What is Forsythia Fruit?

Contents

• Basic Botanical Data of Forsythia Fruit.
• Main Chemical Content.
• Properties and Effects.
• Actions and Indications.
• Modern applications.
• Cautions and Contraindications.
• Part Used and Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations.
• Indications and Combinations.
• Research Update:Forsythia suspensa.

Actions and Indications.:

1. clears heat and toxin, nodules. Expels externally contracted wind heat as in common cold

 2. For treating suppurative infections on body surface caused by noxious heat, acute mastitis and furunculosis, it is often used in combination with heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, such as honeysuckle flower, capejasmine fruit and coptis root. In cases of scrofula and subcutaneous nodule, it may be used in combination with prunella spike, oyster shell and scrophularia root, and other drugs for eliminating scrofula and dissolving lumps.

 3. For the exopathogenic wind-heat affection, or the epidemic febrile diseases at the early stage, it is often used in combination with the diaphoretics which is pungent in flavour and cool in nature, such as pepper mint and arctium fruit. In cases of pathogenic heat invasion of ying division, high fever, delirium, deep red and dry tongue, it is often used in combination with rhinoceros horn, ophiopogon root and scrophularia root, or other heat-clearing and blood-cooling drugs.

Reference:

• 1.What is Forsythia Fruit?

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♣ last edit date:20th,Oct.2010.