Hematite
赭石
Liver-Calming and Wind-Extinguishing Herbs
Puncturevine Calthrop Fruit
Overview
Aliases
Hard Caltrop, Caltrop Bone Seed, Prickly Caltrop
Nature and Flavor
Slightly Warm; Pungent, Bitter
What's Inside
Ingredients
Contains steroidal saponins, whose sapogenins are diosgenin, ruscogenin, hecogenin, gitogenin, etc.; also contains tribuloside, kaempferol-3-rutinoside, astragalin, and harmane alkaloids, etc.
Therapeutic Effects
The aqueous infusion and ethanol extract of this product have hypotensive and diuretic effects on anesthetized animals; the alkaloid and aqueous portions both inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.
Precautions
No precautions information available
NOTE: THE INFORMATION PROVIDE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.
