Indian Dendranthema Flower

It contains volatile oil, which includes chrysantheol, chrysantheone, α-pinene, camphor, borneol, camphene, and others. It also contains chrysanthemum lactone, chrysanthemin A, acaciin, linarin, chrysosplenetin glycosides, luteolin, and other constituents.

1. Hypotensive effect: In acute animal experiments, intraperitoneal injection or oral administration of wild chrysanthemum extract to unanesthetized rats produced a marked hypotensive effect. 2. Antiviral and antibacterial effects: In vitro, wild chrysanthemum decoction at 1:80 can delay cytopathic changes in cells infected with ECHO virus (primary monolayer epithelial cells of human embryonic kidney). At 1:320, the decoction inhibits Staphylococcus aureus, diphtheria bacilli, and dysentery bacilli in vitro.

Use with caution in patients with deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach.