What are the functions and effects of Scutellaria baicalensis?

Scutellaria baicalensis is a famous Chinese herbal medicine. There are special records of Scutellaria baicalensis in Chinese medicine. This medicine has many functions. Basically, it has a certain therapeutic effect on some difficult and complicated diseases. This medicine is also relatively easy to obtain. It is generally more abundant in the mountains. What are the functions and effects of Scutellaria baicalensis? Let’s take a look at the simple explanation below.

Scutellaria baicalensis is also known as camellia root and camellia root. It is a plant of the Lamiaceae family, Scutellaria baicalensis, and its root is used as medicine. It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, cooling blood and stabilizing pregnancy, and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat febrile diseases, upper respiratory tract infections, lung heat cough, damp-heat jaundice, pneumonia, dysentery, hemoptysis, red eyes, fetal movement disorder, hypertension, carbuncles, furuncles, etc. In clinical applications, Scutellaria baicalensis is better than Coptis chinensis in antibacterial effects and does not produce drug resistance.

The main functions are as follows:

1. Clear away heat and dampness, purge fire and detoxify, stop bleeding, stabilize the fetus and lower blood pressure. It is used for chest tightness and nausea due to damp-heat and summer-heat, fullness and distension due to damp-heat, diarrhea, jaundice, cough due to lung heat, high fever and thirst, vomiting and bleeding due to blood heat, carbuncles, sores and fetal movement disorder.

2. It is used for damp-heat fever, chest tightness, thirst without desire to drink, damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice and other symptoms. For fever caused by damp-heat, it can be used in combination with talcum powder, white cardamom seed, Poria cocos, etc.; for diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by damp-heat, it can be used together with white peony root, kudzu root, licorice, etc.; for jaundice caused by accumulation of damp-heat, it can be used together with artemisia capillaris, gardenia, and lophatherum gracile, etc.

3. It is used for fever, high fever, thirst, lung heat cough, excessive heat forcing blood to overflow, and heat-toxic sores, etc. For treating high fever due to fever, it is often used together with Coptis chinensis, Gardenia jasminoides, etc.; for treating lung heat cough, it can be used together with Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Morus alba bark, etc.; for treating blood heat, it can be used together with Rehmannia glutinosa, Paeonia suffruticosa, Platycladus orientalis, etc.; for treating heat and toxic sores, it can be used together with Honeysuckle, Forsythia suspensa, etc. In addition, this product has the effect of clearing heat and calming the fetus. It can be used for fetal movement disorder and is often used in combination with Atractylodes macrocephala, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, etc.