Fructus Momordicae

Overview

Aliases

Tiger lantern; white lantern; bitter lantern; red lantern, etc.

Nature and Flavor

Cool; slightly bitter

What's Inside

Ingredients

The roots contain clerodolone, clerodienol ketone, clerodone, clerosterol, sterols, and related constituents. The leaves contain the anthelmintic component clerodin.

Therapeutic Effects

Physalis grass can raise the pain threshold in rats in the electrically stimulated tail-vocalization test and inhibit acetic acid–induced writhing in mice. It also has analgesic effects on inflammatory hyperalgesia and neurogenic hyperalgesia, and can markedly inhibit the discharge response of parafascicular thalamic neurons to noxious stimuli.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.