This product is the root of Skullcap Root (Scutellaria baicalensis Geprgi), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Lamiaceae family. Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan and Shaanxi. Excavated in spring and autumn. Steam or boil water to moisten slices. Use raw, roasted in wine or stir-frying to scorch.

Baical Skullcap Root (herbal decoction pieces)

[Property]

bitter, cold. Act on lung, stomach, gallbladder and large intestinal channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and drying dampness, clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, removing heat and calming fetus. This product is divided into Ku Qin, which is a long-growing perennial root, good at clearing lung fire; Tiao Qin, a young root that is good at clearing fire in the large intestine, and purging dampness-heat in lower energizer.

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1. It is used for dampness, warm disease, summerheat, dampness, dampness-heat stuffiness, and jaundice for diarrhea. This product is bitter and cold, clearing heat and drying dampness. It can clear the dampness-heat of the lungs, stomach, gallbladder and large intestine meridian, and is especially good for upper energizer dampness-heat in diseases. Used to treat dampness, warm disease, summerheat dampness, dampness-heat stagnation, chest gastric stuffiness, nausea, vomiting, hiding fever, yellow and greasy tongue coating, often combined with Talc, White Kouen , Ricepaperplant Pith are equivalent, such as Skullcap and Talc Decoction; if the dampness-heat resistance, stuffiness and fullness vomiting are often used with Coptis Rhizome, Dried Ginger, Pineilia and other combinations of medicinals, pungent dispersing and bitter descending, such as Pineilia Heart-Draining Decoction For large intestine dampness-heat and diarrhea dysentery, it can be used together with Coptis Rhizome and Pueraria Root, such as Pueraria, Skullcap and Coptis Decoction ; used to treat dampness-heat jaundice, it can be used together with Virgate Wormwood and Gardenia.
2. For lung heat cough, Rebing for polydipsia. This product is good at clearing the excess heat of lung fire and upper energizer. If the lung heat is blocked, the lungs are not cleared and the phlegm is thick, it will be effective when used alone, such as Qingjin Pills; it can also be combined with White Mulberry Root-Bark, Anemarrhena, Ophiopogon Tuber can be used to enhance the effect of clearing the lung and stopping coughing, such as Lung-Clearing Decoction. In addition, this product can also be used to treat external-contraction febrile disease, high fever caused by upper energizer, polydipsia, red face, dry lips, constipation, yellow fur and rapid pulse. It is often used with Mentha , Gardenia, Rhubarb Rhizoma and the like are used to purge fire and relieve constipation, such as Diaphragm-Cooling Powder. This product also enters the Shaoyang gallbladder meridian and can be used together with Bupleurum to treat evil in Shaoyang, alternating chills and fever, and has the effect of harmonizing lesser yang, such as Minor Bupleurum Decoction .
3. It is used for painful sores and sore throat. This product has a strong ability to remove fire toxin, relieve sores, swelling and pain caused by fire toxin, and sore throat. It is often used with Lonicera and Forsythia , Great Burdock Achene, Isatis Root and the like.
4. It is used for blood heat and vomiting. This product cools blood and stops bleeding, and can treat hemorrhagic syndrome caused by excessive fire toxin and excessive blood pressure, such as hematemesis. Often combination of medicinals Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, lalang grass rhizome, Sanqi etc. can be used.
5. Used for fetal heat and uneasiness: This product has the effect of removing heat and calming fetus, and is used to treat the symptoms of fetal heat and threatened abortion. Often combined with White Atractylodes Rhizome, Chinese Angelica and other medicinals, such as Angelica Powder.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "It controls all kinds of heat, jaundice, intestinal diarrhea, diarrhea, water removal, blood obstruction, malignant sores and fire gan (scleritis)."
2. Zhenzhunang: "Cools the heart, cures lung dampness stroke heat, purges lung fire,... calming fetus."
3. Bencao Zheng: "Dry person clears upper energizer fire, dispersing phlegm can benefit qi, relieve asthma and cough, relieve loss of blood, reduce alternating chills and fever, dampness-heat, headache, relieve pestilence, clear throat, treat lung atrophy, acute mastitis back gangrene, especially remove heat on the surface of the muscle, so It can cure macula and papule, sore and ulcer, red eyes. It can cool lower energizer heat, and can remove red dysentery, heat accumulated bladder, astringent pain, large intestine closure, bloody stool, fistula disease and blood."

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[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g. It is mostly used raw to clear away heat, stir-frying to calm fetus, and stir-frying to scorch to stop bleeding. Clear upper energizer and stir-fry with more wine.

[Precaution]

This product is bitter and cold and hurts the stomach. People with deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach should not use it.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains Skullcap Root aglycone, Skullcap Root glycoside, Han Skullcap Root, Han Skullcap Root glycoside, Skullcap Root neopeptide, benzoic acid, β-sitosterol, etc.

1. Skullcap Root decoction has a broad antibacterial spectrum in vitro, against diseases caused by cold bacilli, dysentery bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, whooping cough bacilli, staphylococci, streptococci, pneumococci, brain membranes Streptococcus pneumoniae, etc. all have inhibitory effects.
2. It also has inhibitory effects on influenza viruses, Leptospira and a variety of pathogenic fungi.
3. In addition, it has the functions of antipyretic, antihypertensive, diuretic, sedative, choleretic, hepatoprotective, reducing capillary permeability, and inhibiting intestinal peristalsis.
4. Skullcap Root glycosides and Skullcap Root glycosides have alleviating effects on allergic contraction of isolated trachea in guinea pigs and allergic panting in whole animals, and have synergistic effects with Ephedra base.
5. Large constipation knot, often combined with medicinals such as Hemp Seed, Trichosanthis Fruit Kernel, etc.
6. In addition, this product is combined with Chrysanthemum Flower to make Juming Antihypertensive Tablets, which are effective in treating hypertension. Cassia Seed decoction, syrup, and tablets are effective in treating hyperlipidemia.