Horehound (Marrubium vulgare)

欧夏至草ōu xià zhì cǎoOuxiazhicao

Marrubium vulgare · Plant

Marrubium vulgare
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 Horehound for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Depression SyndromeInflammation Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit AntimicrobialBenefit AntiviralBenefit CalmingBenefit Skin Wounds

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Marrubium vulgare 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.