Qingmuhong is another name for Xiangmu, which refers to high-quality Xiangmu. However, due to the potential adverse reactions such as kidney damage caused by the medicinal use of Qingmuhong, it has been mostly replaced by Guangmuhong in modern times. Now let me take you to understand the components of Qingmuhong and its modern pharmacological research!
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Qingmuhong has the effects of relieving pain, detoxification, reducing swelling, and lowering liver blood pressure. It is mainly used for pain in the chest and abdomen, hernia pain, enteritis, diarrhea and abdominal pain, cough with phlegm and asthma, snake and insect bites, abscesses and boils, eczema, itching of the skin, and hypertension.
It contains volatile oil, with its main components being aristolochic acid, aristolochia ketone, Qingmuhong acid, magnolol, tetrahydropalmatine, and corydaline. It has the functions of analgesia, anti-inflammatory, muscle relaxation, antimicrobial, and blood pressure reduction.
1. The extract of Qingmuhong has an inhibitory effect on intestinal motility in rabbits with ileus and chronic intestinal atony.
2. Wild Asarum heterotropoides roots, cultivated Asarum heterotropoides roots, and Asarum root all have analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, with the analgesic effect in the order of strongest to weakest.
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3. The water extract of Qingmuhong can inhibit herpes simplex virus type I (HSV-I). The total alkaloids of Qingmuhong have varying degrees of inhibitory effects on various pathogenic bacteria and bacilli in vitro. Its volatile oil has a killing effect on Ascaris suum.
4. Qingmuhong has a certain antihypertensive effect.
5. Qingmuhong has a sedative effect on mice. The acidic portion and volatile oil of Qingmuhong ether solution have emetic effects.
