Dark yellow pig dung bean (Crotalaria obscura)

暗黄猪屎豆àn huáng zhū shǐ dòuAnhuangzhushidou

Crotalaria obscura · Plant

Crotalaria, standing in for Crotalaria obscura
This photo shows Crotalaria, not Crotalaria obscura: Wikimedia Commons has no freely licensed photo of it. Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

Contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; potential liver toxicity.

Indications

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

Inflammation SyndromeParasite Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit AntimicrobialBenefit RespiratoryBenefit Skin

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Crotalaria obscura 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 Antimicrobial0 records
  • Benefit Respiratory0 records
  • Benefit Skin0 records
  • Inflammation Syndrome0 records
  • Parasite Syndrome0 records