Red-calyx Chicken Blood Vine (Spatholobus suberectus)

红萼鸡血藤hóng è jī xuè téngHongejixueteng

Spatholobus suberectus · Plant

Erythrininae, standing in for Spatholobus suberectus
This photo shows Erythrininae, not Spatholobus suberectus: Wikimedia Commons has no freely licensed photo of it. Photo: J.M.Garg, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

May increase bleeding risk; avoid with blood-thinning medications; may lower blood glucose; avoid during pregnancy.

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Red-calyx Chicken Blood Vine for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Joint PainInflammation SyndromeWind-damp Syndrome

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Red-calyx Chicken Blood Vine does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

Benefit AntioxidantBenefit Circulation

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Spatholobus suberectus 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.