Japanese Beauty-Berry
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Hemostatics
Japanese Beauty-Berry
Latin:
Folium Callicarpae Nudiflorae
Origin:
The leaf of a plant of Callicarpa L. of Verbenaceae. The varieties in common use of the plants include Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl (bigleaf beautyberry) and Callicarpa nudiflora Hook. et Arn. (naked flower beauty berry). They mostly grow on slopes, in brushwood, in swampy localities and ravines in China and India.
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Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl (bigleaf beautyberry) is an evergreen shrub that grows to about 2.5 m high. The whole plant is covered with greyish white furfuraceous long setae. It has oblong simple leaves 15 to 25 cm in length with serrate edges. Axillary cymes come out in summer with purple corollas. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs). It has round fruits as big as mung beans which become purplish red when they ripen, so it is also known as the "purple beads". The plant can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil.
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Callicarpa nudiflora Hook. et Arn. (nakedflower beautyberry) is similar in shape to Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl (bigleaf beautyberry), but its old stems are bare and bald and there are lenticels on them. It has smaller leaves with less hair, whose faces turn brown after drying and the cymes have shorter stalks.
Properties:
Bitter and astringent in flavor, cool in nature, it is related to the liver, lung and stomach channels.
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Functions:
Arrests bleeding, clears away heat and toxic substances, induces diuresis and cures jaundice.
Applications:
1. Arresting bleeding:
This herb is a good hemostat used for a large variety of internal and external bleeding syndromes. With regard to traumatic and postoperative bleeding, this drug can not only arrest bleeding, but also prevent and treat infections.
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It can be used in combination with oriental arborvitae twig and leaf (Cacumen et Folium Biotae) and it is especially good for thrombocytopenic bleeding ((persistent decrease in the number of blood platelets that is often associated with hemorrhagic conditions).
2. Clearing away heat and toxic substances:
This herb can prevent and treat wound surface infection and reduce body fluid exudation (because the decoction can form a thin film on the wound surface) to reduce the amount of fluid infusion and lower the incidence of shocks.
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a) Burns:
A 100% nakedflower beautyberry leaf (Folium Callicarpas Nudiflorae) decoction is used for spraying, spreading or wet application onto the wound surface.
b) Suppurative (discharge pus) skin ulceration:
This herb produces good effects on suppurative skin ulceration when used for external application.
a) Cervicitis and vaginitis (including any ailment caused by trichomonads, moniliae and general bacteria):
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After the affected part is locally rinsed with thin beautyberry leaf decoction, a cotton suppository soaked with a 50% beautyberry leaf decoction is inserted, and taken out 12 to 24 hours later. Or the powder is used for local spraying once daily for more than 5 days in succession.
This herb produces rather good curative effects against conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcer, trachomata, etc., and even better effects against epidemic keratoconjunctivitis.
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b) Conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcer, trachomata, etc.:
10% beautyberry leaf normal saline is used for dropping into the eyes a few times daily.
3. Inducing diuresis and curing jaundice:
Nakedflower beautyberry leaf (Folium Callicarpas Nudiflorae) decoction is used each day in 3 portions.
Dosage and Administration:
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10-15 g.
Use generally for oral administration.
During operations, its solution can be used to soak gauze for external application. In general, bleeding can be stopped 1 to 3 minutes later. Larger blood vessels should be ligatured.
Cautions on Use:
Reference Materials:
Toxic or Side Effects:
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Modern Researches:
According to chemical analysis, largeleaf beautyberry leaf contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, tannin, saccharides, etc.
According to antibacterial tests, this herb has rather powerful inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus and hemolyptic streptococcus and certain effects on Shigella flexneri, typhoid bacillus and Bacillus pyocyaneus.
According to pharmacological studies, both largeleaf beautyberry leaf and nakedflower beautyberry leaf can contract capillaries and shorten bleeding time and blood coagulation time, so they can produce good clinical effects on internal and external bleeding.
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According to clinical reports, nakedflower beautyberry leaf gives better effects when used externally for the treatment of burns and for skin sterilization and when administered orally for the treatment of acute icteric or anicteric hepatitis.
According to reports, the effective hemostatic ingredients of largeleaf beautyberry, Taiwan beautyberry (Callicarpa formosana), etc. are soluble in water, but those of largeleaf beautyberry are not soluble in alcohol, so attention should be paid to this during extraction., http://www.100md.com