Scutellaria extract

1. Anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic reaction: Baicalin and baicalein in Scutellaria extract can relieve allergic contraction of guinea pig trachea in vitro and allergic asthma of whole animals, and can inhibit the release of allergic mediators, thereby producing anti-allergic reaction. It can be used clinically to treat acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, sinusitis and other diseases, and also has a certain therapeutic effect on pneumonia, cholecystitis and other diseases.

2. Antibacterial effect: Scutellaria extract has a broad antibacterial spectrum, and has inhibitory effects on Shigella dysenteriae, diphtheria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pneumococcus and meningococcus, and can be used to treat upper respiratory tract infection, bacillary dysentery, acute gastroenteritis and other diseases. In addition, Scutellaria extract can also inhibit a variety of skin pathogenic fungi and kill Leptospira.

3. Antipyretic effect: Scutellaria baicalensis extract has an antipyretic effect on vaccine-induced fever in rabbits. Although the antipyretic effect is not obvious when taken orally or injected intramuscularly in large doses, intravenous injection can still produce a slight antipyretic effect.