According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Ilex pubescens has the effects of nourishing liver, protecting liver and clearing away heat.
Distributed in China, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Hainan, Hongkong, Guangxi and Guizhou. ?
It grows in the evergreen broad-leaved forest on the hillside at an altitude of (60-) 100- 1000 meters, or on the edge of the forest, in bushes, beside streams and roadsides. ? It has wide adaptability, is resistant to early drying and barren, and can adapt to mountain soil types such as red soil and yellow soil widely distributed in southern China. At the same time, it is shade-tolerant, and it can still grow well in evergreen broad-leaved forest with canopy density above 0.8.
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"Traditional Chinese medicine" is not "non-toxic" and only effective if it is used scientifically.
The potential hepatotoxicity of Chinese herbal medicines is not new, and it has been expounded as early as the book Compendium of Materia Medica. It has long been known that some plants, such as bitter almond, cassava, Sophora tonkinensis, menispermum dauricum, Artemisia argyi, Ilex pubescens, Dioscorea bulbifera, Xanthium sibiricum, Acer negundo, Melia azedarach, Senecio scandens and Trichosanthes, have hepatotoxicity.
The hepatotoxicity of Chinese herbal medicine can be the direct toxic effect of the drug itself or its metabolites, or it can be irregular with the processing process, or immune damage during the drug metabolism.
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