Japanese Thistle

This herb mainly contains volatile oil, the principal components of which are isolongifolene, cyperene, etc. It also contains flavonoids, triterpenes such as α-amyrin, sterols, and polysaccharides, etc.

The aqueous decoction administered by gavage significantly shortens the coagulation time in mice; the aqueous decoction or alcohol extract excites the uterus of rabbits, but inhibits the isolated rat uterus and the in situ cat uterus; it inhibits the isolated rabbit duodenum; it inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis (human type), Corynebacterium diphtheriae, group P streptococci, Shigella flexneri, and herpes simplex virus.

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