Chinese herbal medicine Shan Dou Gen has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling, and relieving sore throat. It is commonly used in the clinical treatment of sore throat and tonsillitis. Let's take a closer look at it with the following introduction!
[Medicinal Effects of Shan Dou Gen]
Shan Dou Gen has the effects of purging fire, detoxifying, reducing swelling, relieving pain, and killing parasites. It can be used for various diseases such as sore throat, swollen gums, hot cough, irritability and thirst, jaundice, and oral ulcers. The most common use in folk medicine is to boil Shan Dou Gen in water for the treatment of sore throat.
Shan Dou Gen contains a large amount of matrine and some oxidized matrine, as well as sophoridine. These substances are natural anti-inflammatory ingredients that not only improve the permeability of capillaries, eliminate fungi and viruses in the body, and reduce inflammation and fever, but also reduce the occurrence of various infectious diseases.
Shan Dou Gen can also enhance the body's immune system. The various natural alkaloids it contains can regulate people's immune system, enhance the activity of phagocytes, accelerate the regeneration of white blood cells in the body, increase the number of immunoglobulins in the body, and significantly improve immune function, which is greatly beneficial for enhancing the body's ability to resist diseases.
[Pharmacological Effects of Shan Dou Gen]
1. Extracts of Shan Dou Gen, matrine, and oxidized matrine have the effect of delaying the death of mice transplanted with Sarcoma 180. They also have a significant effect of delaying the death of rats with solid and ascitic Yoshida's sarcoma and ascitic liver cancer. On average, 60% of the rats did not die and were cured, and the presence of anti-tumor antibodies was found in the serum of cured rats.
2. Shan Dou Gen has an inhibitory effect on leukemia cells in the blue assay in test tubes (2g raw medicine/ml).
3. It has an excitatory effect on the reticuloendothelial system. Under the microscope, the phagocytic cells that phagocytose carbon are higher than those in the control group.
4. It has an anti-ulcer effect. It inhibits gastric acid secretion and has a significant repairing effect on ulcer tissue in rats with experimental ulcers (pylorus ligation ulcer, stress ulcer, acetic acid ulcer) when administered orally.
5. Antibacterial test: It has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Malassezia furfur, and Candida albicans.
