| Class and Class No. | 3A ( 15 ) |
| Name: | Li Man Pok |
| Year: | 2017-2018 |
Instruction: Type in useful information in the space provided.
| Chinese name: | 黃芩 |
| Family Name (科名): | 唇形科 Lamiaceae |
| Scientific name (學名): | Scutellaria baicalensis |
| Common name (俗名): | 腐腸、子芩、宿芩、條芩 |
| 習性：
多年生草本，高30-80厘米。莖四棱形，具細條紋，近無毛或被向上開展的微柔毛；根莖肉質，分枝。 |
Growth habit:
Perennial herb, 30-80cm high. Stems tetragonal, with fine stripes, nearly glabrous or upward extended puberulent |
| 葉：
為互對生，呈披針狀或是線狀披針形，尖端漸尖，長約1.5-4.5mm，寬約3-12mm。 |
Leaf:
Leaves decussate; sessile or subsessile; leaf blade lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, length 1.5-4.5cm, width 3-12mm. |
| 花：
為紫藍色或紫綠色，花萼為二唇形或花冠為二唇形。 |
Flower:
Purplish red or bluish purple, upper lip galeate, apex emarginate, lower lip wide, middle lobes triangular oval, warty. Flowering: June to September |
| 果：
為四枚小堅果，卵球形，呈黑褐色。 |
Fruit:
It contains 4 nutlets , ovoid, black brown, warty. fruiting: August to October. |
| 性味功能
以根入藥。中藥名: 黃芩。 |
Properties
Medical part: roots. Chinese name: Huangqin. |
| 主治
肺熱咳嗽，熱病高熱神昏，肝火頭痛，目赤腫痛，濕熱黃疸，瀉痢，熱淋，吐衄血，崩漏，胎熱不安，癰腫疔瘡。脾胃虛寒，少食便溏者禁服。 |
Treats
Usage Cough with lung heat, fever and coma, headache induced by hepatic fire, swelling pain induced by conjunctival congestion, jaundice with damp-heat pathogen, dysentery, pyretic stranguria, hematemesis and non-traumatic hemorrhage, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, fetal movement with fever, anthracia and furunculosis, deficiency cold of the spleen, prohibited to patients with poor appetite and loose stool. |
| 知多一點點：
黃芩抗菌，抗炎，對心腦的保護作用，保肝，免疫調節功能，抗腫瘤，抗過敏。 |
More to learn:
It treats anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, heart-brain-protecting, hepatic-protective, immunity-regulating and anti-tumors and antiallergic |
Previous Scientific Research (if any):
| 1. 清熱燥濕中藥──黄芩藥理研究新知http://www.nricm.edu.tw/files/14-1000-889,r11-1.php
2. A specialized flavone biosynthetic pathway has evolved in the medicinal plant, Scutellaria baicalensis http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501780 |
Useful Link:
| Topics | Hyperlinks |
| The bad effct of using Scutellaria baicalensis | http://tcm-toxic.kmu.edu.tw/index.php/%E9%BB%83%E8%8A%A9 |
| The phytochemical image of Scutellaria baicalensis | http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=22253&lang=eng&searchword=code=P00205 |
| The use of Scutellaria baicalensis in traditional Chinese medicine | http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?record=1&channelid=44273&searchword=%E9%BB%83%E8%8A%A9&sortfield=+name_chi_sort |
| Brief introduction of Scutellaria baicalensis | http://libproject.hkbu.edu.hk/was40/detail?channelid=47953&searchword=pid=B00072 |
Questions:
| (Beginner) | Q1.Please the describe how does the fruit of this plant look like?
Answer: It contains 4 nutlets , ovoid, black brown, warty. |
| (Elementary) | Q2 What is the phytochemical name of Scutellaria baicalensis?
Answer: Baicalein. |
| (Advanced) | Q3. Please list out what diseases can the plant treat?
Answer: Cough with lung heat, fever and coma, headache induced by hepatic fire, swelling pain induced by conjunctival congestion. |
