Sandalwood herbal material

Sandalwood

Overview

Aliases

Zhan Tan, Bai Tan, Sandalwood, Zhen Tan

Nature and Flavor

Warm; Pungent

What's Inside

Ingredients

This drug mainly contains volatile oil, whose principal components are α-santalol and β-santalol, and it also contains santalene, santalenone, etc.

Therapeutic Effects

This drug has a negative inotropic effect on the isolated frog heart and antagonizes the arrhythmia caused by Sini Decoction and Acanthopanax poisoning. The α-santalol and β-santalol it contains have fairly strong antibacterial effects.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.