Tong Ren Tang Chaihu Shugan San

Many people know that Scutellaria baicalensis is a traditional Chinese medicine that can clear away heat and reduce fire, and regulate women's uterine problems and menstrual problems. When using this kind of medicine, we still need to fully understand its effects. Next, let’s take a detailed look at Chaihu Shugan San.

Composition of Chaihu Shugan Powder

Maybe you only know the scutellaria baicalensis in Chaihu Shugan San, but you are not sure about the other ingredients. Then let's first learn about the ingredients of Chaihu Shugan San.

Several herbs including Scutellaria baicalensis, Paeonia lactiflora, Licorice, and Poria cocos are combined together to make Chaihu Shugan Powder. Among them, Scutellaria baicalensis plays an important role. Scutellaria baicalensis is a traditional Chinese medicinal material, which belongs to the category of tonic medicine. The main function of Scutellaria baicalensis is to treat fever caused by colds, uterine shedding, irregular menstruation and other symptoms.

The effects of Scutellaria baicalensis in Chaihu Shugan San are reducing fever, resisting infection, enhancing the body's immune ability, and resisting liver damage. Scutellaria baicalensis can be made into Scutellaria baicalensis injection, Chaihu Shugan Powder, Chaihu Shugan Pills, etc.

Source of the prescription: Chaihu Shugan San, the prescription comes from "Jingyue Complete Works" by Zhang Jingyue, a famous Chinese medicine doctor in the Ming Dynasty.

Prescription composition: Scutellaria baicalensis, red peony root, aurantium, licorice, Cyperus rotundus, Notopterygium wilfordii, and Poria cocos.

Function: Soothe the liver and regulate qi, regulate qi and relieve pain.

Indications: Various symptoms of liver qi stagnation. Such as: pain in the ribs, chest tightness, shortness of breath and discomfort. Or there may be alternation of chills and fever, hiccups, groaning, and abdominal distension.

This prescription can be widely used for patients with chronic hepatitis, chronic gastritis, breast hyperplasia, breast pain before menstruation or during menstruation, costal neuritis and some anxiety disorders.

If the interaction is effective, it can also be used for chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, dysmenorrhea and other diseases. However, the necessary condition for its use is that the patient must be diagnosed by traditional Chinese medicine as having liver qi stagnation, with the main symptoms being distension and pain in the ribs or lower abdomen (both sides of the lower abdomen).

The effects and efficacy of Chaihu Shugan San

1. Reduce fever

Ingredients: volatile oil (eugenol, caproic acid, r-undecanoic acid lactone and p-methoxybenzone), saikosaponin (ginsenoside A).

Efficacy: It has a significant antipyretic effect on fever caused by typhoid, paratyphoid vaccine, Escherichia coli fluid, fermented milk, yeast, etc.; and can lower the normal body temperature of animals. The product, Scutellaria baicalensis decoction, was administered intragastrically to rabbits at a dose of 2g/kg, which had a significant antipyretic effect on fever caused by vaccines and warm acupuncture.

2. Anti-infection

Ingredients: Ginsenosides. Efficacy: It has an inhibitory effect on knee joint swelling and connective tissue hyperplasia caused by various inflammatory agents. firewood

Intraperitoneal injection of 300 mg/kg of picroside can inhibit the swelling of the paws of rats caused by carrageenan, 5-5-hydroxytryptamine, and nitrosamines, inhibit the cotton wool granuloma in rats, and at the same time can cause adrenaline hypertrophy and thymus shrinkage; inhibit the release of nitrosamines in inflammatory tissues and the movement of white blood cells.

3. Promote immune function

Ingredients: Sugar content of Scutellaria baicalensis. Efficacy: Enhanced swallowing function, enhanced destructive cell function, increased virus infection specific antibody titer, increased reticulocyte transnuclear rate, and improved skin delayed allergic symptoms.