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Acanthopanax Root Bark
Traditional Uses
Removes wind and dampness, supplements liver and kidneys, strengthens tendons and bones, invigorates blood circulation, eliminates blood stagnancy, for Fistula obstruction, spasms of tendons and bones, numbness and pain, in the loins and legs, pudendal pruritis in women, impotence due to scrotum dampness
Scientific Research
(1) Antiphlogistic purpose: A. sessiliflorus inhibits arthritis in rats.
(2) Analgesic, antipyretic purposes: Intraperitoneal injection of A. sessiliflorus extract in mice shows an analgesic purpose, but it possesses no antipyretic purpose when tested on rabbits.
(3) Purpose: on the cardiovascular system: A. sessiliflorus dramatically inhibits extirpated toad heart.
(4) Adaptogenic purpose: It enables the body to fight fatigue and regulates the body during disease stages (adaptogenic herbs increase the body's nonspecific resistance against diseases and stress).
(5) Other purposes: A. sessiliflorus lowers the blood pressure and stimulates uterine and intestinal-tract functions in rabbits.
Albizzia Flower
Traditional Uses
Relieves depression, invigorates blood circulation,controls pain, sets muscle and bone, for restlessness, anxiety, insomnia, lung muscle trauma, hone fracture, carbuncle, ulcer.
Scientific Research
(1) It has tonifying, stimulating, analgesic, anthelmintic, and diuretic purposes.
(2) Oxytocic purposes: Animal studies have indicated that it has oxytocic action
Alisma Rhizome
Traditional Uses
Promotes diuresis, dispels dampness, cleanses heat, for Damp-heat, dysuria, edema, distention, vomiting, diarrhea, retention of phlegm, beriberi, urinary disturbances, hematuria, stagnant water in the stomach, thirst, dizziness
Scientific Research
(1) Diuretic purpose:.Intravenous injection of the aqueous extract into the rabbitís ear will increase its potassium salt secretion, thus increasing urination.
(2) Purpose on fat storage in the liver: When rats were fed with 5 percent alisma powder, storage of lipid in the liver was inhibited, probably by the choline, lecithin, and aristol-monoacetate content in alisma. It also reduced the blood cholesterol level.
(3) Hypotensive and hypoglycemic purposes: It lowers the blood pressure, and blood glucose level in rabbits.
(4) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
American Burdock Root
Common Names:
Bardana, burr seed, clotbur, cocklebur, grass burdock, hardock, hareburr, hurr-burr, turkey burrseed.
Medicinal Parts:
Root, seed, leaves.
Properties and Uses:
Aperient, cholagogue, diaphoretic, diuretic. The decoction or infusion of burdock root is aperient, but not for all individuals; for some it may even be constipative. Both the tea and the tincture can be used for stomach ailments. Burdock is also said to neutralize and eliminate poisons in the system. The leaves are not generally used but do contain a substance that stimulates the secretion of bile. If they are to be used for liver problems, use fresh leaves only. A decoction of leaves also makes a good wash for sores and may be helpful for acne. The fresh, bruised leaves are sometimes used as a remedy for poison oak or poison ivy, The seeds contain an oil that is used medicinally, but only with medical supervision.
American Caraway Seed
Medicinal Part
Seed.
Caraway is a biennial or perennial plant cultivated and found in the northern and northwestern U.S., Europe, and Asia. The hollow, furrowed, angular, branched stem grows in the second year from a white, carrot-shaped root. The leaves are bi- or tripinnate and deeply incised, the upper ones on a sheath-like petiole. The small white or yellow flowers appear in May and June, forming a compound umbel with rays of unequal length. The fruit is dark brown, oblong, flattened, and two-seeded.
Properties and Uses
Antispasmodic, appetizer, carminative, em-menagogue, expectorant, galactagogue, stomachic. Like a number of other common kitchen spices, caraway has a beneficial purpose on the appetite and digestion. It also promotes the onset of menstruation, relieves uterine cramps, promotes the secretion of milk, and is mildly expectorant. Use caraway for flatulent colic, particularly in infants, and also as a stomach settler after takin nauseous medicines.
American Chives Leaves
Medicinal Part:
Leaves.
Chive grows to a height of 8 to 12 inches from a small, elongated, bulbous root. The leaves are hollow, cylindrical, closed at the top and dilated to surround the stem at the bottom. The otherwise naked stem bears a terminal globose cluster of reddish-blue or purple flowers in June and July. The fruit is a three-sided black seed.
Properties and Uses:
Appetizer, digestive. Chives help to stimulate appetite and to promote the digestive processes. The plant, also contains iron and arsenic (in harmless amounts) and may therefore be helpful for anemia.
American Cranesbill Root
Common Names
Alum root, cranesbill, crowfoot, geranium, spotted geranium, wild cranesbill, wild geranium.
Medicinal Part
Rootstock.
Description
Cranesbill is growing from 1 to 2 feet high, as well as long-petioled basal leaves. Both basal and stem leaves are deeply 5- to 7-parted, with coarsely toothed, pointed lobes. The rose-purple flowers grow in pairs on axillary peduncles from April to July.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, styptic. Spotted cranebill root is a strong astringent for both internal and external use. Internally, it is helpful against diarrhea and hemorrhage. It also makes a good mouthwash and gargle for sore throat, gum problems, and throat and mouth sores. One tribe of American Indians used a decoction of wild grape and spotted cranebill root as a mouthwash for children who had thrush. The powdered root is an purposeive blood coagulant and can be used to stop external bleeding.
American Loquat Seed
Traditional Uses
Cleanses lungs, harmonizes stomach, causes chíi to descend, resolves phlegm, for Lung-heat, retention of p ileum and water, stomach-heat, retching
Scientific Research
(1) Antitussive and expectorant purposes: Amygadalin, after being hydrolyzed, yields hydrocyanic acid which calms the sensory nerves of the bronchi, thus decreasing coughing. It stimulates the respiration center of the central nervous system.
(2) Antiviral purpose. It inhibits viruses causing influenza.
American Witch Hazel
Common Names
Hazel nut, pistachio, snapping hazel, spotted alder, striped alder, tobacco wood, winterbloom.
Medicinal Parts
Bark, leaves.
Description
Witch hazel is a deciduous shrub or small tree which grows in damp woods from Nova
Scotia to Georgia and Nebraska; it is also cultivated elsewhere for its autumn-blooming flowers. Growing to a height of up to 15 feet, the stems and branches are covered with scaly gray to brown bark. The alternate, elliptic to obovate leaves are coarsely toothed and often are finely hairy on the veins underneath. The yellow flowers have 4 strap-shaped petals and grow in nodding, axillary clusters, blooming in autumn when the leaves are falling. The fruit is a woody capsule which ejects two shining black seeds when they ripen during the summer or autumn following the flowers.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, hemostatic, sedative, tonic. Witch hazel leaves and bark have served mostly to make astringent preparations, which have been taken internally for diarrhea and used externally as a rinse or gargle for mouth and throat irritations and as a vaginal douche for vaginitis. For skin irritations, bruises, insect bites and stings, minor burns, and poison ivy, an ointment made from the fluid extract or a poultice can be applied. A poultice made from the inner bark is said to be purposeive for hemorrhoids and for eye inflammation. The inner bark also has sedative and hemostatic properties.
American Yellow Dock
Common Names
Curled dock, garden patience, narrow dock, sour dock, rumex.
Medicinal Part
The root.
Description
Yellow dock is a perennial plant found as a trouble-some weed in fields and waste places in Europe, the U.S. and southern Canada. Its spindle-shaped, yellow taproot sends up a smooth, rather slender stem, 1 to 3 feet high. Lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in shape, the pointed light green leaves have predominantly wavy margins. The lower leaves are larger and longer-petioled than the upper. Blooming from June to July, the numerous pale green, drooping flowers are loosely whorled in panicled racemes. The fruit is a pointed, three-angled and heart-shaped nut.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, cholagogue, tonic. Known as a medicinal plant since ancient times, yellow dock has been used as a laxative or mild astringent tonic. In the nineteenth century, it was considered a "blood purifier" and was prescribed for eruptive diseases, such as scrofula, and skin problems. The ointment is valuable for itching, sores, swellings, and scabby eruptions. American Indians applied crushed yellow dock leaves to boils and the pulverized roots to cuts.
Amomum Seed
Traditional Uses
Moves and regulates chíi, smoothes muscles of body, opens stomach, distributes food, prevents spontaneous abortion, for Pain due to swelling in the stomach, stagnation of chíi, stagnancy of undigested food dull stomach, lack of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, fetal restlessness
Scientific Research
(1) Aromatic stomachic purpose: The essential oil contains aromatics which possess stomachic actions.
(2) Purpose; on the intestines: The 0.254.75% extract of Amomum villosum or A. xanthioides stimulates extirpated intestines, while the 1.00-1.25% saturated solution, inhibits intestinal functioning.
Angelica Root
Traditional Uses
Supplements and moves blood, moistens intestines, regulates menses, for Headache due to deficiency of blood, chest and abdominal pain, constipation, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia, functional bleeding
Scientific Research
(1) Uterus-regulating purpose: Tang-kuei has both stimulating and inhibiting actions on uterine muscles. Experiments indicate that its non-volatile water-soluble compounds stimulate uterine muscle, while its volatile oil inhibits uterine muscle, producing a relaxing action. Therefore, to cause the uterus to contract the herb should be decocted for a long period of time to get rid of the volatile oil. If the uterus is to be relaxed then the herb should be put into the decoction later (that is, the other herbs should be decocted first for some time before tang-kuei is added and it should be boiled over a low flame to prevent loss of the volatile oil). Animal studies show that the uterus upon being pressed will exhibit irregular contractions, but after administration of tang.-kuei the uterus will contract regularly. This means that tang-kuei can regulate the function of the uterus and that is most probably the mechanism of tang-kueiís ability to treat menorrhalgia. Mice given feed containing 5% tang-kuei have higher DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) content in their uteri, have higher glucose metabolism, and thus have a higher multiplication rate of uterine tissue.
(2) Purpose on metabolism and secretion: Mice fed with 5% tang-kuei feed have a higher metabolic rate, and show an increase in oxygen consumption by the liver. Though the vitamin B12 content is low in tang kuei, the vitamins may nevertheless be responsible for its hematinic action. The extract protects the liver and prevents a decrease in liver sugar in mice with acute hepatitis induced by carbon tetrachloride. In experiments with mice, the herb acts against vitamin E deficiency, which may be related to its fetus-stabilizing purpose.
(3) Sedative purpose: The volatile oil inhibits brain activity, thus having the purpose of sedation.
(4) Diuretic purpose: Tang-kuei promotes urine excretion.
Angelica Sinensis Root
Traditional Uses
Supplements and moves blood, moistens intestines, regulates menses, for Headache due to deficiency of blood, chest and abdominal pain, constipation, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia, functional bleeding
Scientific Research
(1) Uterus-regulating purpose: Tang-kuei has both stimulating and inhibiting actions on uterine muscles. Experiments indicate that its non-volatile water-soluble compounds stimulate uterine muscle, while its volatile oil inhibits uterine muscle, producing a relaxing action. Therefore, to cause the uterus to contract the herb should be decocted for a long period of time to get rid of the volatile oil. If the uterus is to be relaxed then the herb should be put into the decoction later (that is, the other herbs should be decocted first for some time before tang-kuei is added and it should be boiled over a low flame to prevent loss of the volatile oil). Animal studies show that the uterus upon being pressed will exhibit irregular contractions, but after ad-mirristration of tang-kuei the uterus will contract regularly. This means that tang-kuei can regulate the function of the uterus and that is most probably the mechanism of tang-kueiís ability to treat menorrhalgia. Mice given feed containing 5% tang-kuei have higher DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) content in their uteri, have higher glucose metabolism, and thus have a higher multiplication rate of uterine tissue.
(2) Purpose on metabolism and secretion: Mice fed with 5% tang-kuei feed have a higher metabolic rate, and show an increase in oxygen consumption by the liver. Though the vitamin B12, content is low in tang kuei, the vitamins may nevertheless be responsible for its hematinic action. The extract protects the liver and prevents a decrease in liver sugar in mice with acute hepatitis induced by carbon tetrachloride. In experiments with mice, the herb acts against vitamin E deficiency, which may be related to its fetus-stabilizing purpose.
(3) Sedative purpose: The volatile oil inhibits brain activity, thus having the purpose of sedation.
(4) Diuretic purpose: Tang-kuei promotes urine excretion.
(5) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits Bacillus dysenteriae, E. coli, Streptococcus naemolyticus and other bacteria.Biota Seed
Arctium Fruit
Traditional Uses
Disperses wind-heat, cleanses and benefits the throat, ventilates the lungs, promotes eruptions, removes swelling, dissolves toxins, for Cough due to wind-heat, sore throat, unerupted erythema, swelling ulcer, carbuncle
Scientific Research
(1) Diuretic purpose: Arctiin produces diuresis in experimental studies using frogs, mice, and rabbits.
(2) Antibacterial purpose: The extract inhibits the proliferation of Diplococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in vitro.
(3) Antifungal purpose: It inhibits the growth of dermatophytes in vitro.
Artemisia
Traditional Uses
Removes heat, dispels dampness, for Jaundice; feverishness, dysuria
Scientific Research
(1) Antipyretic purpose: The aqueous extract possesses a strong antipyretic purpose but its decoctionís action is weaker.
(2)Purpose on the gallbladder: It stimulates bile secretion, the components responsible for this action being esculetin-6, 7-dimethyl ether and caffeic acid; capillarisin also is quite potent.
(3) Hypotensive purpose: The aqueous or ethanol extract lowers the blood pressure of anethetized animals.
(4) Purpose on fats: It lowers the serum cholesterol and p-lipoprotein levels, thus preventing the accumulation of fat deposits in the blood vessels.
(5) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits Staphylococcus flavus, Bacillus typhi, and others.
(6) Antifungal purpose: The dilute solution of capillin inhibits the growth of red ringworm.
(7) Antiviral purpose: The ethanol extract strongly inhibits epidemic influenza virus.
(8) Anthelmintic purpose: The essential oil paralyzes spineless round worms.
(9) Other purposes: The essential oil inhibits spontaneous motor activities and reflexes in mice.
Asarum Root
Traditional Uses
Dispels cold and wind, warms the lungs to resolve accumulated fluids, for Sinusitis, toothache, rheumatoid arthritis due to wind and dampness, retention of phlegm and fluid, cough with dyspnea, general coughing
Scientific Research
(1) Antipyretic purpose: The essential oil lowers the body temperature of rabbits differing from fever induced by typhoid vaccine.
(2) Analgesic purpose: It shows a local anesthetic purpose and analgesic purposes.
(3) Tranquilizing purpose: Its essential oil has a tranquilizing purpose as shown by experiments on animals. At first it induces extreme stimulation, then gradually paralysis of the voluntary and respiratory movements and reflexes leading to death.
(4) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro the alcohol extract shows a marked inhibition of the growth of gram-positive bacteria Shigella dysenteriae and Salmonella (Eberthella) typhosa.
(5) Antitussive purpose: The constituents higenamine and kakuol have been shown to have antitussive purposes.
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new vita® Herbal Ingredients
Achieve Better Health in Weeks
Acanthopanax Root Bark
Traditional Uses
Removes wind and dampness, supplements liver and kidneys, strengthens tendons and bones, invigorates blood circulation, eliminates blood stagnancy, for Fistula obstruction, spasms of tendons and bones, numbness and pain, in the loins and legs, pudendal pruritis in women, impotence due to scrotum dampness
Scientific Research
(1) Antiphlogistic purpose: A. sessiliflorus inhibits arthritis in rats.
(2) Analgesic, antipyretic purposes: Intraperitoneal injection of A. sessiliflorus extract in mice shows an analgesic purpose, but it possesses no antipyretic purpose when tested on rabbits.
(3) Purpose: on the cardiovascular system: A. sessiliflorus dramatically inhibits extirpated toad heart.
(4) Adaptogenic purpose: It enables the body to fight fatigue and regulates the body during disease stages (adaptogenic herbs increase the body's nonspecific resistance against diseases and stress).
(5) Other purposes: A. sessiliflorus lowers the blood pressure and stimulates uterine and intestinal-tract functions in rabbits.
Albizzia Flower
Traditional Uses
Relieves depression, invigorates blood circulation,controls pain, sets muscle and bone, for restlessness, anxiety, insomnia, lung muscle trauma, hone fracture, carbuncle, ulcer.
Scientific Research
(1) It has tonifying, stimulating, analgesic, anthelmintic, and diuretic purposes.
(2) Oxytocic purposes: Animal studies have indicated that it has oxytocic action
Alisma Rhizome
Traditional Uses
Promotes diuresis, dispels dampness, cleanses heat, for Damp-heat, dysuria, edema, distention, vomiting, diarrhea, retention of phlegm, beriberi, urinary disturbances, hematuria, stagnant water in the stomach, thirst, dizziness
Scientific Research
(1) Diuretic purpose:.Intravenous injection of the aqueous extract into the rabbitís ear will increase its potassium salt secretion, thus increasing urination.
(2) Purpose on fat storage in the liver: When rats were fed with 5 percent alisma powder, storage of lipid in the liver was inhibited, probably by the choline, lecithin, and aristol-monoacetate content in alisma. It also reduced the blood cholesterol level.
(3) Hypotensive and hypoglycemic purposes: It lowers the blood pressure, and blood glucose level in rabbits.
(4) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
American Burdock Root
Common Names:
Bardana, burr seed, clotbur, cocklebur, grass burdock, hardock, hareburr, hurr-burr, turkey burrseed.
Medicinal Parts:
Root, seed, leaves.
Properties and Uses:
Aperient, cholagogue, diaphoretic, diuretic. The decoction or infusion of burdock root is aperient, but not for all individuals; for some it may even be constipative. Both the tea and the tincture can be used for stomach ailments. Burdock is also said to neutralize and eliminate poisons in the system. The leaves are not generally used but do contain a substance that stimulates the secretion of bile. If they are to be used for liver problems, use fresh leaves only. A decoction of leaves also makes a good wash for sores and may be helpful for acne. The fresh, bruised leaves are sometimes used as a remedy for poison oak or poison ivy, The seeds contain an oil that is used medicinally, but only with medical supervision.
American Caraway Seed
Medicinal Part
Seed.
Caraway is a biennial or perennial plant cultivated and found in the northern and northwestern U.S., Europe, and Asia. The hollow, furrowed, angular, branched stem grows in the second year from a white, carrot-shaped root. The leaves are bi- or tripinnate and deeply incised, the upper ones on a sheath-like petiole. The small white or yellow flowers appear in May and June, forming a compound umbel with rays of unequal length. The fruit is dark brown, oblong, flattened, and two-seeded.
Properties and Uses
Antispasmodic, appetizer, carminative, em-menagogue, expectorant, galactagogue, stomachic. Like a number of other common kitchen spices, caraway has a beneficial purpose on the appetite and digestion. It also promotes the onset of menstruation, relieves uterine cramps, promotes the secretion of milk, and is mildly expectorant. Use caraway for flatulent colic, particularly in infants, and also as a stomach settler after takin nauseous medicines.
American Chives Leaves
Medicinal Part:
Leaves.
Chive grows to a height of 8 to 12 inches from a small, elongated, bulbous root. The leaves are hollow, cylindrical, closed at the top and dilated to surround the stem at the bottom. The otherwise naked stem bears a terminal globose cluster of reddish-blue or purple flowers in June and July. The fruit is a three-sided black seed.
Properties and Uses:
Appetizer, digestive. Chives help to stimulate appetite and to promote the digestive processes. The plant, also contains iron and arsenic (in harmless amounts) and may therefore be helpful for anemia.
American Cranesbill Root
Common Names
Alum root, cranesbill, crowfoot, geranium, spotted geranium, wild cranesbill, wild geranium.
Medicinal Part
Rootstock.
Description
Cranesbill is growing from 1 to 2 feet high, as well as long-petioled basal leaves. Both basal and stem leaves are deeply 5- to 7-parted, with coarsely toothed, pointed lobes. The rose-purple flowers grow in pairs on axillary peduncles from April to July.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, styptic. Spotted cranebill root is a strong astringent for both internal and external use. Internally, it is helpful against diarrhea and hemorrhage. It also makes a good mouthwash and gargle for sore throat, gum problems, and throat and mouth sores. One tribe of American Indians used a decoction of wild grape and spotted cranebill root as a mouthwash for children who had thrush. The powdered root is an purposeive blood coagulant and can be used to stop external bleeding.
American Loquat Seed
Traditional Uses
Cleanses lungs, harmonizes stomach, causes chíi to descend, resolves phlegm, for Lung-heat, retention of p ileum and water, stomach-heat, retching
Scientific Research
(1) Antitussive and expectorant purposes: Amygadalin, after being hydrolyzed, yields hydrocyanic acid which calms the sensory nerves of the bronchi, thus decreasing coughing. It stimulates the respiration center of the central nervous system.
(2) Antiviral purpose. It inhibits viruses causing influenza.
American Witch Hazel
Common Names
Hazel nut, pistachio, snapping hazel, spotted alder, striped alder, tobacco wood, winterbloom.
Medicinal Parts
Bark, leaves.
Description
Witch hazel is a deciduous shrub or small tree which grows in damp woods from Nova
Scotia to Georgia and Nebraska; it is also cultivated elsewhere for its autumn-blooming flowers. Growing to a height of up to 15 feet, the stems and branches are covered with scaly gray to brown bark. The alternate, elliptic to obovate leaves are coarsely toothed and often are finely hairy on the veins underneath. The yellow flowers have 4 strap-shaped petals and grow in nodding, axillary clusters, blooming in autumn when the leaves are falling. The fruit is a woody capsule which ejects two shining black seeds when they ripen during the summer or autumn following the flowers.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, hemostatic, sedative, tonic. Witch hazel leaves and bark have served mostly to make astringent preparations, which have been taken internally for diarrhea and used externally as a rinse or gargle for mouth and throat irritations and as a vaginal douche for vaginitis. For skin irritations, bruises, insect bites and stings, minor burns, and poison ivy, an ointment made from the fluid extract or a poultice can be applied. A poultice made from the inner bark is said to be purposeive for hemorrhoids and for eye inflammation. The inner bark also has sedative and hemostatic properties.
American Yellow Dock
Common Names
Curled dock, garden patience, narrow dock, sour dock, rumex.
Medicinal Part
The root.
Description
Yellow dock is a perennial plant found as a trouble-some weed in fields and waste places in Europe, the U.S. and southern Canada. Its spindle-shaped, yellow taproot sends up a smooth, rather slender stem, 1 to 3 feet high. Lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in shape, the pointed light green leaves have predominantly wavy margins. The lower leaves are larger and longer-petioled than the upper. Blooming from June to July, the numerous pale green, drooping flowers are loosely whorled in panicled racemes. The fruit is a pointed, three-angled and heart-shaped nut.
Properties and Uses
Astringent, cholagogue, tonic. Known as a medicinal plant since ancient times, yellow dock has been used as a laxative or mild astringent tonic. In the nineteenth century, it was considered a "blood purifier" and was prescribed for eruptive diseases, such as scrofula, and skin problems. The ointment is valuable for itching, sores, swellings, and scabby eruptions. American Indians applied crushed yellow dock leaves to boils and the pulverized roots to cuts.
Amomum Seed
Traditional Uses
Moves and regulates chíi, smoothes muscles of body, opens stomach, distributes food, prevents spontaneous abortion, for Pain due to swelling in the stomach, stagnation of chíi, stagnancy of undigested food dull stomach, lack of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, fetal restlessness
Scientific Research
(1) Aromatic stomachic purpose: The essential oil contains aromatics which possess stomachic actions.
(2) Purpose; on the intestines: The 0.254.75% extract of Amomum villosum or A. xanthioides stimulates extirpated intestines, while the 1.00-1.25% saturated solution, inhibits intestinal functioning.
Angelica Root
Traditional Uses
Supplements and moves blood, moistens intestines, regulates menses, for Headache due to deficiency of blood, chest and abdominal pain, constipation, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia, functional bleeding
Scientific Research
(1) Uterus-regulating purpose: Tang-kuei has both stimulating and inhibiting actions on uterine muscles. Experiments indicate that its non-volatile water-soluble compounds stimulate uterine muscle, while its volatile oil inhibits uterine muscle, producing a relaxing action. Therefore, to cause the uterus to contract the herb should be decocted for a long period of time to get rid of the volatile oil. If the uterus is to be relaxed then the herb should be put into the decoction later (that is, the other herbs should be decocted first for some time before tang-kuei is added and it should be boiled over a low flame to prevent loss of the volatile oil). Animal studies show that the uterus upon being pressed will exhibit irregular contractions, but after administration of tang.-kuei the uterus will contract regularly. This means that tang-kuei can regulate the function of the uterus and that is most probably the mechanism of tang-kueiís ability to treat menorrhalgia. Mice given feed containing 5% tang-kuei have higher DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) content in their uteri, have higher glucose metabolism, and thus have a higher multiplication rate of uterine tissue.
(2) Purpose on metabolism and secretion: Mice fed with 5% tang-kuei feed have a higher metabolic rate, and show an increase in oxygen consumption by the liver. Though the vitamin B12 content is low in tang kuei, the vitamins may nevertheless be responsible for its hematinic action. The extract protects the liver and prevents a decrease in liver sugar in mice with acute hepatitis induced by carbon tetrachloride. In experiments with mice, the herb acts against vitamin E deficiency, which may be related to its fetus-stabilizing purpose.
(3) Sedative purpose: The volatile oil inhibits brain activity, thus having the purpose of sedation.
(4) Diuretic purpose: Tang-kuei promotes urine excretion.
Angelica Sinensis RootTraditional Uses
Supplements and moves blood, moistens intestines, regulates menses, for Headache due to deficiency of blood, chest and abdominal pain, constipation, amenorrhea, menorrhalgia, functional bleeding
Scientific Research
(1) Uterus-regulating purpose: Tang-kuei has both stimulating and inhibiting actions on uterine muscles. Experiments indicate that its non-volatile water-soluble compounds stimulate uterine muscle, while its volatile oil inhibits uterine muscle, producing a relaxing action. Therefore, to cause the uterus to contract the herb should be decocted for a long period of time to get rid of the volatile oil. If the uterus is to be relaxed then the herb should be put into the decoction later (that is, the other herbs should be decocted first for some time before tang-kuei is added and it should be boiled over a low flame to prevent loss of the volatile oil). Animal studies show that the uterus upon being pressed will exhibit irregular contractions, but after ad-mirristration of tang-kuei the uterus will contract regularly. This means that tang-kuei can regulate the function of the uterus and that is most probably the mechanism of tang-kueiís ability to treat menorrhalgia. Mice given feed containing 5% tang-kuei have higher DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) content in their uteri, have higher glucose metabolism, and thus have a higher multiplication rate of uterine tissue.
(2) Purpose on metabolism and secretion: Mice fed with 5% tang-kuei feed have a higher metabolic rate, and show an increase in oxygen consumption by the liver. Though the vitamin B12, content is low in tang kuei, the vitamins may nevertheless be responsible for its hematinic action. The extract protects the liver and prevents a decrease in liver sugar in mice with acute hepatitis induced by carbon tetrachloride. In experiments with mice, the herb acts against vitamin E deficiency, which may be related to its fetus-stabilizing purpose.
(3) Sedative purpose: The volatile oil inhibits brain activity, thus having the purpose of sedation.
(4) Diuretic purpose: Tang-kuei promotes urine excretion.
(5) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits Bacillus dysenteriae, E. coli, Streptococcus naemolyticus and other bacteria.Biota Seed
Arctium Fruit
Traditional Uses
Disperses wind-heat, cleanses and benefits the throat, ventilates the lungs, promotes eruptions, removes swelling, dissolves toxins, for Cough due to wind-heat, sore throat, unerupted erythema, swelling ulcer, carbuncle
Scientific Research
(1) Diuretic purpose: Arctiin produces diuresis in experimental studies using frogs, mice, and rabbits.
(2) Antibacterial purpose: The extract inhibits the proliferation of Diplococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus in vitro.
(3) Antifungal purpose: It inhibits the growth of dermatophytes in vitro.
Artemisia
Traditional Uses
Removes heat, dispels dampness, for Jaundice; feverishness, dysuria
Scientific Research
(1) Antipyretic purpose: The aqueous extract possesses a strong antipyretic purpose but its decoctionís action is weaker.
(2)Purpose on the gallbladder: It stimulates bile secretion, the components responsible for this action being esculetin-6, 7-dimethyl ether and caffeic acid; capillarisin also is quite potent.
(3) Hypotensive purpose: The aqueous or ethanol extract lowers the blood pressure of anethetized animals.
(4) Purpose on fats: It lowers the serum cholesterol and p-lipoprotein levels, thus preventing the accumulation of fat deposits in the blood vessels.
(5) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro, it inhibits Staphylococcus flavus, Bacillus typhi, and others.
(6) Antifungal purpose: The dilute solution of capillin inhibits the growth of red ringworm.
(7) Antiviral purpose: The ethanol extract strongly inhibits epidemic influenza virus.
(8) Anthelmintic purpose: The essential oil paralyzes spineless round worms.
(9) Other purposes: The essential oil inhibits spontaneous motor activities and reflexes in mice.
Asarum Root
Traditional Uses
Dispels cold and wind, warms the lungs to resolve accumulated fluids, for Sinusitis, toothache, rheumatoid arthritis due to wind and dampness, retention of phlegm and fluid, cough with dyspnea, general coughing
Scientific Research
(1) Antipyretic purpose: The essential oil lowers the body temperature of rabbits differing from fever induced by typhoid vaccine.
(2) Analgesic purpose: It shows a local anesthetic purpose and analgesic purposes.
(3) Tranquilizing purpose: Its essential oil has a tranquilizing purpose as shown by experiments on animals. At first it induces extreme stimulation, then gradually paralysis of the voluntary and respiratory movements and reflexes leading to death.
(4) Antibacterial purpose: In vitro the alcohol extract shows a marked inhibition of the growth of gram-positive bacteria Shigella dysenteriae and Salmonella (Eberthella) typhosa.
(5) Antitussive purpose: The constituents higenamine and kakuol have been shown to have antitussive purposes.
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