What Are the Medical Uses of Agrimonia Eupatoria?

Dragon bud grass (scientific name: Agrimonia pilosa Ldb.) Is a perennial herb of the family Rosaceae and dragon bud grass. The roots are mostly tuberous, the rhizomes are short, the stems can reach 120 cm in height, the leaves are intermittently pinnate compound leaves, and the petioles are sparsely pubescent or pubescent; , Sharply pointed to obtusely serrated at the edges, sparsely hairy, sparsely glabrescent, stipules grassy, green, sickle-shaped, stipules of lower stems sometimes ovate-lanceolate, inflorescence spike-like racemes Inflorescence axis pilose, pedicel pilose; lobes banded, bracteoles opposite, ovate, sepals triangular ovate; petals yellow, style filiform, stigma capitate. The fruit is obovate and cone-shaped, flowering and fruiting from May to December.

It is distributed in all provinces in North and South China. Central Europe as well as Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan and northern Vietnam are distributed. It is often born near streams, roadsides, grasslands, thickets, forest margins and under sparse forests, at an altitude of 100-3800 meters. ^[3]

All provinces in North and South China are produced. Central Europe, as well as the Soviet Union, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan and northern Vietnam. ^[4]

It can be propagated with seeds or bred.

The main pest is red spider, which sucks the stems and leaves, causing the leaves to wither and fall off, and the plants die. Pharmacological sprays such as kemite and bamate can be selected for prevention and control. ^[5]

For Dragon Bud Herb

Sexual Taste Meridian : Taste bitter, astringent, flat, return to the intestines, stomach, and spleen; ^[7]

Function Indications : Longya Cao has the effects of hemostasis, stomach strengthening, smooth intestines, diarrhea and insecticide. Indications of fatigue, fatigue, irregular menstruation, red collateral vaginal discharge, cold stomach pain, red and white dysentery, vomiting blood, hemoptysis, intestinal wind, hematuria, uterine bleeding, duodenal bleeding and other symptoms. The whole herb extracts celestin to the blood medicine.

Clinical usage : According to Zhao Teng Zhaoyan (Japan), Agrimony extract (500 micrograms / ml) showed very significant selective toxicity on human cervical cancer cells and normal cell cell culture, and the inhibition rate on cancer cells was 100%. However, it has 100% growth promotion effect on human normal cells. ^[6]

Dragon bud grass health

Medical research shows that: Longya Cao has a strong anti-cancer effect. The water-soluble components of the whole grass have a strong inhibitory effect on mouse sarcoma S-180, mouse Lewis lung cancer LL-14, and melanoma B-22, B-16. "Japanese Pharmaceutical Journal" reported that the extract of Rootgrass Root has a strong inhibitory effect on aquamarine cancer cells, and has a therapeutic effect on Ehrlich's membrane water cancer. "The Asahi Shimbun" also reported that Japan screened nearly a thousand natural medicines and obtained 3 kinds of Chinese medicine with the highest activity, one of which was the decoction of dragon bud grass, and at the same time, it had a growth promotion effect on 100 normal human cells. effect. Regarding the anti-cancer efficacy of Longya Cao, experts have evaluated this: "Traditional chemotherapy drugs are like a double-edged sword, which kills both cancer cells and normal cells. And like Longya Cao, both kill cancer cells and Beneficial to normal cells, it is rare. " ^[8]

Longya grass nutrition facts

There are 71 grams of water in every 100 grams of Longya grass stems and leaves, 11.2 mg of carotene, and 150 mg of vitamin C. It also contains protein, carbohydrates, minerals and other nutrients.

Longya grass chemical composition

Four compounds were isolated from the 95% ethanol extract of the whole plant of the medicinal plant Agrimonia pilosa Ledeb, and were identified as stigmaster-5-ene-3, 7-diol by physical and chemical properties and spectroscopy. (1), stigmaster-5-ene-37, -diol (2), stigmaster-36, -diol (3), and -sitosterol (4). Compounds 1-3 were isolated for the first time from Longya grass.