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Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal; Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike
Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal; Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike. Class: Fire Purging Drugs. Properties: Pungent; Bitter; Cold. Meridians: Liver; Gallbladder
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Xia Ku Cao
中文名 (Chinese)
夏枯草
Latin Name
Spica Prunellae; Prunellae Spica
English Name
Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal; Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike
Alias Names
夕句乃东燕面麦夏枯铁色草棒柱头花灯笼头棒槌草锣锤草牛牯草广谷草棒头柱六月干夏枯头大头花灯笼草古牛草牛佤头丝线吊铜钟
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Pungent; Bitter; Cold
Meridians (归经)
Liver; Gallbladder
Part Used
Spike
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Fire Purging Drugs
功效分类 (CN)
清热泻火药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To quench fire of the liver and counteract inflammation of the eye, and to reduce modulation and induce subsidence of swelling.
Indication (主治)
Red eyes with gall, eyeball night pain, headache and dizziness, scrofula, goiter and tuberculosis, mammary welling abscess, thyroid enlargement, scrofula, hyperplasia of mammary glands, hypertension.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its decoction (100mg/kg) for intravenous injection is hypotensive ondogs.2. its dilute decoction increases contractive power of toad and rabbits hearts in vitro, while concentrate decoction decreases.3. anti-inflammatory and bacteriostatic.4. adding th
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PMID 32182802
Prunellae Spica Extract Suppresses Teratoma Formation of Pluripotent Stem Cells through p53-Mediated Apoptosis
Nutrients · 2020
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