ancient wisdom Β· Herb
Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal; Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike
Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal; Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike. Class: Fire Purging Drugs. Properties: Pungent; Bitter; Cold. Meridians: Liver; Gallbladder
πΏ Names
Pinyin Name
Xia Ku Cao
δΈζε (Chinese)
ε€ζ―θ
Latin Name
Spica Prunellae; Prunellae Spica
English Name
Fruit -Spike of Common Selfheal; Common Selfheal Fruit-Spike
Alias Names
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β― TCM Properties
Properties (ζ§ε³)
Pungent; Bitter; Cold
Meridians (ε½η»)
Liver; Gallbladder
Part Used
Spike
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Fire Purging Drugs
εζεη±» (CN)
ζΈ
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π©Ί Clinical Profile
Function (εθ½)
To quench fire of the liver and counteract inflammation of the eye, and to reduce modulation and induce subsidence of swelling.
Indication (δΈ»ζ²»)
Red eyes with gall, eyeball night pain, headache and dizziness, scrofula, goiter and tuberculosis, mammary welling abscess, thyroid enlargement, scrofula, hyperplasia of mammary glands, hypertension.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its decoction (100mg/kg) for intravenous injection is hypotensive ondogs.2. its dilute decoction increases contractive power of toad and rabbits hearts in vitro, while concentrate decoction decreases.3. anti-inflammatory and bacteriostatic.4. adding th
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PMID 32182802
Prunellae Spica Extract Suppresses Teratoma Formation of Pluripotent Stem Cells through p53-Mediated Apoptosis
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