What's the role of Huang Lian?

Coptis chinensis has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, clearing away heat and eliminating dampness, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, and protecting liver and gallbladder. Compatibility with other auxiliary drugs in traditional Chinese medicine is suitable for both damp-heat syndrome and fiery syndrome. After eating Rhizoma Coptidis, berberine, the main component of Rhizoma Coptidis, does not enter the blood through gastrointestinal mucosa, but stays in the gastrointestinal tract. Due to the bitter taste, berberine will stay in the gastrointestinal tract for a long time, and the therapeutic effect on digestive tract inflammation is obvious.

Compendium of Materia Medica clearly records that Rhizoma Coptidis purges fire for treating diseases. Patients with chronic gastrointestinal diseases and chronic hepatobiliary diseases have digestive tract symptoms. Taking a small amount of coptis chinensis for a long time can really benefit the liver and gallbladder, increase the appetite of patients with spleen and stomach weakness, and thicken the stool, that is, benefit the liver and gallbladder and increase the stomach.

1, clearing away heat and purging fire: Coptis chinensis is a Chinese herbal medicine blindly bitter and cold. For stomach fire, toothache, bitter taste, halitosis, red face, dry stool and yellow tongue coating caused by excess heat, Coptis chinensis is a suitable Chinese herbal medicine for purging fire.

2. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory: Pharmacological research shows that berberine contained in Rhizoma Coptidis has inhibitory effect on both Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria, and it is a broad-spectrum antibacterial Chinese herbal medicine, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on diseases such as dysentery caused by daily bacteria.

3. Protecting liver and benefiting gallbladder: Coptis chinensis is also a Chinese herbal medicine for protecting liver and benefiting gallbladder, which can help hepatitis patients reduce the activity of transaminase and play a therapeutic role.