Latin name<\/i>: Eclipta prostata<\/strong><\/p>\n Family<\/i>: Asteraceae<\/p>\n Part used<\/i>: herb, roots, leaves<\/p>\n Habitat<\/i>: China, southwestern U.S., India (related species)<\/p>\n Main constituents<\/i>: steroidal alkaloids<\/p>\n Energetics<\/i>: sweet, sour, cool<\/p>\n Main herbal actions<\/i>: cholagogue (roots and leaves); emetic, tonic, purgative, alterative(root); vulnerary alterative, antipyretic, nervine, hemostatic, rejuvenative, laxative, tonic, (herb); hepatic tonic (leaf juice)<\/p>\n Minor herbal actions<\/i>: antiseptic (juice), tonifying to teeth, bones, hearing memory, and sight<\/p>\n Main medicinal uses<\/i>: liver cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, anemia, dysentery, eye diseases, asthma, skin inflammation, cuts, abrasions, burns<\/p>\n Minor medicinal uses<\/i>: liver enlargement, jaundice and other ailments of the liver and gall bladder, upper respiratory congestion; traditionally used to prevent aging and rejuvenate the hair<\/p>\n Preparations<\/i>: fresh expressed juice: 5-10 ml tid; decoction of root: 1tsp\/cup water; leaf power: 3-5 g bid<\/p>\n Contraindications<\/i>: none known<\/p>\n Toxicity<\/i>: can cause severe chills<\/p>\n Comment:<\/i> Overlap between information available on Indian and Chinese species. Both systems use as primary herb for haior and graying of hair.<\/p>\n Sources<\/i>: http:\/\/www.tropilab.com\/eclipta.html; http:\/\/www.holistic-online.com\/Herbal-Med\/_Herbs\/h130.htm; http:\/\/www.niam.com\/corp-web\/eclipta.htm0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eclipta (Han Lian Cao) Latin name: Eclipta prostata Family: Asteraceae Part used: herb, roots, leaves Habitat: China, southwestern U.S., India (related species) Main constituents: steroidal alkaloids Energetics: sweet, sour, cool Main herbal actions: cholagogue (roots and leaves); emetic, tonic, purgative, alterative(root); vulnerary alterative, antipyretic, nervine, hemostatic, rejuvenative, laxative, tonic, (herb); …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,102,3,40,267,96,163,49,57,512,90,116,89,214,78,46,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alterative","category-antipyretic","category-chinese-herbs","category-cholagogue","category-cool","category-emetic","category-hemostatic","category-laxative","category-liver-tonic","category-module-3","category-nervine","category-purgative","category-rejuvenative","category-sour","category-sweet","category-tonic","category-vulnerary","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}