Scutellaria baicalensis has the effects of clearing heat and drying dampness (removing heat and drying dampness), diarrhea, detoxification, stopping bleeding, and tranquilizing the fetus. Scutellaria baicalensis is mainly used to treat fetus fever and restlessness, lung-heat coughing, liver-heat headache, and heat drenching (burning and stinging pain is obvious when urinating, accompanied by frequent urination and urgent urination, and discomfort from pulling in the lower abdomen), and so on.
Scutellaria baicalensis belongs to the heat-clearing and dampness-drying medicines among the heat-clearing medicines. Scutellaria baicalensis is the root of Scutellaria baicalensis of the family Labiatae. Scutellaria baicalensis enters the lung, gallbladder, spleen, large intestine and small intestine meridians, with bitter flavor and cold nature. Scutellaria baicalensis has the effects of clearing heat and drying dampness, diarrhea, detoxification, stopping bleeding, and tranquilizing the fetus.
Scutellaria baicalensis is used in the treatment of fetal fever, coughing with lung heat, epistaxis, metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling), headache with liver fire, feverish drenching, redness and swelling of the eyes, diarrhea and dysentery, jaundice with dampness and heat, carbuncle and furuncle (sores occurring mostly in the limbs or face, with a small shape and deep roots, as hard as nails), etc. It is also used in the treatment of diarrhea and jaundice, and is used in the treatment of diarrhea.
Scutellaria baicalensis is bitterly cold and injurious to the stomach, and should not be used by those who have a deficiency of coldness in the spleen and stomach (weak and cold spleen and stomach). If needed, please use it under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.