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🌿 Herb

Pharbitis Seed

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🌿 All Herb data fields for Pharbitis Seed
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Qian Niu Zi
中文名 (Chinese)
牵牛子
Latin Name
Pharbitidis Semen; Semen Pharbitidis
English Name
Pharbitis Seed
Alias Names
草金铃; 金铃; 黑牵牛; 白牵牛; 黑丑; 白丑; 丑牛子; 二丑
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Cold; Toxic
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Kidney; Large Intestine
Part Used
Seed
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Drastic Purgatives
功效分类 (CN)
通水药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To cause drastic purgation for clearing away retained fluid, and to kill worms.
Indication (主治)
Edema distention fullness, inhibited urine and stool, phlegm-rheum and accumulation-gathering, qi counterflow with cough and asthma, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, ascariasis, taeniasis.
Toxicity
Extremely toxic
Clinical Manifestations
1. one of its components, pharbitin, is purgative.2. large dosage may induc hyperemia of kidney and cause hematuria.3. killing ascaris suis in vitro.
🔗 External References
SymMap
TCMID
4848
TCMSP
318
TCM-ID
1662
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (32 fields)
name
Pharbitis Seed
chinese name
牵牛子
pinyin name
Qian Niu Zi
latin name
Pharbitidis Semen; Semen Pharbitidis
english name
Pharbitis Seed
properties english
Bitter; Cold; Toxic
meridians english
Lung; Kidney; Large Intestine
use part
Seed
symmap herb id
318
tcmid id
4848
tcmsp id
318
herb id str
HERB004469
function text
To cause drastic purgation for clearing away retained fluid, and to kill worms.
indication
Edema distention fullness, inhibited urine and stool, phlegm-rheum and accumulation-gathering, qi counterflow with cough and asthma, abdominal pain due to worm accumulation, ascariasis, taeniasis.
toxicity
Extremely toxic
clinical manifestations
1. one of its components, pharbitin, is purgative.2. large dosage may induc hyperemia of kidney and cause hematuria.3. killing ascaris suis in vitro.
therapeutic en class
Drastic Purgatives
therapeutic cn class
通水药
tcm id id
1662
alias name
草金铃; 金铃; 黑牵牛; 白牵牛; 黑丑; 白丑; 丑牛子; 二丑
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