Gentian grass for the Gentianaceae perennial herbaceous plants, such as the roots and stems of Gentian, mainly produced in the northeast, spring and fall can be harvested in autumn, the quality of those who harvested for the best. Gentian herb taste sweet, cold, specializing in clearing heat and dampness, its diarrhea of liver and gallbladder fire role is very strong, and can rest the wind spasm and pain. Alias LingYou, grass gentian, gentian, bitter gentian grass, ground gentian grass, gall bladder grass, mountain gentian, four-leaf gall bladder, water gentian.

Diarrhea of the liver to calm fear. Damp-heat jaundice, urinary drenching, damp-heat leucorrhea, liver and gallbladder fire of head swelling and headache, eye redness and pain, deafness and swelling of the ear, dystocia and bitter taste in the mouth, fever and convulsions. Appetite improves, physique strengthens, face is rosy, sleeps well, and pudenda gradually improves. It can lower stomach qi, firm stomach quality, its acid also, can replenish the acid juice in the stomach, digesting food and drink.

Main ingredients of gentian herb

Before understanding the effects and functions of gentian herb, first of all, let's take a look at what are the main ingredients of gentian herb, and what is its nature and flavor, gentian herb is a kind of common medicine, it's cold, bitter taste, mainly contains gentian bitter glycosides, glycosides, swertia bitter glycosides and other ingredients, with heat and dryness of the dampness, diaphoresis, and so on. It has the efficacy of clearing heat and drying dampness, diarrhea, calming alarm and so on. Its specific components are as follows:

1. Alkaloids: such as gentian alkaloids, gentian yellow alkaloids.

2. Glycosides: Gentian root contains glycosides, gentianoside, swertia bitter glycoside, when the medicine bitter glycoside, tetraacetyl gentianoside, trilobalide, bitternin and so on.

3. Other: also contains gentian trisaccharides and so on.

Pharmacological effects of gentian herb

1, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory

Gentian decoction has different degrees of inhibition of a variety of pathogenic bacteria.

Gentian alkaloids and gentian liquid oral or intraperitoneal injection has a significant anti-inflammatory effect, and is 4 to 7 times stronger than sodium salicylate. Gentian injection can significantly promote the phagocytosis of inflammatory cells.

2, hepatoprotective, choleretic, stomachic

This product has a protective effect on carbon tetrachloride liver damage, can reduce the degeneration and necrosis of liver tissue cells, and has the effect of lowering transaminases.

It can contract the gallbladder and increase the secretion of bile and have the effect of favoring bile.

Gentian bitter glycosides can promote the secretion of gastric juice and gastric acid in small amount, and have gastric effect; it can inhibit the secretion in large amount, reduce appetite, and hinder digestion.

3, immune regulation

Gentian has the effect of inhibiting antibody production. Gentian diarrhea liver soup injection can make mice thymus weight increase, promote the phagocytosis of abdominal macrophages and lymphocyte transformation.

Gentian diarrhea liver soup has anti-allergic effect, can make histamine-induced allergic reactions significantly reduced.

4, sedative, antihypertensive, diuretic

Gentian has a sedative effect on mice, and anesthetic effect occurs in larger doses, and has a very weak antagonistic effect on convulsions.

Tincture of gentian and gentianine have the effect of lowering blood pressure.

Gentian herb also has significant diuretic properties.