Grass branching mycobacterium (Mycobacterium phlei)

草分枝杆菌cǎo fēn zhī gān jūnCaofenzhiganjun

Mycobacterium phlei · Plant

Mycobacterium, standing in for Mycobacterium phlei
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

Bacterium, not a plant; may cause allergic reactions or infections; avoid internal use.

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Grass branching mycobacterium does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

Benefit Immune

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Mycobacterium phlei 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.