Root Of Sessile Stemona

Overview

Aliases

Baibu, Baibugen, Baitiaogen, Feibaibu, Keyao, Chuanchang, Yaoshijiao

Nature and Flavor

Slightly Warm; Sweet, Bitter

What's Inside

Ingredients

The root tubers contain various alkaloids. Manshengbaibu: the roots contain stemonine, stemonidine, isostemonidine, protostemonine, stemoninoline, and huabaibu alkaloid, among others. Zhilibaibu: the roots contain stemonine, protostemonine, stemonidine, isostemonidine, tuberostemonine, hodorine, and erect-baibu alkaloid. Duiyebaibu: the roots contain stemonine, tuberostemonine, isotuberostemonine, stienine, tuberostemoninine, and oxotuberostemonine.

Therapeutic Effects

1. Antibacterial effect: in vitro tests, Baibu (species unidentified) decoction and Baibu alcohol extract inhibit various pathogenic bacteria such as Pneumococcus, beta-hemolytic streptococcus, meningococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, and Bacillus dysenteriae. 2. Insecticidal effect: the water and ethanol extracts of Manshengbaibu and other Baibu species (species unidentified) kill mosquito and fly larvae, head lice, body lice, and bedbugs.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.