Slender Dutchmanspipe Root

Overview

Aliases

Birthwort Root, Dou Ling Gen, Tu Qing Mu Xiang, Du Xing Gen, Yun Nan Gen, Tu Mu Xiang, Qing Teng Xiang, She Shen Gen, Tie Bian Dan, Sha Yao, Ye Mu Xiang Gen, Shui Mu Xiang Gen, Bai Qing Mu Xiang

Nature and Flavor

Cold; Pungent, Bitter. Slightly Toxic

What's Inside

Ingredients

This drug mainly contains volatile oil, whose principal component is aristolone. It also contains aristolochic acid, debilic acid, magnoflorine acid, magnoflorine, and tuqingmuxiang A and C, etc.

Therapeutic Effects

The decoction of this drug lowers hypertension caused by various factors. The magnoflorine it contains markedly lowers renal hypertension. The total alkaloids of Qing Mu Xiang have antibacterial activity and enhance the phagocytic activity of peritoneal macrophages. In addition, this drug has anticancer, sedative, catalytic and anthelmintic (ascariasis-expelling) effects

Precautions

No precautions information available

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