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Medicine Termilia Fruit; Medicine Terminalia Fruit

Medicine Termilia Fruit; Medicine Terminalia Fruit. Class: Astringent Medicinal. Properties: Bitter; Sour; Astringent; Calm. Meridians: Lung; Large Intestine

🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
He Zi
中文名 (Chinese)
诃子
Latin Name
Fructus Chebulae; Chebulae Fructus
English Name
Medicine Termilia Fruit; Medicine Terminalia Fruit
Alias Names
诃黎勒诃黎诃梨随风子
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Sour; Astringent; Calm
Meridians (归经)
Lung; Large Intestine
Part Used
Fruit
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Astringent Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
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🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To check diarrhea and chronic cough, and to soothe the sore throat.
Indication (主治)
Chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hematochezia, prolapse of rectum, cough and asthma due to lung vacuity, incessant cough, aphonia due to throat pain.
Clinical Manifestations
1. exerting as an astringent for mucosal ulcer in case of enteritis. 2. chebulin, one of its components, causes relaxation of smooth muscles similar to papaverine.
🔗 External References
SymMap
160
TCMID
7932
TCMSP
160
TCM-ID
826
0
Clinical Trials
0
Meta-Analyses
1
PubMed References
📋 Sample Trials
None linked yet.
📊 Sample Meta-Analyses
None linked yet.
📚 Sample References
PMID 35830757
Terminalia chebula Retz. extract ameliorates the symptoms of atopic dermatitis by regulating anti-inflammatory factors in vivo and suppressing STAT1/3 and NF-ĸB signaling in vitro
Phytomedicine · 2022