Glabrous Greenbrier Rhizome

Overview

Aliases

Red tufuling; hard-rice head; cold-rice ball

Nature and Flavor

Neutral; sweet, bland

What's Inside

Ingredients

It contains abundant saponins, tannins, resins, astilbin, and other constituents.

Therapeutic Effects

Smilax glabra contains abundant saponins, tannins, resins, and other constituents. It has an antipyretic effect on fever caused by various factors, can increase urinary chloride excretion, and lower blood uric acid levels. It inhibits Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococci, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, dysentery bacilli, and others. The astilbin it contains has diuretic, analgesic, antitumor, and anti-gossypol-toxicity effects.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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