Notopterygium Root Extract

Notopterygium root, also known as Qiang Huo, comes with a long history of medicinal application. First found in the “Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic”, notopterygium was listed under the item Angelica Root (Du Huo). That’s to say, these two Chinese herbs were considered to be the same thing then. And this belief didn’t change until the Yao Xing Ben Cao (Materia Medica of Medicinal Properties) was published in Tang Dynasty. Medicinally this root herb is one of the main raw materials for the manufacture of Chinese Traditional Patent Medicine for joint pain relief and rheumatoid arthritis treatment.

1. Its injection has analgesic and antipyretic effects. In addition, it has inhibition on skin fungus and brucellosis;

2. Its soluble portion has experimental anti-arrhythmic effect;

3. Its volatile oil also has anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic effects. And it can resist against pituitrin-induced myocardial ischemia and increase myocardial nutritional blood flow;

4. Its volatile oil still inhibits delayed type hypersensitivity in mice.

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