Use and Dosage

Decoction, 6 to 15 g. Appropriate amount for external use.

Attention to Use

Contraindicated for those with weak spleen and stomach, and those with little food and diarrhea.

Experimental research

1. Yellow flowers seaweed roots and rhizomes contain oleanolic acid, ivy saponin, a variety of saponins, and volatile oil, alkaloids, tannins and so on. White flowers contain volatile oil, dry fruiting branches contain black mustard glucoside, etc.; roots and rhizomes contain morronenoside, sapogenins, white flowers, such as sapogenins. Yellow flower septoria has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli; and antiviral effect; can promote hepatocyte regeneration, prevent hepatocellular degeneration, improve liver function. A large number of applications, but also caused temporary leukopenia and dizziness, nausea. The ethanol extract or volatile oil of the yellow flower septum have obvious sedative effect.

2. The whole herb with roots of perennial herb endive of the family of Asteraceae, is used habitually in North China and Northwest China. Cruciferae annual herb pennyroyal (Su sepsis) with fruit of the whole grass, for the north and south-central China used.

Clinical reports

1. For the treatment of enteritis and dysentery: 60g of septoria, 30g of amaranth, 15g of honeysuckle, 10g of licorice, decocted with water. (New Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine, page 42)

2. Treatment of canker sores and poisons: sepsis 50g, comfrey 20g. decocted in water, divided into two servings. If the disease is above the diaphragm, take it warmly 2 hours after meals; if the disease is below the diaphragm, take it warmly 2 hours before meals. (Essence of Traditional Chinese Medicine, p. 67)

3. Treatment of appendiceal abscess: 15g each of septoria, biflora, diclofenac sodium, Gongying, rhubarb, and amaranth. (The Essence of Eight Hundred Flavors of Commonly Used Chinese Medicines, p. 135)