Hai Jin Sha is the dried mature spores of Hai Jin Sha, family Hai Jin Sha. It is mainly produced in Guangdong and Zhejiang, and also produced in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi, Fujian and Shaanxi. It has the efficacy of clearing dampness and heat and relieving pain through gonorrhea, and is used to treat heat gonorrhea, stone gonorrhea, blood gonorrhea, cream gonorrhea, and astringent pain in the urethra.

Nutritional composition

Hai Jin Sha contains fatty oils, analyzed myristic acid (0.15%), palmitic acid (10.85%), hexadecenoic acid (0.55%), stearic acid (46%), oleic acid (48.77%), linoleic acid (39.56%), octadecatrienoic acid (0.35%), eicosapentadecanoic acid (0.88%) and so on, for heat gonorrhea, stone gonorrhea, It has a therapeutic effect on hot drenching, stony drenching, and astringent pain in the urethra.

Cholagogue

From the sea gold sand in the isolation of trans-coumaric acid can increase the amount of bile in rats, without increasing the concentration of bilirubin and cholesterol in the bile, cholagogue mechanism is to increase the secretion of water in the bile, is a water cholagogue, compare the cholagogue of trans-coumaric acid with the dehydrocholic acid cholagogue, the results showed that the cholagogue of dehydrocholic acid effect onset of action is faster than the trans-coumaric acid, dehydrocholic acid 1 hour to reach the maximum effect of the drug. The maximum effect was achieved 1 hour after dehydrocholic acid administration.

Hypoglycemic

The aqueous and alcoholic extracts of the roots and rhizomes of Hai Jin Sha showed hypoglycemic effects in mice with tetracycline-induced diabetes mellitus.

Antioxidant

Pure polysaccharides isolated from the sea gold sand can scavenge DPPH, superoxide anion radicals and hydrogen peroxide, chelate with metals and inhibit liposome peroxidation, and the antioxidant activity is positively correlated with the amount of sample added.