Summer Snow Flake Lotus (Leucojum aestivum)

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Leucojum aestivum · Plant

Leucojum aestivum
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

Contains alkaloids including lycorine; potentially toxic if ingested; may cause digestive upset; avoid during pregnancy.

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Summer Snow Flake Lotus for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Alzheimer's Syndrome

TCM actions

What the catalogue says Summer Snow Flake Lotus does in the terms of Chinese medicine theory. These describe the herb, not a condition.

Benefit CognitiveBenefit Respiratory

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Leucojum aestivum 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.