{"id":1330,"date":"2013-01-27T22:28:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T22:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2013-01-27T22:35:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T22:35:47","slug":"kutki-picrorrhiza-kurroa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Kutki ~ Picrorrhiza kurroa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Kutki<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.riverssourcebotanicals.com\/product_images\/Picrorhiza_kurroa_31641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"196\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Picrorrhiza kurroa<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Scrophulariaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: dried rhizome<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: Himalayan mountains from Kashmir in India to Sikkim<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: glucoside (picrorrhizin), glucose, wax, cathartic acid<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: cooling, bitter<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: small doses: bitter stomachic, tonic; large doses: anti-periodic, cathartic, cholagogue; anti-inflammatory<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: emmenagogue, abortifacient, emetic, antibacterial, antifungal, antipyretic<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: constipation, poor eyesight, conjunctivitis, fever, paralysis, skin diseases<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: malaria, epilepsy, yeast and viral infections<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: tincture, extract, powder, pills, capsules: 7 grams qd<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: relatively safe long-term<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: http:\/\/www.holistic-online.com\/Herbal-Med\/_Herbs\/h162.htm; http:\/\/www.herbalists.on.ca\/resources\/freeman\/PICRORRH.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kutki Latin name: Picrorrhiza kurroa Family: Scrophulariaceae Part used: dried rhizome Habitat: Himalayan mountains from Kashmir in India to Sikkim Main constituents: glucoside (picrorrhizin), glucose, wax, cathartic acid Energetics: cooling, bitter Main herbal actions: small doses: bitter stomachic, tonic; large doses: anti-periodic, cathartic, cholagogue; anti-inflammatory Minor herbal actions: emmenagogue, abortifacient, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,183,4,39,171,40,328,326,37,36,20,324,329,327,32,330,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-inflammatory","category-antiperiodic","category-aryuvedic-herbs","category-bitter","category-cathartic","category-cholagogue","category-conjunctivitis","category-constipation","category-cooling","category-energetics-taste","category-health-conditions","category-module-2","category-paralysis","category-poor-eyesight","category-properties","category-skin-disease","category-stomachic","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}