What are the effects and functions of pig scutellaria

Although Scutellaria baicalensis has a mild nature and flavor and does not have any obvious effects, it has a very powerful effect in clinically treating leucorrhea through the bladder and improving immunity. It also has a diuretic effect and can relieve the urinary problems and severe renal tubular absorption dysfunction that many people suffer from. It has a strong conditioning effect on toxic hepatitis and can also have an anti-radiation effect.

Poria cocos, a medicinal fungus of the genus Poria, Polyporaceae, Aphyllaceae.

The fruiting bodies are large or very large, fleshy, stalked, multi-branched, with a round white to light brown cap at the end, and the diameter of a cluster can reach 35cm. The cap is round, concave in the middle and nearly funnel-shaped, with rolled edges and covered with dark fine scales, 1-4 cm wide. The flesh of the mushroom is white, the pores are white, and turn straw yellow after drying. The pores are round or broken in irregular tooth shapes, extending from one another, with an average of 2 to 4 per millimeter. The spores are colorless, smooth, cylindrical, with a rounded end and a crooked tip at the other end, 7-10μm×3-4.2μm. Economic value: The fruiting body is edible when young and tender, and tastes very delicious. Its underground sclerotia are black and of various shapes. It is a famous Chinese medicine with diuretic and edema-treating effects. Contains glucan, which has been tested to have anti-cancer effects.

The efficacy and function of Poria cocos

Efficacy and function

Nature, flavor and efficacy : Poria is sweet, light and neutral in taste, and enters the kidney and bladder meridians. Promotes diuresis and eliminates dampness. It can treat urinary problems, edema, diarrhea, stranguria, leucorrhea, and has immune-enhancing effects.

Diuretic effect : Poria decoction, equivalent to 0.25-0.5g/kg of crude drug, injected intravenously or intramuscularly, has a relatively obvious diuretic effect on non-anesthetized dogs, and can promote the excretion of electrolytes such as sodium, chloride, and potassium, which may be due to the inhibition of renal tubular reabsorption function.

Protective effect on the liver of mice with toxic hepatitis: Carbon tetrachloride and D-galactosamine were intraperitoneally injected into mice to induce toxic hepatitis. Before and after the induction, 100-200 mg/kg of Polyporus polysaccharide was intraperitoneally injected into mice, with the drug administered once every 4, 8, and 12 hours. Both can significantly prevent the occurrence of liver diseases, reduce the activity of SGPT, and restore the activities of liver 5'-nucleotidase and acid phosphataminase 6-phosphogluconate phosphatase. Similar effects were also observed in vitro, indicating that it has a significant protective effect on the liver.

Anti-radiation effect : Poria polysaccharide has obvious effect in preventing and treating acute radiation sickness in mice, and the effective dose and time are relatively wide. Giving the drug intraperitoneally 2 and 48 hours before irradiation to mice that had received a lethal dose of whole-body irradiation (800 rad) could increase their survival rate by 30-70%. Giving the drug after irradiation, whether orally or intraperitoneally, has protective efficacy, and the preventive effect is higher than the therapeutic effect. Polyporus polysaccharide has no protective effect on the hematopoietic function of irradiated mice, but it does significantly improve the stress function of the adrenal cortex of irradiated mice. It is preliminarily believed that the anti-radiation effect of Poria polysaccharide may be through regulating the function of the pituitary-adrenal system, putting the body in a state of stress, thereby enhancing the ability to resist radiation damage.

Other effects : Intraperitoneal injection of Poria polysaccharide into mice for 48 hours can significantly enhance the incorporation of 3H-TdR in mouse thymocytes and accelerate the release of thymocytes. On the one hand, these phenomena no longer occur after adrenal removal, and on the other hand, polysaccharides can significantly increase the level of corticosterone in animal plasma. Therefore, it can be considered that these effects are achieved through the adrenal cortex.