Thursday, June 14, 2012

Chinese Herbs In Western View - Niu Bang Zi (Fructus Arctii Lappae) health Benefits and Side Effects

Niu Bang Zi is likewise known as great burdock fruit generation. The acrid bitter and cold herb has been used in TCM in the same proportion that antibiotic, antipyretic, anti tumor agent and to sink blood sugar and treat  influenza, protuberance and pain of the throat, acute or chronic inflammation of the faux, tonsillitis, bronchitis, breast tumor, etc., for the reon that it disperses and drains Wind-Heat, expels toxins, promotes the outburst of exanthema, resolves edema, moves Qi, etc., dint of enhancing the functions of lung and stand channels.

Ingredients
1. Phenylpropanoids
2. Terthienyl and gaiacol
3. Eremophilene
4. Fukinone
5. Petasitolone
6. -eudesmol
7. -amyrin
8. -amyrin
9. Lupeol
10. Taraxasterol
11. -sitosterol
12. --daucosterol
13. Taraxasterol
14. Etc.

Health Benefits
1. The antitussive sprightliness 
 In the study to investigate polysaccacharide predominance on experimentally induced cough, showed that that the tested polysaccharides exhibited statistically significant cough-suppressing mode of action, which was noticeably higher than that of the non-sleeping draught drug used in clinical practice to negotiate coughing. The most expressive antitussive activity was observed with the polysaccharide from fen mallow, containing the highest proportion of the uronic tart constituent. Negative influence of the assayed compounds on expectoration was negligible at the time that compared to that of codeine(1).

2. Gastroprotective effects
In the study to evaluate the result and the possible mechanisms involved in the gastroprotective movables of a chloroform extract (CE) of the roots from A. lappa and its fractionsshow that the CE protects animals from gastric lesions by reducing gastric acid secretion by way of inhibition of gastric H+, K+ -ATPase(2).

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