Chinese Herbs In Western View - Mao Gen Or Bai Mao Gen (Rhizonma Imperatae Cylindricae) Health Benefits And Side Effects

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Mao Gen or Bai Mao Gen is also known as rhizome of wooly grass. The sweet and cold herb has been used in TCM to stops bleeding, anti bacteria and anti virus, promotes urination, etc., as it cools blood, stops bleeding; suppresses heat and promotes urination, clears heat from stomach and lung, etc., by enhancing the lung, stomach, small intestine and bladder channels.

Ingredients
1. Glucose
2. Potassium salt
3. Oxalic acid
4. Carotene
5. Vitamins
6. Anemonin
7. Etc.

Health Benefits
1. Ferritin
Ferritin is of interest at the structural and functional level not only as storage for iron, a critical element, but also as a means to prevent cell damage produced by oxidative stress. In the confirmation by immunocytochemistry the presence and the subcellular distribution of the ferritin detected by Mösbauer spectroscopy in Imperata cylindrica, a plant which accumulates large amounts of iron, showed that The abundance of immunogold labelling in mitochondria for I. cylindrica was rather low, probably because the study dealt with tissues from old plants. These results further expand the localization of ferritin in cell components other than chloroplasts and mitochondria in plants(1).

2. Combat pathogenic bacteria and reduce the development of antibiotic resistance
The misuse of antibiotics has contributed to widespread development of antimicrobial resistance among clinically significant bacterial species. Alternative approaches other than those using antibiotics are needed in the fight against infectious diseases. Testing for anti-QS activity, 10 TCM herbs were screened using two biomonitor strains, Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01. Interference with violacein (purple pigment) production in CV026 (exogenously supplied with homoserine lactone signals), and swarming in PA01, both QS-regulated phenomena, was used as indication of anti-QS activity. Eight of the selected TCM (80%) yielded QS inhibitors: Prunus armeniaca, Prunella vulgaris, Nelumbo nucifera, Panax notoginseng (root and flower), Punica granatum, Areca catechu, and Imperata cylindrica. Compounds that interfere with QS are present in TCM herbs and these medicines may be a rich source of compounds to combat pathogenic bacteria and reduce the development of antibiotic resistance(2).

3. Anti cancers
Methanol extracts from thirty-four spices and plants, with related ethnobotanical use were investigated for their in vitro cytotoxicity on the human pancreatic cancer cell line MiaPaCa-2, leukemia CCRF-CEM cells and their multidrug resistant (MDR) subline CEM/ADR5000, and the normal human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), showed that indicated that, when tested at 20 μg/ml, extracts from Xylopia aethiopica, Echinops giganteus, Imperata cylindrica, Dorstenia psilirus and Piper capense were able to inhibit more that 50% the proliferation of the three tested cancer cells (MiaPaCa-2, CEM/ADR5000 CCRF-CEM). The lowest IC(50) values of 6.86 μg/ml on MiaPaCa-2 and 3.91 μg/ml on CCRF-CEM cells were obtained with X. aethiopica, while the corresponding value of 6.56 μg/ml was obtained with P. capense on CEM/ADR5000 cells. Against leukemia cells, no cross-resistance was observed with I. cylindrica, P. capense and Zinziber officinalis. Extracts from D. psilirus and E. giganteus were able to inhibit angiogenesis by more than 50% in quail embryo(3)

4. Etc.

Side Effects
1. Do not use the herb in case of spleen deficiency or  kidney yang deficiency
2. Do not use the herb in newborn, children, or if you are pregnant or breast feeding without first consulting with related field specialist
3. Etc.
 

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Sources
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21764425
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21439518
(3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21291988

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