Longstamen Onion Bulb

This drug mainly contains volatile oil, whose principal components are dimethyl disulfide and dimethyl trisulfide, etc. It also contains various steroidal saponins such as macrostemonoside A, as well as prostaglandins, organic acids, alliin and alliose, etc.

This drug promotes fibrinolysis, lowers blood lipids and serum lipid peroxide (LPO), inhibits platelet aggregation and release, and inhibits the proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells. The water decoction of Xie Bai inhibits Shigella dysenteriae, Staphylococcus aureus and Pneumococcus. Intragastric administration of the raw juice of Xie Bai markedly enhances the activity of serum superoxide dismutase, catalase and T lymphocytes in rats and inhibits the formation of serum lipid peroxide

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