Chinese Herbs - Tu Jing Pi (Cortex Pseudolaricis)

Tu Jing Pi is also known as Golden Larch Bark. The acrid , warm and toxic herb has been used in TCM as contraceptive, anti fungal agent and to treat liver tumor, parasite etc., as it expels worms and parasites, relieves itching, etc. by enhancing the functions of lung and spleen channels.

Ingredients
1. Pseudolaric acid）A、B、C、D、E
2. Demethylpseudolaric acid B
3. B  pseudolaric acid A-β-D-glucoside
4. Pseudolarifuroic
5. Betulinic acid
6.  β-sitosterol
7.  β-sitosterol-β-D-glucoside
8. Etc.

Health benefits
1. Anti fungal activity
Crude extracts from a number of medicinal herbs have been shown to exhibit antifungal activities in vitro, including cortex moutan, cortex pseudolaricis, rhizoma alpiniae officinarum, rhizoma coptidis, clove and cinnamon, anemarrhena cortex phellodendri, ramulus cinnamomi, and Chinese gall adue to the presence of berberine, palmatine, allincin, pseudolaric acid A and B, magnolol, honokiol, and galangin compouds in the herbs(1).
2. Scavenging activity
In the study to evaluate the protective effects of Chinese herbs against ONOO(-)-induced biomolecule damage, showed that the potency of scavenging activity was in the following order: Apis cerana Fabricius (Propolis) > Rosmarinus officinalis L (Rosemary) > Pseudolarix amabilis (Nelson) Rehd. (Pine Bark PE) > Echinacea Moenck. (Echinacea); the remaining twenty-eight herbs performed unsatisfactorily for their scavenging activity(2).
3. Etc.

Side Effects
1. Do not use the herb in newborn, children or if you are pregnant or breast feeding without first consulting with the related field specialist.
2. Etc.

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Sources
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21441482
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%20Pseudolarix%20amabilis%20%28Nelson%29%20Rehd.