Why is Deer Herb a banned drug?

Many people don’t know much about Deer Fairy Grass, which is also called Shang Shang Lian and Tong Tian Candle. It has certain medicinal value. Its main therapeutic function is to nourish yin and kidney, and it has the effect of clearing heat and stopping bleeding. It has a good therapeutic effect on people’s waist and knee pain, and it also has a good therapeutic effect on bleeding caused by hemorrhoids. It has many ways of use. It can be taken orally as a decoction, or it can be applied externally.

Pharmacological Action

After mice were inoculated with solid liver cancer H22, they were gavaged with chloroform extract of Herba Lysimachiae 500 mg/(kg·d) the next day for 7 to 10 consecutive days, which had a significant anti-liver cancer effect. Mice were gavaged with the extract at doses of 0.5 g/kg, 1 g/kg and 2 g/kg, and no signs of poisoning or death were observed. When chloroform extract of Herba Luxiancao was administered orally at a dose of 500 mg/kg to dogs, no significant changes were observed in their blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration.

Function and indications

Nourishes the kidney and yin; clears away heat and stops bleeding. Mainly used for low back pain due to kidney deficiency; consumptive bleeding; hemorrhoidal bleeding

For internal use: decoction, 9-15g. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application; or grind it into powder and apply it.

Used for impotence, neurological dysfunction, chronic hepatitis, stomach pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, and menorrhagia. It is used to treat low back pain due to kidney deficiency, bleeding due to consumptive disease, and hemorrhoidal bleeding. Generally it is taken orally: decoction, 9-15g. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application; or grind it into powder and apply it.

Plant morphology: Herbaceous, 10-20cm tall. The whole plant is bright red to dark red, sometimes turning purple-red; the rhizome is branched, nearly spherical, 1-3cm long, 1-2.5cm in diameter, and the surface is densely covered with small rough spots and pale yellowish-white star-shaped lenticels. The pedicel is 5-10cm high; the bracts are elliptic-oblong, obtuse at the apex, alternate, 8-14 in number, 2-2.5cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, and the base almost completely covers the pedicel. Flowers are dioecious (inflorescence); male inflorescence is cylindrical, 3-18cm long, gradually pointed at the apex, male flowers are nearly radially symmetrical, perianth lobes are usually 5, nearly round, 2-3mm long, pointed or slightly obtuse at the apex; the polygamous stamens are nearly disc-shaped, with an umbilical protrusion in the middle, 5 anthers, 10 locules, sessile or nearly sessile; female inflorescence is ovate to oblong-elliptic, gradually pointed to the apex, 2-6cm long; ovary is ovate, with slender style and short ovary stalk, aggregated near the base of the appendages; the appendages are clavate or obconical, truncated at the apex or slightly raised in the middle of the apex, suddenly narrowed below the middle to be needle-shaped, about 1mm long. Flowering period is from September to November.