Description
Fructus Forsythiae (Lian Chao) P.E.10:1
It has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Shigella, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Bacillus pertussis, and influenza virus, rhinovirus, and fungi. It can significantly inhibit inflammatory exudation and enhance the ability of mice to phagocytose inflammatory cells. The aqueous solution can reduce blood pressure, and the rutin contained in it can enhance the density of capillaries. In addition, there are antipyretic, antiemetic, diuretic, anti-liver damage and other effects.
Bitter cool and slightly cold in nature and taste, enter the lung, heart and gallbladder meridians. It is good at clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispelling carbuncle and dispersing knot, and treating sore carbuncle and scrofula. It is known as the “Holy Medicine for Sore Households”; it also clears heat and detoxifies and can raise the floating, disperse and diathermy, and is often used to treat exogenous wind-heat and early onset of warm diseases. Use with caution in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency cold or qi deficiency with sores and pus.
Forsythia is good at clearing the heart and purging fire, and it is often used to treat high fever and irritability that enter the pericardium.
Harvest Season: Autumn
