What are the effects and functions of Sophora flavescens?

There are actually many functions and effects of Sophora flavescens. It can better help us with beauty and skin care, promote the growth and repair of damaged blood vessel nerve cells, and has good antibacterial and anti-tumor effects. Sophora flavescens can be brewed into Sophora flavescens tea for drinking.

1. Beauty and skin care effects: It is cold in nature, has the effects of clearing away heat, drying dampness, and killing insects. Sophora flavescens bath can clear away dampness and heat in the lower abdomen, kill insects and relieve itching, and has a good effect on relieving skin itching. Plant Chinese herbal medicine can balance oil secretion, dredge and tighten pores, remove toxins and impurities in the skin. The rich herbal nutrition promotes the growth and repair of damaged blood vessel nerve cells, restores the vitality of subcutaneous capillary cells, and makes the skin firm and smooth again, playing a role in beauty and skin care.

2. Antibacterial effect: The ether extract and alcohol extract of Sophora flavescens have a strong antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus; the water extract of Sophora flavescens has an inhibitory effect on Trichophyton violaceum, Trichophyton concentricum, Trichophyton sylvatica, and Microsporum audouinum.

3. Anti-tumor effect: Sophora flavescens has an inhibitory effect on Ehrlich ascites carcinoma and sarcoma-180 in mice both in vivo and in vitro.

4. White blood cell increasing effect: Total sophora flavescens alkaloids and oxysophora flavescens alkaloids have obvious white blood cell increasing effect, and have obvious therapeutic effect on leukopenia caused by cyclophosphamide, X-ray and cobalt ray irradiation.

5. Anti-inflammatory effect: Sophora flavescens has an inhibitory effect on the ear swelling caused by croton oil in mice, the increased peritoneal exudation in mice caused by acetic acid, and the carrageenan-induced foot pad swelling in rats.

6. Antiarrhythmic effect: Sophora flavescens can counteract chloroform-epinephrine-induced ventricular fibrillation in cats; it can also counteract aconitine-induced arrhythmia in rats and ouabain-induced ventricular fibrillation in guinea pigs. It has a significant antagonistic effect on ventricular fibrillation in mice caused by chloroform inhalation, arrhythmia in rats induced by aconitine, and arrhythmia in rabbits induced by chloroform-epinephrine; total flavonoids from Sophora flavescens can also antagonize spontaneous and ouabain-induced arrhythmias in myocardial cell clusters. In addition, Sophora flavescens has a significant diuretic effect; Sophora flavescens alkaloids also have sedative, antiasthmatic and immunosuppressive effects.