Evergreen gelsemium (Gelsemium sempervirens)

常绿钩吻cháng lǜ gōu wěnChanglugouwen

Gelsemium sempervirens · Plant

Gelsemium sempervirens
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

Highly toxic; contains strychnine-like alkaloids; can cause respiratory paralysis and death; avoid all internal use.

Indications

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

Neuralgia PainAnxiety SyndromeInflammation Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit Calming

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Gelsemium sempervirens 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.