Huanglian Qingfei Detoxification

Huanglian more clustered into clusters, often bent, shaped like chicken claws, so called "Chicken Claw Company."

The surface is grayish yellow or yellowish brown, rough, with irregular detail bulges, roots and roots residues, and some internodes have smooth surfaces such as stems.

Upper multiple residual brown scales, often with residual stems or petioles at the top. Hard, untidy section, orange red or dark brown skin, bright yellow or orange wood, radially arranged, some hollow medulla.

Huanglian has bacteriostatic effect

Antimicrobial and antigen-insect action one bacterium: In vitro test showed that Huanglian or berberine had strong bacteriostatic effect on hemolytic streptococcus, meningococcal, Pneumococcus pneumoniae, Vibrio cholerae, Bacillus anthracis and Staphylococcus aureus, and inhibited bacillus dysentery, diphtheria bacillus, Bacillus subtilis and green Streptococcus. Bacillus pneumoniae, Bacillus pertussis, Bacillus plague, brucellosis, tetanus bacillus, Clostridium perfringens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and so on are also effective, the effect on Bacillus mutans, Escherichia coli, typhoid bacillus is poor, for songnei dysentery bacillus, paratyphoid bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has no effect.