ancient wisdom · Herb
Figwort Root
Figwort Root. Class: Heat Clearing Blood Cooling Drugs. Properties: Sweet; Bitter; Salty; Slightly Cold. Meridians: Lung; Stomach; Kidney
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Xuan Shen
中文名 (Chinese)
玄参
Latin Name
Radix Scrophulariae; Scrophulariae Radix
English Name
Figwort Root
Alias Names
重台正马玄台鹿肠鬼藏端咸逐马馥草黑参野脂麻元参山当归水萝卜
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Sweet; Bitter; Salty; Slightly Cold
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Stomach; Kidney
Part Used
Root
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Heat Clearing Blood Cooling Drugs
功效分类 (CN)
清热凉血药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To reduce heat from blood, to nourish yin, to quench fire, and to counteract toxicity.
Indication (主治)
Heat entering construction-blood, generalized fever, vexation and thirst, crimson tongue, macular eruption, steaming bone taxation cough, vacuity vexation and insomnia, fluid damage and constipation, dry eyes with clouded flowery vision, swelling pain in throat, scrofula with phlegm node, sore toxin of welling abscess and flat abscess.
Clinical Manifestations
1. its alcoholic extract and its component methoxycinnamic acid can lower the typhoid vaccine-induced fever in rabbits.2. its water or alcoholic infusion and decoction exert a mild hypotensive effect on anesthetized animals3. lowering the level of blood s
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📚 Sample References
PMID 35792447
Aqueous extract of Scrophularia ningpoensis improves insulin sensitivity through AMPK-mediated inhibition of the NLRP3 inflammasome
Phytomedicine · 2022