Table 7.
Chinese crude drugs containing toxic ingredients and their functions
| Name of drug materials | Main ingredients | Main function |
|---|---|---|
| Baijiang Dan | Mercuric Chloride, mercurous chloride | Cure carbuncle, detoxification |
| Cantharis | Cantharidin, formic resin, pigment | Detoxification, relieving blood stasis, vesiculation, cold moxibustion |
| Toad Venom | Cinobufotoxin, Cinobufotalin, Cinobufotalidin, Arginine | Detoxification, detumescence, relieving pain |
| Hydrargyri Oxydum Rubrum | Mercuric Oxide | Detoxification, removing necrotic tissue, promoting tissue regeneration |
| Huechys Sanguinea | Cantharidin | Detoxification, dispersing blood stasis, breaking to accumulate |
| Yellow Azalea Flower | Andromedotoxin, ericolin | Expelling wind, removing dampness, relieving pain |
| Arsenic Sublimate (Arsenicum Sublimatum, Diarsenic Trioxide) | Arsenous oxide | expelling intestinal parasites |
| Cantharis Sinica | Cantharidin | Detoxification, dispersing blood stasis |
| Calomelas | Mercurous chloride | Detoxification, removing necrotic tissue |
| Unprocessed Croton Fruit | Croton oil, protein(including crotin), alkaloid crotonoside | Purgation, dispelling water, detoxification |
| Unprocessed Giant Typhonium Rhizome | Organic acid, saponin, b-sitosterol | Clearing wind phlegm, antispasmodic |
| Unprocessed Pinellia Tuber | Triterpene alcohol, b-sitosterol, alkaloid | Depriving the evil wetness, dissipating phlegm, antiemetic |
| Unprocessed Kusnezoff Monkshood Root (Caowu) | Aconitine, isoaconitine, mesaconitine, hypaconitine | Relieving beriberoid disease, relieving rheumatic, relieving pain |
| Unprocessed Common Monkshood Mother Root | Aconitine, mesaconitine | Relieving beriberoid disease, relieving rheumatic, relieving pain |
| Unprocessed AconiteRoot | Including 6 kinds of crystallinic alkaloids, many of which are hypaconitine | Reviving yang, relieving pain, dispelling cold |
| Unprocessed Gansui Root | Triterpenoid, euphorbon | Decreasing the retention of fluid in the body, reduce accumulation, facilitating bowel movement |
| Unprocessed Euphorbia Fishericana | Triterpenoid, euphorbon | Removing stasis, expelling intestinal parasites |
| Unprocessed nux vomica | Strychnine, brucine | Smoothing veins and arteries, relieving pain, detumescence |
| Unprocessed Rhizoma Arisaematis | Triterpenoid saponin, benzoic acid | Spasmolysis, detumescence |
| Unprocessed Caper Euphorbia Seed | Leptochloa chinensis sterol, Daphnetin | Detumescence through inducing diuresis, removing stasis |
| Unprocessed Gamboge | Morellin | detumescence, detoxification, stopping bleeding |
| Unprocessed Henbane Seed | Hyoscyamine, scopolamine, atropine | Anti-epilepsy, relieving pain, spasmolysis |
| Mercury | Mercury | Expelling intestinal parasites, detoxification |
| Realgar | Yellow arsenic | Detoxification, deprive the evil wetness, expelling intestinal parasites |
| Shortstalk monkshood root | Aconitine, isoaconitine | Relieving beriberoid disease, relieving pain |
| Datura Flower | Hyoscyamine, scopolamine | Smoothing asthma, relieving a cough, relieving pain |