What is Psoralea corylifolia?

Today's living conditions are getting better and better, but our physical health is getting worse and worse, mainly due to the influence of the environment. With the continuous advancement of technology, pollution in the era of industrial development is indeed a very big problem. What we eat and use will be affected to varying degrees. Psoralea corylifolia can also be used in our lives. Next, let’s take a look at the question of what kind of medicine Psoralea corylifolia is.

1. The Chinese medicinal herb Psoralea corylifolia, also known as Pogostemon cablin, Amaranthus chinensis, and Allium fortunei, etc. This product is the dried mature fruit of the leguminous plant Psoralea corylifolia. In autumn, when the fruits are ripe, harvest the inflorescences, dry them in the sun, rub out the fruits, and remove impurities. It has a fragrant smell and tastes spicy and slightly bitter. It has the effects of warming the kidney, invigorating yang, absorbing qi and stopping diarrhea. It is used for impotence and spermatorrhea, enuresis and frequent urination, cold pain in the waist and knees, asthma due to kidney deficiency, and diarrhea at dawn; it can be used externally to treat vitiligo and alopecia areata.

2. The crude extract of Psoralea corylifolia can treat vitiligo and psoriasis. It can be applied topically or taken orally. It is now known that its active ingredient is psoralen, which has very low toxicity and requires large doses to cause teratogenesis (experiments on rats and guinea pigs). The extract from the seeds of P.leguminosea, a plant of the same genus, has a photosensitizing effect on rabbits and can treat vitiligo.

3. The extract of Psoralea corylifolia seeds has an antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus aureus resistant to antibiotics such as penicillin in test tubes; Psoralea corylifolia has a certain effect on mold on Sabouraud's medium, and the tincture has a stronger effect than the decoction. The petroleum ether extract of the seeds has an inhibitory effect on earthworms and may therefore have an anthelmintic effect.

4. The extract of Psoralea corylifolia seeds has a stimulating effect on the isolated and in situ intestines, and a relaxant effect on the isolated guinea pig uterus.

5. Giving female mice (ovariectomized mice and normal mice) 0.35 grams or 0.175 grams of dry powder of Psoralea corylifolia seeds (mixed in the diet) every day can increase vaginal keratinization. This effect is reversible. 0.25 grams can open the vagina of immature female mice. This estrogen-like effect is extremely weak, and psoralen has no such effect. Feeding 0.35 grams of seed powder for 37 to 77 days can damage the fertility of adult female mice, but it can be restored one week after switching to a normal diet. There is no effect when feeding male mice for 46 days.

The above is a relatively simple answer to the question of what kind of medicine Psoralea corylifolia is. The above explanation allows us to clearly understand what kind of medicinal material Psoralea corylifolia is and what effects it has on our body. If we want to have a healthy body, we need to pay more attention to it in our daily life, not to eat indiscriminately, especially to take medicine casually.