Saturday 2 November 2013

Chinese Herbs – Shui Zhi (Hirudo seu Whitmania)

Shui Zhi is also known as leech. The caulty, bitter, neutral and toxic herb has been used in TCM to dissolve blood clot, lower blood lipids, terminate pregnancy, etc., as it breaks up the Blood. eliminates Blood accumulation, etc. by enhancing the function of liver and bladder channels.
Ingredients
1. Hirudin
2. Heparin
3. Antithrombin
4. Etc.

Health Benefits
1. Anticoagulant 
in the study to investigate the s anticoagulant constituents in dried leech (Whitmania pigra Whitman), showed that in three anticoagulant polypeptides isolated and purified. compounds 1 and 2 can be translated each other in natural conditions, and their molecular weights are 7100 and 5531, respectively and compound 3 was identified as a pure polypeptide by HPLC and SDS-PAGE, and its molecular weight was determined as 8 608 by MALDI-TOF-MS(1)
2. Osteoarthritis
in the study to evaluate the possible efficacy of medical leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) in the treatment of patients with active osteoarthritis of the knee, indicated that single leech therapy showed significant, relevant and sustaining effects, comparable to other trials with leeches. The method deserves further research, esp. into mechanisms of possible specific effects and optimization of dosing by number of leeches and possible repeats(2).
3. Free flap breast reconstruction
There was a report of a case of  a leech tunneling through a dermal bite wound on a breast free flap, according to the State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey(3).
4. Etc.

Side Effects
1. Do not use in  case of blood deficiency or without blood stasis
2. Overdose can damage kidney and liver
3. Do not use the herb in newborn, children or if you are pregnant or breast feeding without first consulting with the related field specialist.
4. Etc.
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Sources
(1) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19260310
(2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22305242
(3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21664204

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