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🌿 Herb

Great Burdock Achene; Achene of Great Burdock

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🌿 All Herb data fields for Great Burdock Achene; Achene of Great Burdock
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Niu Bang Zi
中文名 (Chinese)
牛蒡子
Latin Name
Arctil Fructus; Fructus Arctii
English Name
Great Burdock Achene; Achene of Great Burdock
Alias Names
恶实; 鼠粘子; 黍粘子; 大力子; 毛然然子; 黑风子; 毛锥子; 粘苍子; 大牛了; 牛子; 土大酮子; 万把钩; 鼠尖子
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Pungent; Bitter; Cold
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Stomach
Part Used
Fruit
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Pungent Cool Diaphoretics
功效分类 (CN)
辛凉解表药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To dispel wind-heat and relieve cough, to promote eruption, to counteract toxicity, and to soothe sore throat.
Indication (主治)
Wind-heat common cold, cough with profuse phlegm, measles papules, wind papules, swelling pain in throat, epidemic parotitis, erysipelas, swollen welling abscess and sore toxin.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its extract exerts a significant and prolonged effect of lowering blood sugar in rats.2. mildly diuretic and laxative.3. an active component, arctiin, can induce tonic convulsion, feeble respiration and eventually paralysis in frogs, mice and rabbits.
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SymMap
TCMID
3673
TCMSP
301
TCM-ID
1562
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (31 fields)
name
Great Burdock Achene; Achene of Great Burdock
chinese name
牛蒡子
pinyin name
Niu Bang Zi
latin name
Arctil Fructus; Fructus Arctii
english name
Great Burdock Achene; Achene of Great Burdock
properties english
Pungent; Bitter; Cold
meridians english
Lung; Stomach
use part
Fruit
symmap herb id
301
tcmid id
3673
tcmsp id
301
herb id str
HERB004191
function text
To dispel wind-heat and relieve cough, to promote eruption, to counteract toxicity, and to soothe sore throat.
indication
Wind-heat common cold, cough with profuse phlegm, measles papules, wind papules, swelling pain in throat, epidemic parotitis, erysipelas, swollen welling abscess and sore toxin.
clinical manifestations
1. its extract exerts a significant and prolonged effect of lowering blood sugar in rats.2. mildly diuretic and laxative.3. an active component, arctiin, can induce tonic convulsion, feeble respiration and eventually paralysis in frogs, mice and rabbits.
therapeutic en class
Pungent Cool Diaphoretics
therapeutic cn class
辛凉解表药
tcm id id
1562
alias name
恶实; 鼠粘子; 黍粘子; 大力子; 毛然然子; 黑风子; 毛锥子; 粘苍子; 大牛了; 牛子; 土大酮子; 万把钩; 鼠尖子
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