Yellow broom ligularia (Ligularia virgaurea)

黄帚橐吾huáng zhǒu tuó wúHuangzhoutuowu

Ligularia virgaurea · Plant

Ligularia, standing in for Ligularia virgaurea
This photo shows Ligularia, not Ligularia virgaurea: Wikimedia Commons has no freely licensed photo of it. Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Indications
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With studies in people

Cautions

Limited safety data; potentially contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; avoid during pregnancy and with liver disease.

Indications

What AcuiQ’s herb catalogue lists Yellow broom ligularia for. The list carries no source and is an index, not a prescription.

Inflammation SyndromeJaundice Syndrome

TCM actions

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

Benefit AntimicrobialBenefit LiverBenefit Respiratory

In the literature

PubMed records whose title or abstract names Ligularia virgaurea 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 Antimicrobial0 records
  • Benefit Liver0 records
  • Benefit Respiratory0 records
  • Inflammation Syndrome0 records
  • Jaundice Syndrome0 records