Rabbit tail herb, also known as foxtail, is generally not harmful to the liver.
Foxtail is the whole grass of Rabbit Tail Grass, a leguminous plant in the family of Leguminosae, which is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Foxtail grass is used as medicine with the whole grass, which is flat in nature, sweet and light in flavor, and has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing knots and eliminating swellings, and inducing diuresis and lymphatic flow.
Foxtail is usually used clinically to treat colds, jaundice, pediatric pneumonia, abdominal pain and diarrhea, carbuncle sores and swelling, poisonous snake bites, sand drenching and urinary blood, and women’s mid-month labor injuries. At present, the adverse reactions and contraindications of Foxtail are not clear, and no study has shown that Foxtail is harmful to the liver.
If patients need to use Foxtail, please use under the guidance of a doctor, do not blindly use their own medicine, so as not to cause discomfort.