Chinese herb Taraxacum is not only beautiful in appearance, but also has powerful medicinal effects. Taraxacum is used for reducing swelling, relieving pain, and has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. It is also a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and detoxification, and it works better when combined with other detoxifying herbs. Let's take a look at the four most important effects of Taraxacum with the editor!
[The Four Most Important Effects of Taraxacum]
1. Taraxacum has the effect of reducing swelling and detoxification
Taraxacum can clear heat, detoxify, and reduce swelling. It has certain effects in relieving high fever and restlessness.
It has a good effect on influenza, upper respiratory tract infections, tonsillitis, and parotitis.
2. Taraxacum has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects
Modern pharmacology has shown that Taraxacum can treat bacterial infections such as enteritis, nephritis, hepatitis, acute appendicitis, conjunctivitis, dysentery, and other suppurative infections.
3. Taraxacum has the effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain
Taraxacum has the ability to reduce swelling and relieve pain caused by various infections. It can treat diseases such as swelling, abscesses, mastitis, and carbuncles.
4. Taraxacum has the effect of treating snake bites
Fresh Taraxacum juice can be ingested, or a little realgar can be added and applied externally.
[Precautions for Using Taraxacum]
Avoid using it for people with weak and cold constitutions.
Dosage of Taraxacum
Internal use: Decoction, 0.5-1 liang (2-3 liang for fresh); juice or powder.
External use: Apply as a poultice or make into a paste.
[Pharmacological Effects of Taraxacum]
Taraxacum was used to culture human embryonic kidney primary monolayer epithelial cells, and its water extract (1:80) had inhibitory effects on herpes simplex virus and delayed cell damage caused by orphan virus.
The bitter Taraxacum injection, made from the whole plant, mainly contains alkaloids.
It has in vitro antibacterial effects, inhibiting streptococcus, pneumococcus, corynebacterium, dysentery bacillus, E. coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (in vitro test);
It also has effects on Staphylococcus aureus (golden and white) and Bacillus subtilis (agar plate punching method).
It was also used to culture human embryonic kidney primary monolayer epithelial cells, and the 1:10 bitter Taraxacum injection had no inhibitory effects on poliovirus strains Eko 18 and Coxsackie B1, and adenovirus type III;
It had no inhibitory effect on 4 units of influenza virus strain Meth68-1 (1:160), but it had an inhibitory effect on the Sendai strain of parainfluenza virus.
It has very low toxicity. When injected into the peritoneal cavity of mice at a dosage about 120 times the human dosage (8 ml/kg), no deaths were observed;
When the dosage was increased to 10 ml/kg, 3 out of 10 mice died. The bitter Taraxacum injection caused a temporary decrease in blood pressure when intravenously injected into anesthetized cats and dogs, which recovered within half a minute; it also had inhibitory effects on the heart when perfused into a frog's heart.
