Adsuki Bean
赤小豆
Water-Draining and Dampness-Leaching Herbs
Dried Daylily
Overview
Aliases
Xuancaohua, Chuancaohua, Luconghua, Xuan'e
Nature and Flavor
Cool, sweet
What's Inside
Ingredients
The root of the daylily contains rhein, chrysophanol, obtusifolin and obtusifolin methyl ether; it also contains hemerocallin, a yellow powder which gives orange-red crystals when recrystallized from dimethylformamide, its toxicity and efficacy then being greatly reduced. It contains γ-hydroxyglutamic acid, succinic acid, β-sitosterol, asparagine, colchicine and trehalase, etc.
Therapeutic Effects
Oral administration of flower extract or concentrated extract to mice significantly reduces spontaneous activity, suggesting a marked sedative effect of Jinzhenhua.
Precautions
No precautions information available
NOTE: THE INFORMATION PROVIDE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.
