False indigo (Crotalaria ferruginea)

假地蓝jiǎ dì lánJiadilan

Crotalaria ferruginea · Plant

Crotalaria, standing in for Crotalaria ferruginea
This photo shows Crotalaria, not Crotalaria ferruginea: 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

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

Indications

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

Inflammation Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit AntimicrobialBenefit ImmuneBenefit LiverBenefit Skin

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Crotalaria ferruginea 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 Immune0 records
  • Benefit Liver1 records
  • Benefit Skin0 records
  • Inflammation Syndrome1 records