| [English Name] | Lychee Seed | |
| [Chinese Name] | 荔枝核 | |
| [Pinying Name] | Lizhihe | |
| [Latin Name] | Semen Litchi | |
| [Genera] | Sapindaceae | |
| [Efficacy] | Qi-regulating drug | |
| [Pictures] | Plant picture | Drug picture |
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| [Ecology] | Lychee usually grows in mountain forest in southern China,and also is planted at the door. | |
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The litchi nucleus extract fluid can decrease level of bloodglucose in diabetic mice induced by alloxan and has the function of regulatingthe disorder condition of blood lipid. The litchi nucleus extract fluid has acertain effect on clearing oxygen free radical and improves anti-oxidationability. Flavonoids in semen litchi could inhibit the hepatitis B surfaceantigen (HBsAg), hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and DNA in hepatitis B virus(HBV DNA) significantly. |
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1．Lixiang powder (jingyue quanshu ): pain induced by hernia, pain in lower abdomen 2．Lizhi powder (zhengzhi zhunsheng ): swollen scrotum with severe pain induced by hernia 3．Lijuexiang powder (zhongyao linchuang yingyong ): pain caused by male hernia |
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| [References] |
chemical composition [1] editorial board of the state administration of traditional 《chinese herbal medicine》. chinese herbal medicine [m], shanghai science and technology press, 1999, 5 :117-119 (total 3983). [2] tu peng fei, luo qing, zheng jun hua. studies on chemical constituents in seed of litchi chinensis [j]. , chinese traditional and herbal drugs,2003,33(4):300-303. [3] liu xingqian,liu bo,nie xiaoqin.isolation and identification of traditional chinese medicine litchi both the chemical composition[j]. journal of chengdu unversity of tarditional chinese medicine,2001,24(1):55. toxicology [1]shen wenyao,etal. zhejiang science，1986,3（4）：8 |
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