What are the effects of Trichosanthes

Many friends have only a superficial understanding of traditional Chinese medicine in their lives. Trichosanthes kirilowii is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a powder made from smallpox. It has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on some different diseases that may occur in our body. So everyone is curious about some of the effects of Trichosanthes kirilowii. So what are the effects of Trichosanthes kirilowii? What diseases can it help us treat?

The efficacy and function of Radix Trichosanthis

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(I) The role of Radix Trichosanthis

Clears away heat and promotes salivation

It is used for thirst caused by loss of body fluid due to febrile disease, and can also be used for diabetes caused by excessive heat in the lungs and stomach. It is often used together with Radix Rehmanniae, Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, and Rhizoma Phragmit

Clear the lungs and resolve phlegm

It is used to treat lung heat and dry cough, with the main symptoms being cough, little and difficult sputum, dry throat, and little or thick and greasy tongue coating. This product can not only eliminate phlegm and turbidity, but also moisten the lungs and relieve cough. It is especially suitable for dry phlegm accumulated in the lungs.

Detoxification and swelling

It is often used together with honeysuckle and red peony root to treat sores and swellings caused by severe dryness and toxicity.

Termination of pregnancy

Can cause miscarriage in pregnant women.

Other functions

This product is sweet, cold, and refreshing. It is good at clearing heat from the lungs and stomach and producing fluid to relieve dryness. It is commonly used for symptoms of damage to the lungs and stomach fluid and internal heat. In addition, it can reduce swelling and discharge pus to treat sores and carbuncles.

【Pharmacological action】

Enhance immunity

Trichosanthin protein is immunogenic and can promote the production of immunoglobulins. It has strong antigenicity and can cause allergic reactions in animals. It can gradually increase the IgE and IgG antibodies against trichosanthin protein in the serum of pregnant women. Trichosanthin is a nonspecific immunopotentiator.

Anti-cancer

It has an inhibitory effect on tumor cells S180 and U14. Trichosanthin has a unique therapeutic effect on choriocarcinoma and can selectively damage choriocarcinoma cells and melanoma cells. It is effective in the clinical treatment of malignant hydatidiform mole and choriocarcinoma.

Local injection and intraperitoneal injection of trichosanthin tumor tissue can significantly inhibit the growth of rat WK256, mouse reticulum cell sarcoma ascites type, U14 ascites type and mouse breast cancer. It has a significant inhibitory effect on both solid tumor and ascites types of liver cancer in mice, can reduce the amount of ascites and prolong survival. In addition, Radix Trichosanthis polysaccharides also have anti-cancer activity.

Antiviral

Trichosanthin has a strong inhibitory effect on the replication and spread of human immunodeficiency virus in the cells of AIDS patients, and reduces the ratio of infected cells to uninfected cells.

In recent years, it has been used to treat AIDS. The backbone structure of trichosanthin is consistent with that of abrin A chain and ricin A chain, and both have cytotoxic and immunotoxin activities.

Using RNA and DNA as substrates, trichosanthin can degrade their single strands, unwind and relax their double strands, and can stop protein synthesis by catalytically inactivating the ribosome 60S subunit. This is of guiding significance for clarifying the antiviral mechanism of action of trichosanthin.

The above is an introduction to the effects of Radix Trichosanthis. Radix Trichosanthis can help us achieve the effects of clearing the lungs and reducing phlegm, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and it has a good effect on the treatment of pharyngitis and cough. Therefore, Radix Trichosanthis is a Chinese medicinal material that is very beneficial to our body. If our body has the symptoms described above, we can use Radix Trichosanthis to relieve them.