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🌿 Herb

Lightyellow Sophora Root; Root of Lightyellow Sophora

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🌿 Names

Pinyin Name

Ku Shen

中文名 (Chinese)

苦参

Latin Name

Radix Sophorae Flavescentis; Sophorae Flavescentis Radix

English Name

Lightyellow Sophora Root; Root of Lightyellow Sophora

☯ TCM Properties

Properties (性味)

Bitter; Cold

Meridians (归经)

Heart; Liver; Stomach; Large Intestine; Bladder

Part Used

Dried root

Therapeutic Class (EN)

Heat-Clearing And Dampnessdrying Medicinal

功效分类 (CN)

清热燥湿药

🩺 Clinical Profile

Function (功能)

To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve cough and transform phlegm, quicken blood and resolve toxin.

Indication (主治)

Wind-damp impediment pain, cough of phlegm asthma, fracture due to knocks and falls, swollen sore of welling abscess and boil, galactostasis.

Clinical Manifestations

1. matrine and oxymatrine counter the arrhythmia induced by chloroform-adrenaline or aconitine, and its injection slows heart rate and weakens myocardial contractility in experimental animals.2. inhibitory on the contraction of sensitized guinea-pig intes

🔗 External References

HERB DB

HERB003167 ↗

SymMap

225 ↗

TCMID

2616

TCMSP

225

TCM-ID

1215

🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (30 fields)

name

Lightyellow Sophora Root; Root of Lightyellow Sophora

chinese name

苦参

pinyin name

Ku Shen

latin name

Radix Sophorae Flavescentis; Sophorae Flavescentis Radix

english name

Lightyellow Sophora Root; Root of Lightyellow Sophora

properties english

Bitter; Cold

meridians english

Heart; Liver; Stomach; Large Intestine; Bladder

use part

Dried root

symmap herb id

225

tcmid id

2616

tcmsp id

225

herb id str

HERB003167

function text

To dispel wind and eliminate damp, relieve cough and transform phlegm, quicken blood and resolve toxin.

indication

Wind-damp impediment pain, cough of phlegm asthma, fracture due to knocks and falls, swollen sore of welling abscess and boil, galactostasis.

clinical manifestations

therapeutic en class

Heat-Clearing And Dampnessdrying Medicinal

therapeutic cn class

清热燥湿药

tcm id id

1215

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How relationships are computed

Clinical Trials / Meta-Analyses / References: direct foreign-key link via subject_entity_id (Phase 2d wireup)
Formula ↔ Herbs: text bridge via formulas.herbs_in_pinyin matching herbs.pinyin_name
Herb ↔ Ingredient: empty — needs HERB_herb_ingredient import
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Herb → Target → Disease (full chemical spine): awaiting Phase 2e link tables