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🌿 Herb

Human Placenta

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Clinical Trials
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Meta-Analyses
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PubMed References
Top Conditions Studied with Human Placenta
📋 Sample Trials
None linked yet.
📊 Sample Meta-Analyses
CRD42022371379
Effectiveness of Human Placentophagia on Health Benefits among postpartum women
Placentophagia is the ingestion of the placenta and afterbirth components releas
📚 Sample References
None linked yet.
🌿 All Herb data fields for Human Placenta
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Zi He Che
中文名 (Chinese)
紫河车
Latin Name
Placenta Hominis
English Name
Human Placenta
Alias Names
胞衣; 人胞; 混沌皮; 仙人衣; 混沌衣; 混元丹; 佛袈裟; 胎衣
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Warm; Sweet; Salty
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Liver; Heart; Kidney
Part Used
Human placenta
Therapeutic Class (EN)
For tonifying weakness
功效分类 (CN)
补虚
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To supplement qi, nourish blood, boost essence.
Indication (主治)
Vacuity detriment, marked emaciation, steaming bone taxation fever, cough and asthma, hemoptysis, night sweating, emission, impotence, qi -blood depletion, infertility, scant breast milk.
Clinical Manifestations
1. anti-inflammatory. 2. exerting gonadotropic effect. 3. promoting the growth of young animals. 4. relieving the leukopenia induced by radiation or chemicles.
🔗 External References
TCMID
2525
TCM-ID
2710
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (29 fields)
name
Human Placenta
chinese name
紫河车
pinyin name
Zi He Che
latin name
Placenta Hominis
english name
Human Placenta
properties english
Warm; Sweet; Salty
meridians english
Lung; Liver; Heart; Kidney
use part
Human placenta
tcmid id
2525
herb id str
HERB007171
function text
To supplement qi, nourish blood, boost essence.
indication
Vacuity detriment, marked emaciation, steaming bone taxation fever, cough and asthma, hemoptysis, night sweating, emission, impotence, qi -blood depletion, infertility, scant breast milk.
clinical manifestations
1. anti-inflammatory. 2. exerting gonadotropic effect. 3. promoting the growth of young animals. 4. relieving the leukopenia induced by radiation or chemicles.
therapeutic en class
For tonifying weakness
therapeutic cn class
补虚
tcm id id
2710
alias name
胞衣; 人胞; 混沌皮; 仙人衣; 混沌衣; 混元丹; 佛袈裟; 胎衣
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