Giant Typhonium Rhizome

Overview

Aliases

Yubaifu, Niunaibaifu, Hongnanxing

Nature and Flavor

Warm; Pungent. Toxic

What's Inside

Ingredients

Contains mucilage, calcium oxalate, sucrose, saponins, beta-sitosterol, beta-sitosterol-D-glucoside, and inositol. The tuber contains beta-sitosterol and its glucoside, sucrose, and possibly also saponins. It also contains choline, uracil, succinic acid, tyrosine, valine, palmitic acid, linoleic acid, oleic acid, triolein, and dipalmitin.

Therapeutic Effects

This herb has analgesic, sedative, anticonvulsant, antibacterial, and anti-tetanus-toxin effects, as well as anticancer action; it can relieve cough and expectorate phlegm, inhibit Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and also lower serum cholesterol.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.