Beautiful Inula (Inula japonica)

美丽旋覆花měi lì xuán fù huāMeilixuanfuhua

Inula japonica · Plant

Inula, standing in for Inula japonica
This photo shows Inula, not Inula japonica: Wikimedia Commons has no freely licensed photo of it. Photo: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

May cause allergic reactions in those sensitive to the daisy family; may increase mucus production; avoid during pregnancy.

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Beautiful Inula for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Inflammation Syndrome

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Beautiful Inula does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

Benefit AntimicrobialBenefit AntispasmodicBenefit DigestiveBenefit Respiratory Cough

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Inula japonica 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.