This product is the whole plant of common andrographis herb (Andrographis paniculata (Burm.f.) Nees), an annual herb of the creeping rostellularia herb family. It is cultivated in South China, East China, and Southwest China. The quality is better when harvested in early autumn when it has just bloomed. Cut into sections, dried and used raw or fresh.

[Property]

bitter, cold. act on lung, stomach, large intestine and small intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, drying dampness and reducing swelling.

[Indications]

1. Used for external contraction of wind-heat, initial onset of warm disease, lung heat, cough, lung abscess, vomiting of pus, and sore throat. This product is bitter and cold, reduces diarrhea, clears heat and removes toxin, and is good at clearing lung fire. Therefore, it can be used for all diseases caused by lung fire. It is used to treat external contraction, wind-heat or warm disease at the beginning, fever headache, often used together with Lonicera, Forsythia, Mentha. To treat lung heat cough panting, often used in combination with Skullcap Root, White Mulberry Root-Bark, Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark; to treat lung heat cough panting. abscess Coughing up purulent sputum, often used together with Heartleaf Houttuynia Herb, Platycodon Root, waxgourd seed and other medicines; to treat sore throat , often used together with Scrophularia Root, Great Burdock Achene, Isatis Root and other medicines.
2. Used for dampness-heat diarrhea, heat stranguria, astringent pain, eczema and cutaneous pruitus. This product is bitter, dry and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin drying dampness, so it can be used for all dampness-heat diseases. To treat gastrointestinal dampness-heat, foot pain, diarrhea, and diarrhea with pus and blood, it can be used alone or in combination with Purslane Herb and Coptis Rhizome to treat bladder dampness-heat. , stranguria, astringent pain, usually combined with Plantain Seed, lalang grass rhizome, Phelloendron Bark and other medicines to treat eczema cutaneous pruitus, You can use this product as powder and mix it with glycerin.
3. Used for carbuncles, sores, snake and insect bites. This product clears heat and removes toxin, dries dampness and reduces swelling, so it can be used to treat dampness-heat fire toxin symptoms. To treat carbuncles, sores, snake and insect bites, it can be used alone or with Lonicera, wild chrysanthemum flower, chinese manyleaf paris rhizome When decoction is taken, and the fresh product is mashed and applied externally, it has the effect of removing toxin and dispersing swelling.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Documentation]

1. "Lingnan Medicinal Records": "It can detoxify snake venom and relieve cough due to internal damage."
2. "Quanzhou materia medica": "clearing heat and removing toxin, reducing inflammation and swelling, and treating throat inflammation. , dysentery, high fever."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 6~15g. It is mostly made into pills, powders and tablets. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

It should not be used by those with deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach.

[Modern Pharmacology]

The leaves of this product contain common andrographis herb lactone, deoxycommon andrographis herb lactone, new common andrographis herb lactone, etc. The roots also contain a variety of flavonoids. common andrographis herb decoction has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus, Diplococcus pneumonia, hemolytic streptococci, dysentery bacilli, and disease caused by cold bacilli; it can enhance the phagocytosis of bacteria by human white blood cells Ability; has antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, antivenom and muscarinic effects; and has the effect of terminating pregnancy, etc.