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Botanical Basic Data of isatis indigotica.:Isatis indigotica Fort.L

Scientific Name: Folium Isatidis,Isatis indigotica Fort.L
Common Name: Woad, Chinese,OtherWoad, Chinese
Property:Bitter in flavour very cold in pro- perty, acting on the heart, lung and stomach channels.
Effects:Clear- ing away heat, de- toxicating, removing pathogenic heat form the blood, and curing skin erupions.

Botanical Basic Data of isatis indigotica.
Notes and Explain of isatis indigotica.
What it is Isatis indigotica,Application and Uses of isatis indigotica.
Differentiation of isatis indigotica.

Notes and Explain of isatis indigotica.:

Notes and Explain of isatis indigotica:
Notes: Chinese herb considered antibacterial, antivirial, and anti-inflammatory. Leaves and roots are effective againist flu, encephalitis, measles, hepatitis, and mumps.
(Da Qing) Contains indican and isatin B, both of which can be converted to indigo. Considered antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory. Leaves and roots are effective against flu, encephalitis, measles, hepatitis, and mumps.
(Chem.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.
Note: Commercial indigo contains the essential coloring principle indigo blue or indigotine, with several other dyes; as, indigo red, indigo brown, etc., and various impurities. Indigo is insoluble in ordinary reagents, with the exception of strong sulphuric acid.

What it is Isatis indigotica,Application and Uses of isatis indigotica:

This herb is the leaf of Isatis indigotica Fort. (family Cruciferae), produced mainly in the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian and Guangxi. Isatis leaves are collected in summer and autumn, dried in sunlight, and used unprepared or fresh.
Used for:
1. Epidemic febrile diseases with the invasion of the blood by heat, mani- fested as high fever, restlessness, maculas and eruptions, un- consciousness, de- lirium and so on. It is often used with rhinoceros horn and capejasminne fruit, as in Decoction of Rhinoceros Horn and isatis leaf (Xijiao Daqing Tang). In cases of affection by exopathogenic wind- heat, of epidemic febrile diseases at the early stage, manifested as fever, headache and thirst, it is used with honeysuckle flower and arctium fruit.
2. Erysipelas, canker sores, and swollen and sore throat due to exu- berant toxic heat in the blood. It is often used with honey suckleflower and scrophularia root.
Dosage and administration: 10- 15g, decocted in water for an oral dose.

Differentiation of isatis indigotica::

Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.
{Indigo berry} (Bot.), the fruit of the West Indian shrub {Randia aculeata}, used as a blue dye.
{Indigo bird} (Zo["o]l.), a small North American finch ({Cyanospiza cyanea}). The male is indigo blue in color. Called also {indigo bunting}.
{Indigo blue}.
(a) The essential coloring material of commercial indigo,from which it is obtained as a dark blue earthy powder,with a reddish luster, {C16H10N2O2}, which may be crystallized by sublimation. Indigo blue is also made from artificial amido cinnamic acid, and from artificial isatine; and these methods are of great commercial importance. Called also {indigotin}.
(b) A dark, dull blue color like the indigo of commerce.
{Indigo brown} (Chem.), a brown resinous substance found in crude indigo.
{Indigo copper} (Min.), covellite.
{Indigo green}, a green obtained from indigo.
{Indigo plant} (Bot.), a leguminous plant of several species (genus {Indigofera}), from which indigo is prepared. The different varieties are natives of Asia, Africa, and America. Several species are cultivated, of which the most important are the {I. tinctoria}, or common indigo plant, the {I. Anil}, a larger species, and the {I. disperma}.
{Indigo purple}, a purple obtained from indigo.
{Indigo red}, a dyestuff, isomeric with indigo blue, obtained from crude indigo as a dark brown amorphous powder.
{Indigo snake} (Zo["o]l.), the gopher snake.
{Indigo white}, a white crystalline powder obtained by reduction from indigo blue, and by oxidation easily changed back to it; -- called also {indigogen}.
{Indigo yellow}, a substance obtained from indigo.

Scientific References:

1.Indigowoad Leaf.Isatis Leaf.

Claims & Warning:

Claims: Information this web site presented is meant for Nutritional Benefit and as an educational starting point only, for use in maintenance and promotion good health in cooperation with a common knowledge base reference...Furthermore,it based solely on the traditional and historic use or legend of a given herb from the garden of Adonis. Although every effort has been made to ensure its accurate, please note that some info may be outdated by more recent scientific developments......

Pharmakon Warning: The order of knowledge is not the transparent order of forms and ideas,as one might be tempted retrospectively to interpret it; it is the antidote....(Dissemination,Plato's Pharmacy,II.The Ingredients:Phantasms,Festivals,and Paints;138cf. Jacques Derrida.).

And as it happens,the technique of imitation,along with the production of the simulacrum,has always been in Plato's eyes manifestly magical,thaumaturgical:......and the same things appear bent and straight to those who view them in water and out,or concave and convex,owing to similar errors of vision about colors, and there is obviously every confusion of this sort in our souls.And so scene painting (skiagraphia) in its exploitation of this weakness of four nature falls nothing short of witchcraft (thaumatopoia), and so do jugglery and many other such contrivances.(Republic X,602c-d;cf.also 607c).