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Fleeceflower Root

Fleeceflower Root. Class: Tonifying And Replenishing Medicinal. Properties: Bitter; Sweet; Astringent; Slightly Warm. Meridians: Liver; Heart; Kidney

🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
He Shou Wu
中文名 (Chinese)
何首乌
Latin Name
Polygoni Multiflori Radix; Radix Polygoni Multiflori
English Name
Fleeceflower Root
Alias Names
首乌地精赤敛陈知白红内消马肝石疮帚山奴山哥山伯山翁山精夜交藤根黄花污根血娃娃小独根田猪头铁称陀赤首乌山首乌药首乌何相公
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Sweet; Astringent; Slightly Warm
Meridians (归经)
Liver; Heart; Kidney
Part Used
Tuberoid
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Tonifying And Replenishing Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
补虚药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To lower cholesterol, enrich yin and nourish blood, moisten intestines and free stool, interrupt malaria, dispel wind, resolve toxin.
Indication (主治)
Backache, neurasthenia, hyperlipemia, neurosis, insomnia, dizziness due to anemia, palpitation, limp aching lumbus and knees due to liver kidney yin vacuity, premature graying in beard and hair, tinnitus, emission, intestinal dry and constipation, enduring malaria, wind papule itching, sore and welling abscess, scrofula, hemorrhoids.
Clinical Manifestations
1. the prepared sample can promote lymphocyte transformation.2. reducing serum cholesterol, and relieving atherosclerosis.3. the crude sample is a purgative.
🔗 External References
TCMID
6281
TCM-ID
819
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Clinical Trials
0
Meta-Analyses
1
PubMed References
📋 Sample Trials
None linked yet.
📊 Sample Meta-Analyses
None linked yet.
📚 Sample References
PMID 35662717
Hepatotoxicity of the Major Anthraquinones Derived From Polygoni Multiflori Radix Based on Bile Acid Homeostasis
Front Pharmacol · 2022