What are the effects and functions of Asarum?

As a traditional Chinese medicine, asarum is still attracting much attention. Only when its specific effects and even indications are understood can people use it with confidence. Traditional Chinese medicine is still often used in life. After all, it has few side effects, good curative effect, and can also regulate and nourish the body, which can gradually improve human health. However, it must be used correctly. So what are the effects and functions of Asarum?

The efficacy of Asarum

Dispel wind, dispel cold, promote water circulation, and open up the orifices. Treat wind-cold headache, sinusitis, toothache, phlegm and cough, rheumatic pain. However, it is not suitable for people with qi deficiency, excessive sweating, blood deficiency, headache, yin deficiency, cough, etc. Asarum can both dispel wind-cold externally and eliminate yin-cold internally, and it also has good analgesic and antitussive effects. Although it has a good effect in dispelling cold, its diaphoretic effect is weak and it is generally not used as the main medicine in prescriptions for dispelling exterior pathogens.

Effects of Asarum

Antipyretic.

Its volatile oil has an antipyretic effect on artificial fever in rabbits when administered intragastricly, and can reduce the normal body temperature of the animals to below normal.

Analgesia.

Its volatile oil has analgesic effect on rabbits, and its analgesic intensity is equivalent to that of antispirin 0.5 mg/kg. Oral administration of the decoction also has an analgesic effect on mice.

Local anesthesia.

The water decoction of Asarum chinense can block the impulse conduction of the sciatic nerve of toads, and its anesthetic effect is close to that of 1% procaine. The volatile oil of Asarum has a surface anesthetic effect on the corneal reflex of rabbits. The volatile oil has an infiltration anesthetic effect, but the decoction is ineffective. 50% asarum tincture also has a local anesthetic effect on the human tongue mucosa.

Anti-inflammatory.

Asarum chinense has a certain inhibitory effect on formaldehyde-induced and egg white-induced joint swelling in rats. Asarum volatile oil can fight against ear swelling in mice and joint swelling in rats. Asarum volatile oil can inhibit granuloma in rats, and Asarum sinensis volatile oil can significantly inhibit serum zinc in rats.

Excited heart.

The volatile oil has a stimulating effect on isolated frog hearts at small doses. The alcohol extract of Asarum has a significant excitatory effect on the isolated rabbit heart and can increase the coronary flow of the isolated guinea pig heart. Asarum volatile oil has protective effects on acute myocardial ischemia and hypobaric hypoxia in mice.

It can significantly improve the dog's left ventricular pump function and myocardial contractility. Basically similar to norcipaline and isoproterenol.

Through the above introduction, everyone is very clear about the effects and functions of asarum. Correct use of medication is reflected in many aspects. On the one hand, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine for the right disease and not take it blindly. On the other hand, it is necessary to take the medicine on time and in the right amount. After all, all medicine is three-point poison, so overdose should not occur.