Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum)

毒扁豆dú biǎn dòuDubiandou

Physostigma venenosum · Plant

Physostigma venenosum
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

The catalogue records no caution for this entry. That is not evidence that it is safe.

Indications

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

Diarrhea SyndromeSwelling Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit DetoxBenefit DiureticBenefit Spleen

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Physostigma venenosum 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 Detox0 records
  • Benefit Diuretic0 records
  • Benefit Spleen0 records
  • Diarrhea Syndrome0 records
  • Swelling Syndrome0 records