Astragalus and Scutellaria are only one word apart, but often people mistake them for the same herb, but in fact they are not, so what is the difference between Astragalus and Scutellaria?
The difference in medicinal properties
Astragalus belongs to the herb of nourishing qi, slightly warm in nature, sweet in taste, belongs to the spleen and lung meridians, with the efficacy of benefiting the guard and fixing the surface to stop sweating, diuretic, removing sores and producing muscle.
Scutellaria baicalensis is a herb for clearing heat and defeating fire, bitter and cold in nature, entering the heart, lung, gall bladder and spleen and large intestine meridians, with the effect of removing fire and detoxifying toxins, clearing heat and drying dampness, stopping bleeding and calming the fetus.
Difference in composition
Astragalus mainly contains glycosides, polysaccharides, flavonoids, amino acids, trace elements, coumarins, trace folic acid, betaine, monomelanin, dimethyl dihydroisoflavone, etc.
Scutellaria baicalensis mainly contains baicalin, baicalin, baicalin, baicalin, beta-sitosterol, baicalein, benzoic acid, etc. The stem and leaves contain baicalein glycosides.
Difference of efficacy
Efficacy of Astragalus
1. Tonifying the spleen and benefiting the qi, generating blood and regulating blood, good at treating spleen qi deficiency, spleen deficiency caused by deficient middle qi, and is useful in treating spleen qi weakness caused by mental fatigue, general weakness, and loose food and stools. It is suitable for patients with blood deficiency or chronic bleeding.
2. Astragalus enters the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and is effective in tonifying lung qi. It can treat spontaneous sweating, recurrent colds, shortness of breath, lazy speech, coughing and wheezing, chest tightness, etc.
3. Astragalus also has the effect of promoting skin detoxification and wound healing, plus has a strong effect of tonifying qi, which can play a role in invigorating the blood and opening the channels, and is beneficial to numbness of limbs and hemiplegia caused by rheumatism and post-stroke.
Efficacy of Scutellaria baicalensis
Scutellaria baicalensis clears heat and dampness, diuresis and detoxification, acting in the upper jiao and large intestine, good at clearing the fire of the lung and large intestine, has a strong hemostatic effect; and good at treating warm disease heat into the air and blood, cough and asthma, lung fever, dampness, summer dampness, damp fever, damp fever and gonorrhea and hemorrhoids blood in the stool; can also calm the fetus, treat fetal fever, fetal movement.
The difference between the application groups
Huang Qi
Astragalus is suitable for people with spleen qi weakness, table deficiency and spontaneous sweating, withered or pale complexion, tiredness and weakness, and loose stools; patients with prolapse, prolapsed uterus and prolapsed viscera due to the lowering of the middle qi; patients with nerve paralysis, hemiplegia and chronic rheumatoid arthritis.
Scutellaria baicalensis
Scutellaria baicalensis is suitable for people suffering from damp-heat syndrome, external fever resulting in high fever and thirst, constipation with red urine and yellow pulse, carbuncles and sores, blood-heat and bleeding, and pregnant women with fetal disturbance.
