Coastal Glehnia Root

Overview

Aliases

Laiyang Ginseng, Sea Glehnia, Silver Glehnia, Liaoning Glehnia

Nature and Flavor

Cool; Sweet, Bitter, Bland

What's Inside

Ingredients

Contains various coumarins such as imperatorin, psoralen, bergapten, and ostruthin-7-O-beta-gentiobioside, and also contains alkaloids, starch, and a trace of volatile oil.

Therapeutic Effects

The water infusion of this product, at low concentration, can strengthen the contraction of the isolated toad heart; at higher concentrations it produces an inhibitory effect, even to the point of ventricular arrest, and it has a certain blood-pressure-raising effect. The alcohol extract has antipyretic and analgesic effects. Glehnia polysaccharide can inhibit delayed-type hypersensitivity.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.