Cautions
May interact with cardiac medications; caution with heart conditions; may lower blood pressure; avoid during pregnancy.
Indications
What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Arjuna for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.
Hypertension SyndromeInflammation Syndrome
TCM actions
What the catalogue says Arjuna does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.
Benefit AntioxidantBenefit HeartBenefit Liver
In the literature
PubMed records whose title or abstract names Terminalia arjuna and the indication, and how many of those are indexed as studies in people. A record names the two together; it does not show that one treats the other, and most are laboratory or animal work.
- Benefit Antioxidant115 records, 31 in people
- Benefit Heart105 records, 35 in people
- Benefit Liver34 records, 10 in people
- Hypertension Syndrome14 records, 6 in people
- Inflammation Syndrome36 records, 15 in people
