chen contains volatile oil, the oil has β-pinene, Yin Chen diargene, Yin Chen kynone and other components. The whole herb also contains coumarin, flavonoids, organic acids, furans and other components.

2. Clinical studies: It is reported that, the decoction of the herb, decoction soup or gargle, the treatment of oral ulcers. The efficacy is remarkable (Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1985, 5:48). With Yin Chen, decoction of soup instead of tea, treatment of hyperlipidemia, with good effect.

Reference:Yin Chen Herb_Baidu Encyclopedia