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🌿 Herb

Castor Seed

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Clinical Trials

Meta-Analyses

PubMed References

Top Conditions Studied with Castor Seed

Prostheses-related Infections 1

📋 Sample Trials

NCT01732744

A Castor Bean Solution for Cleaning Dentures

Completed

📊 Sample Meta-Analyses

None linked yet.

📚 Sample References

None linked yet.

🌿 All Herb data fields for Castor Seed

🌿 Names

Pinyin Name

Bi Ma Zi

中文名 (Chinese)

蓖麻子

Latin Name

Ricini Semen; Semen Ricini

English Name

Castor Seed

Alias Names

萆麻子; 蓖麻仁; 大麻子; 红大麻子

☯ TCM Properties

Properties (性味)

Sweet; Pungent; Calm; Toxic

Meridians (归经)

Large Intestine; Lung

Part Used

Ripe seed

Therapeutic Class (EN)

External Medicinal (Draw Out Toxin, Resolve Putridity)

功效分类 (CN)

拔毒化腐生肌药

🩺 Clinical Profile

Function (功能)

To induce subsidence of swelling and remove toxic substances, to cause purgation.

Indication (主治)

Swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, throat impediment, scrofula, dry stool.

Toxicity

Toxic

🔗 External References

HERB DB

HERB000432 ↗

SymMap

44 ↗

TCMID

5699

TCMSP

TCM-ID

168

🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (31 fields)

name

Castor Seed

chinese name

蓖麻子

pinyin name

Bi Ma Zi

latin name

Ricini Semen; Semen Ricini

english name

Castor Seed

properties english

Sweet; Pungent; Calm; Toxic

meridians english

Large Intestine; Lung

use part

Ripe seed

symmap herb id

tcmid id

5699

tcmsp id

herb id str

HERB000432

function text

To induce subsidence of swelling and remove toxic substances, to cause purgation.

indication

Swelling toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess, throat impediment, scrofula, dry stool.

toxicity

Toxic

therapeutic en class

External Medicinal (Draw Out Toxin, Resolve Putridity)

therapeutic cn class

拔毒化腐生肌药

tcm id id

168

alias name

萆麻子; 蓖麻仁; 大麻子; 红大麻子

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📋 Clinical Trials

1 · subject of clinical study

NCT01732744 A Castor Bean Solution for Cleaning Dentures

→ Prostheses-related Infections

How relationships are computed

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