What are the common detoxifying Chinese medicinal materials?

Everyone will encounter the trouble of illness in life, and it is something that no one can avoid. In the treatment of some diseases, generally both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine can be used. my country's traditional Chinese medicine culture enjoys a high reputation in the world, and the resources of Chinese medicinal materials are relatively abundant. So, what are the common Chinese medicinal herbs for detoxification? Regarding Chinese medicinal materials with detoxification effects, let’s take a look at the following introduction.

1. Gardenia

Gardenia is the fruit of the Rubiaceae plant Gardenia, which contains a variety of bitter glycosides, mannitol, ursolic acid, etc. Gardenia has a choleretic effect, or increases bile secretion; at the same time, Gardenia has cooling, sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant effects; it also has antimicrobial effects, and has inhibitory effects on a variety of pathogenic bacteria and a variety of skin pathogenic fungi.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and has the functions of purging fire and relieving restlessness, clearing heat and removing dampness, cooling blood and detoxifying. It is suitable for symptoms such as febrile disease, restlessness, insomnia, jaundice, red eyes, epistaxis, hot and toxic sores, etc.

2. Cassia seed

Cassia seed is the seed of the leguminous plant Cassia leaf stew or Cassia, which contains anthracene esters and anthraquinone glycosides, cassia bark and vitamin A. Pharmacological experiments have shown that Cassia seed can lower blood pressure and serum cholesterol; it has the effects of resisting multiple pathogens and softening stools.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is slightly cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, and has the function of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, promoting diuresis and relieving constipation. It is suitable for red and painful eyes, photophobia and excessive tears caused by liver heat or wind-heat in the liver meridian. In addition, it is also effective in treating hypertension, hepatitis, ascites due to cirrhosis and habitual constipation.

3. Lycium bark

The bark of Lycium barbarum is the root bark of Lycium barbarum, a plant of the Solanaceae family. It contains cinnamic acid, various phenolic substances, betaine and linoleic acid. The bark of Lycium bark has a significant antipyretic effect, and its decoction can lower blood sugar, lower serum cholesterol and resist fatty liver. The infusion of Lycium bark has a significant effect of lowering blood pressure in animals.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet and light in taste, and has the functions of cooling blood, relieving steaming, and clearing away lung heat. It is suitable for consumptive hot flashes and night sweats, cough and asthma due to lung heat, vomiting blood, epistaxis, carbuncles and ulcers due to blood heat, as well as tuberculosis and hypertension.

4. Phragmites australis

Reed rhizome is the underground stem of the grass plant reed, which contains coixol, asparagine, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and producing body fluid, relieving restlessness, stopping vomiting and promoting diuresis. It is suitable for treating body fluid loss due to febrile disease, restlessness and thirst, vomiting due to stomach heat, choking, nausea, and the treatment of lung heat cough, lung abscess, etc.

What are the common Chinese medicinal herbs for detoxification? The Chinese medicinal materials introduced to you above all have certain detoxification effects and are also commonly used in clinical practice. When people are not feeling well, Chinese medicine treatments often work very well and the side effects of Chinese medicine are relatively small.