Amur Corktree Bark herbal material

Amur Corktree Bark

Overview

Aliases

Cork tree; cork bark; phellodendron bark

Nature and Flavor

Cold; bitter

What's Inside

Ingredients

It contains alkaloids such as berberine, jatrorrhizine, magnoflorine, phellodendrine, N-methylhordenine, palmatine, and menisperine; it also contains obakunone, obaculactone, dictamnolactone, obakunonic acid, lumicaeruleic acid, 7-dehydrostigmasterol, β-sitosterol, and campesterol. The root bark contains berberine, jatrorrhizine, phellodendrine, and N-methylhordenine.

Therapeutic Effects

1. Anti-pathogenic microorganism effect: The aqueous decoction or alcohol extract of Phellodendron bark shows varying degrees of inhibition in vitro against Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus albus, Staphylococcus citreus, hemolytic streptococci, pneumococci, Bacillus anthracis, diphtheria bacilli, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, typhoid and paratyphoid bacilli, meningococci, and Vibrio cholerae. 2. Antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects: It has a certain fever-reducing effect.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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