Scutellaria baicalensis efficacy and effect

Scutellaria baicalensis efficacy and effect, this is a kind of food we often eat in our life, in traditional Chinese medicine it has the effect of replenishing qi and benefiting the blood, it has a lot of benefits for the conditioning of the human body, especially suitable for the stomach and lungs of the people who consume it, clear scutellaria baicalensis efficacy and effect, in order to live a better life.

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(a) Scutellaria baicalensis efficacy

Scutellaria baicalensis is bitter in flavor and cold in nature. It belongs to the lung, gallbladder, spleen, large intestine and small intestine meridians. It is used to clear heat and dry dampness, diarrhea and detoxification, stop bleeding, and stabilize the fetus. It is used in treating dampness, summer temperature, chest congestion and vomiting, damp-heat plumpness, diarrhea, jaundice, lung-heat cough, high fever and thirst, blood-heat epistaxis, carbuncle, swollen sores and poison, and restlessness of the fetus.

Ben Cao Tu Jing : Zhang Zhongjing treatment of typhoid fever heart under the plumpness, diarrhea heart soup in all four directions with Scutellaria baicalensis, in order to its Lord of all the heat, the benefit of the small intestine, so also. And sun disease under the Li more than, have Ge Gen Scutellaria baicalensis Huang Huanglian soup; and the main pregnancy and fetal loose, but also more with Scutellaria baicalensis.

"Medical Qiyuan": Scutellaria baicalensis, the treatment of dampness and heat in the lungs, the treatment of heat in the eyes swollen red, blood stasis Monopoly Sheng, the drug must be used. The fire in the lungs is drained upward in the septum, and the cold water of the bladder is not enough to nourish the source of the chemical.

"Yunnan Materia Medica": upward diarrhea lung fire, downward diarrhea bladder fire, (treatment) men with five gonorrhea, women's avulsions, regulating menstruation and clearing the heat, the fetus has a fire-heat restlessness, clearing the fetal heat, in addition to the six meridians of the real fire and real heat.

"Compendium": treatment of wind-heat and damp-heat headache, hot pain in the dolphin, fire cough, lung impotence, throat, all blood loss.

Compendium of Materia Medica: the wither clearing the fire of the upper burner, eliminate phlegm and gas, set the asthma and coughing, stop blood loss, retreat from the cold and heat, wind-heat and damp-heat, headache, plague, clearing the pharynx, treatment of impotence and carbuncle, carbuncle, especially the method of the surface of the muscle of the heat, therefore, the treatment of rashes, rodent fistula, sores and ulcers, the red eye; the real cool lower burner of the heat, to remove the red diarrhea, heat in the urinary bladder, the five drenching and astringent pain, the closure of the large intestine, the blood in stools, the leakage of blood.

Scientific Folk Herbs: external wash wounds, antiseptic effect.

(2) Contraindications of Scutellaria baicalensis

"Materia Medica Jingshu": the spleen and lungs of those who are weak and hot to avoid. Where the cold for the leakage, cold abdominal pain, liver and kidney deficiency and less abdominal pain, blood deficiency abdominal pain, spleen deficiency diarrhea, kidney deficiency loose diarrhea, spleen deficiency edema, blood withered menstrual closure, qi deficiency of small water is not conducive to the lungs by the cold coughing, and blood deficiency tire restlessness, Yin deficiency gonorrhea, the law and prohibited.

Actions of Scutellaria baicalensis

Antibacterial

Scutellaria baicalensis has an inhibitory effect on a variety of Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria, pathogenic skin fungi.

Antiviral

Scutellaria baicalensis can inhibit influenza virus, hepatitis B virus.

Anti-inflammatory

Baicalein, baicalin can inhibit acute inflammatory reactions. Inhibit exudative swelling and increased capillary permeability in inflammatory models; inhibit rat adjuvant arthritis.

(1) Mechanism: inhibition of inflammatory mediator production, release.

(2) Inhibition of histamine release

(3) Anti arachidonic acid metabolism, inhibition of prostaglandin E (PGE), leukotriene (LT) production, attenuation of inflammatory mediators vasodilatation, increase in vascular wall permeability, leukocyte chemotaxis.

Effect on immune function

Scutellaria baicalensis is able to inhibit immune reactions: especially on type I metamorphosis (allergic reaction) has a significant effect. Scutellaria baicalensis is able to improve the immune function of the body because of baicalin, which improves the function of macrophages and NK cells.

Clearing heat and detoxification

Studies have shown that Scutellaria baicalensis has antipyretic properties. Scutellaria baicalensis has a detoxifying effect related to the glucuronic acid it contains.

Hepatoprotective and choleretic

According to Chinese medicine, Scutellaria baicalensis clears the liver and gallbladder, protects the liver, and is associated with resistance to oxygen free radical damage.

Sedation

Scutellaria baicalensis is centrally inhibited and can have a sedative effect.

Effects on the blood system

Scutellaria baicalensis has a complex effect on the blood system, with baicalein and others being able to inhibit platelet aggregation; it is anticoagulant and can inhibit thrombin-induced fibrin production.

Anti-metamorphic reactions

In terms of anti-metamorphic reactions, baicalin is stronger than glycosides. Scutellaria baicalensis has no allergic reaction to this antimutagenic reaction, and in addition it has a direct relaxing effect on the smooth muscle itself. Both baicalin and baicalein can inhibit allergic swelling and inflammation, and both can ear capillary permeability.

Lowering blood pressure

Scutellaria baicalensis tincture, infusion, decoction, alcohol or aqueous extract, baicalin can cause antihypertensive effect. The infusion orally reduces normal and chronic renal hypertension, and the tincture brings neurogenic hypertension back to normal.

Diuretic effect

In acute diuretic experiments, baicalin has the strongest effect, followed by baicalein. Scutellaria baicalensis alcohol extract and decoction also have diuretic effect.

Effect on blood sugar and blood lipids

Scutellaria baicalensis can reduce blood lipids, and can cause a mild increase in blood sugar.

Antispasmodic effect

Scutellaria baicalensis eliminates the symptoms of tonic spasms.

Anti-fetal effect

Scutellaria baicalensis has the effect of clearing heat and tranquilizing the fetus, can be used for fetal restlessness, and is often used in conjunction with Atractylodes macrocephala and Bamboo Roots.

Treatment of some diseases

(1) Treatment of acute and chronic upper respiratory tract infections, bronchitis, pneumonia, bronchodilator infections, interstitial lung inflammation and other respiratory diseases. It can also be used for tuberculosis.

(2) Treatment of acute and chronic enteritis, dysentery, ulcerative colitis, acute and chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer.

(3) Treatment of allergic rhinitis, allergic pneumonia, bronchial asthma.

(4) Treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis, liver disease, elevated aminotransferases, bilirubin, as well as chronic cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, also used in immunity

(5) Epidemiologic liver disease.

(6) Treatment of various immune and allergic diseases, such as lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and other connective tissue diseases.

(7) Treatment of urticaria, atopic dermatitis and other skin allergic diseases, as well as allergic purpura. It is also commonly used in the treatment of hypertension, urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis, prostatitis, and various inflammatory diseases of the skin and eyes.

(8) Scutellaria baicalensis charcoal treats all kinds of bleeding. Scutellaria baicalensis was traditionally used for malignant obstruction of pregnancy and to preserve the fetus, and is also commonly used in modern clinics.

Anti-cancer effect

Scutellaria baicalensis can inhibit the production and spread of cancer cells to a certain extent.

◆ Anxiety

Pregnant women are more hot and dry, and Huang Cen in the treatment of pregnant women to improve the hot and dry, fetal restlessness has a vital effect, through the use of Huang Cen can help to achieve the effect of cooling the blood, of course, in the use of Huang Cen can be accompanied by Atractylodis macrocephala and Bamboo Roots and so on, but also by the This is a great way to help you to get the most out of your life.

◆ Clearing heat and removing dampness

Huang Cen can help to achieve the effect of clearing heat and removing dampness, for the diarrhea caused by dampness and heat and jaundice has a great effect.

Treating dampness and heat can use Huang Cen with slippery stone, Poria, etc., treating diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by dampness and heat, with Pueraria lobata, licorice, etc., the effect is better, for jaundice due to dampness and heat, Huang Cen with gardenia, and bamboo leaves have a better effect.

◆ Treatment of warm-heat disease

Huang Cen has excellent effect in the treatment of warm-heat disease. This type of disease is typically characterized by a rapid onset of change, often accompanied by the phenomenon of body heat, and by taking Huang Cen can be a way to improve the effect.

◆ Improvement of breast lumps and swelling pain

Huang Cen in the treatment of breast swelling pain in the presence of breast nodules has a good effect, of course, in the use of Huang Cen can also be used with Huang Bai, Chuanjun, and Huanglian, Boswellia serrata, will be the six medicines equal to the amount of selection and then ground into a fine powder in the way through the way of applying to the affected area has a visual effect. The effect is visualized by applying it to the affected area.

◆ Reduce Blood Pressure

Whichever way Huang Cen is made, it can be used to reduce blood pressure, either by decoction or by immersion, which can help to relieve neurogenic hypertension.

◆ Improve the blood system

Huang Cen also has a certain effect on the blood system, can help inhibit platelet aggregation, there is a certain role in anti-coagulant, and naturally, it can also alleviate thrombosis, but also can alleviate the emergence of cardiovascular disease.

From the above content can be known that the efficacy of Huang Cen can be quite a lot, many people directly choose Huang Cen as a tea, but Huang Cen is, after all, a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, in the take before you need to know whether they are suitable.

These three kinds of people are not suitable for taking huangcen

▲ Fasting crowd

If you drink huangcen water on an empty stomach, you will have a drunkenness phenomenon, because the water will dilute the gastric acid to harm the digestion, and huangcen directly on the gastric mucous membrane will also harm the stomach.

▲ gastric ulcer patients

Huangzen tea is actually a gastric acid secretion stimulant, so after drinking it will lead to a large number of gastric acid, for gastric ulcer patients, the situation itself is more serious will be aggravated.

▲ ▲ spleen and stomach cold people with caution

Huang Cen's heat effect is very significant, and for the weak people of the spleen and stomach, but not suitable, in particular, there is also a small amount of loose food people must be disabled.

Huang Cen's production method is also very simple, in addition to decoction of water to drink made into a tea, can also be placed in the porridge, but before eating must understand their own constitution is suitable, and this point needs to be after the professional judgment can be understood.