[Variety Source]
This product is the root of the cruciferous plant Isatis indigotica (Isatis indigotica L.); or the creeping rostellularia herb plant Isatis (Baphicacanthus cusia (Nees) Brem.) Rhizome and roots. Excavate in autumn, remove sediment and dry in the sun.
[Property]
bitter, cold. act on heart and stomach channels.
[Efficacy]
clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx.
[Indications]
Mainly used for warm febrile disease fever, headache, sore throat, or warm toxin disease, mumps, swollen sores, erysipelas, swollen-head infection epidemic and other symptoms of excessive heat toxin. This product has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxin cooling blood similar to Dyers Woad leaf, and it is also known for removing toxin disinhibiting benifiting the pharynx. It is also used for external contraction, wind-heat fever headache or warm disease. Those who have the above symptoms and signs at the beginning are often combined with Lonicera, Forsythia, Schizonepeta is used equally; to treat swollen-head infection, redness and swelling of the head and face, and throat discomfort, etc., often combined with medicinals Scrophularia Root, Forsythia, Great Burdock Achene, etc., such as Universal Relief Decoction for Eliminating Toxin.
[Documentation]
- Rihuazi Bencao: "Cure heat toxin."
- "Classic grass medicinal property": "Relieve all poisonous and malignant sores, disperse poison and remove fire, make juice or take it Or paint."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take 10~15g.
[Precaution]
It should not be used in cases of deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach.
[Modern Pharmacology]
Indigowoad root contains indigo, indirubin, β-sitosterol, Windmill Palm acid, uridine, hypoxanthine, uracil, indigo ketone and carotene, etc.; Indigowoad root contains indigo, β-sitosterol, anthraquinones , triterpenoid components, etc. Isatis Root has inhibitory effects on a variety of Gram-positive bacteria, Gram-negative bacteria and viruses; it can enhance immune function and has a certain inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation induced by ADP.