Giant Typhonium Rhizome
白附子
Phlegm-Transforming, Cough-Suppressing and Asthma-Relieving Herbs
Pinellia Tuber
Overview
Aliases
Shuibanxia, Jiangbanxia, Fabanxia, Qingbanxia, Qingyanbanxia, Zhulibanxia, Xianbanxia, Zhubanxia, Yeyutou
Nature and Flavor
Warm; Pungent. Toxic
What's Inside
Ingredients
The tuber contains volatile oil, a small amount of fat (of which about 34% of the fatty acids are solid acids and 66% are liquid acids), starch, nicotine, mucilage, amino acids such as aspartic acid, glutamic acid, arginine and beta-aminobutyric acid, beta-sitosterol, choline, beta-sitosterol-beta-D-glucoside, and 3,4-dihydroxybenzaldehyde, as well as alkaloids whose pharmacological actions are similar to those of coniine and nicotine, and skin-irritating substances similar to protoanemonin.
Therapeutic Effects
1. Antitussive effect: experiments have shown that intravenous injection of the decoction has an antitussive effect on cough induced by electrical stimulation of the superior laryngeal nerve in mildly anesthetized cats. 2. Antiemetic effect: intragastric administration of the decoction can inhibit vomiting induced by subcutaneous injection of apomorphine in dogs. 3. Anticancer effect: dilute alcoholic or aqueous extracts of Banxia markedly inhibit experimentally induced animal tumors - mouse hepatoma HCA, mouse sarcoma S180, and cervical cancer HeLa cells.
Precautions
No precautions information available
NOTE: THE INFORMATION PROVIDE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.
