Small Red Garlic (Eleutherine plicata)

小红蒜xiǎo hóng suànXiaohongsuan

Eleutherine plicata · Plant

Eleutherine, standing in for Eleutherine plicata
This photo shows Eleutherine, not Eleutherine plicata: Wikimedia Commons has no freely licensed photo of it. Photo: Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, 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 Small Red Garlic for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Hypertension SyndromeInflammation Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit AntioxidantBenefit DigestiveBenefit HeartBenefit Immune AntimicrobialBenefit Respiratory

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Eleutherine plicata 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 Antioxidant2 records
  • Benefit Digestive0 records
  • Benefit Heart0 records
  • Benefit Immune Antimicrobial1 records
  • Benefit Respiratory0 records
  • Hypertension Syndrome0 records
  • Inflammation Syndrome1 records