Common Curculigo Rhizome

Overview

Aliases

Immortal Mao Root, Immortal Mao Ginseng, Earth Palm Root, Single Mao Root, Cold Rice Herb

Nature and Flavor

Hot; Pungent. Toxic

What's Inside

Ingredients

The rhizome contains curculigoside, picrophenol glucoside, curculigine A, tannins, resin, fat, and starch; in addition, it contains mucilage composed of mannose, glucose, and glucuronic acid, and also contains alkaloids.

Therapeutic Effects

The alcohol infusion of this product has a marked anti-hypoxic and anti-high-temperature effect in mice; it can markedly prolong the sleeping time of mice under sodium pentobarbital and markedly delay the latent period of picrotoxin-induced convulsions in mice; and it markedly inhibits croton oil-induced inflammatory swelling of the mouse auricle.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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