Wednesday 30 October 2013

Chinese Herbs – Yin Chai Hu (Radix Stellariae Dichotomiae)

Yin Chai Hu is also known as Starwort Root. The sweet, bitter and cool herb has been used in TCM to treat fever, parasite, thirst, weight loss, dry and wilted hair, etc., as it clears Empty-Heat and Heat, etc., bt enhancing the functions of liver and stomach channels.

Ingredients
1. Fumaric acid
2.  6,8-di- C- galactopyranos-ylapigenin
3. 6- C- galactopyranosyl- isoscutellerein
4. Gypsogenin
5. Etc.

Health Beenfits
1. Nitric oxide production effect
In the study of the 80% aqueous acetone extract and the ethyl acetate-soluble portion from the dried fruit of Alpinia oxyphylla MIQUEL were found to show inhibitory effects on nitric oxide production in lipopolysaccharide-activated macrophages and antigen-induced degranulation in RBL-2H3 cells(1), according to the study of Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Misasagi(1).
2. Antiallergic activities
In the study of the antiallergic activities new beta-carboline-type alkaloidal glycoside, glucodichotomine B, four new neolignan glycosides, dichotomosides A, B, C, and D, and a new phenylpropanoid glycoside, dichotomoside E, isolated from a Chinese natural medicine, the roots of Stellaria dichotoma L. var. lanceolata, found that among them, dichotomoside D inhibited the release of beta-hexosaminidase (IC(50)=64 microM) as well as tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-4 (IC(50)=16, 34 microM) in RBL-2H3 cells(2).
3. Etc.

Side Effects
1. Do not use the herb in case of cold or influenza as a result of blood deficiency
2. Do not use the herb in newborn, children or if you are pregnant or breast feeding without first consulting with the related field specialist.
3. Etc.

Sources
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12398545
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15467234

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