Botanical info and medicinal uses of Ecliptae Herba.
Article Content:
- .Basic Botanical info and Identification of Ecliptae Herba.
- .Eclipta prostrata Physical Characteristics.
- .Cultivation details of Eclipta prostrata.
- .Eclipta prostrata Phytochemicals and Constituents.
- .Medicinal Uses of Ecliptae Herba.
- .Traditional Functions and Notes of Ecliptae Herba.
- .Pharmacological studies:Ecliptae Herba.
- .Eclipta prostrata Quality control including chromatographic fingerprint profiling.
- .Suggestions and Administrations of Eclipta prostrata.
- .Research Update:Eclipta prostrata.
Suggestions and Administrations of Eclipta prostrata.
Dosages:Juice, powder
3 ~ 6 ml of the drug in juice form
12 ~ 36 g of the drug in powder form for decoction
Safety data:
The 50% ethanolic extract of the whole plant, administered intraperitoneally in mice, showed a maximum tolerated dose of 1 g/kg (Khin et al., 1978). Hidroalcoholic extract (1: 1) of the dried aerial parts, administered orally at dose of 100 mg/kg, did not show inhibition of implantation and embryotoxic effect in rats female (Mishra et al., 1979). The 95% ethanolic extract of the dried aerial parts, administered orally, intragastrically and intraperitoneally in mice did not present general toxic effect to 2 g/kg dose (Sharma et al., 1991 ; Zhang, 1990).
Contraindications:
The American Herbal Products Association established that it can be safely consumed but it does not have to be taken by patients with acute or chronic diarrhea, or patients who have disorders of spleen (McGuffin et al., 1997).Its effects on lactating children is not documented, and thus it is not recommended to be used during breast-feeding.
Reference:
1.Botanical info and medicinal uses of Ecliptae Herba.




