Chinese Skullcap Certified Organic

Quality

Organic Skullcap is thick, long, compact, hard texture and yellow,  without bark.

Attribution in TCM

Bitter in taste, cold in nature. The lung, gallbladder, stomach and large intestine meridians arez in attribution.

Actions

Clear heat, dry damp, purge fire, remove toxic substance, cool the blood, relieve bleeding, and prevent miscarriage.

Usage and Dosage

3-10g for decoction or prepared as powder or pill. The crude sample is used for clearing heat, the stir-fried one for preventing abortion, the charred one for hemostasis, and the stir-fired (with rice wine) one for clearing upper-jiao heat.

Precaution

It is a bitter-cold agent liable to damage the stomach, so skullcap root is not suitable for the cases with anorexia and loose stool due to deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach.

Active Ingredients of skullcap root

Organic skullcap root contains flavonoids, baicalin, baicalein, wogonoside, wogonin, skullcapflavoneⅠ, skullcapflavoneⅡ.

Processing Methods and Functions of Organic Skullcap Root

1. Raw Radix Scutellaria Baicalensis 

Method: Remove impurities, clean, steam drugs until the container full of vapour to make them soft and easy to be cut into small pieces.

Function：Make enzymes inactive and keep effective.

2. Stir-frying Radix Scutellaria Baicalensis with Wine

Method: Put drugs and wine together, mix them thoroughly. Add drugs into a preheated pot after the wine is absorbed thoroughly by drugs, then fry quickly with mild fire until drugs show a coke brown color and the natural flavor of adjuvant and drugs could be smelled, take drugs out and make them cool.

Function: It can conduct to upper rnergizer, clear away pathogenic fire. Moderate the nature of bitterness and coldness, and avoid damaging splenic yang. For example, it can be used in Huangqin Xiefei Decoction which is suitable for conjunctival congestion.

3. Charring Radix Scutellaria Baicalensis 

Method: Preheat the pot with high temperature, put drugs in and fry quickly until the drugs’ outer color transforms to a coke brown color, and inner color turns yellow. Then take drugs out.

Function: It can moderate the bitter and cold nature and strengthen the effect of hemostasis by clearing away heat. Skullcap root is used for metrorrhagia, metrostaxis and vomit blood.

Description

1. Located in the Northeast China, one of the main producing areas, Boherbs has established its own cultivating source to make strict control of the quality and delicate processing. 

2. Baical Skullcap Root were collected in spring and autumn, fresh roots are only dug out in its most appropriate time when the amount of beneficial herbal components is highest. And when the skullcap roots are half-dried, remove from the peels and dry quickly under the sun or by air. The whole procedure is delicately made to avoid strong sun and water to influence its good quality. Therefore, what Boherbs is providing are always thick roots, fracture dark yellow, filled enough without hollow and 100% organic standard with pesticides free.

Scope of Business

Boherbs Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer and wholesaler for herbs & herbal powder (organic certified & conventional standard), plant extract, food ingredients, spices and herbal tea.

We would like to provide raw materials for pharmaceutical factory, scientific research institutions, and health products company and so on.

We are capable to provide One-step solution for contract manufacturing like capsules, teabags, tablets etc. 

Sample orders are available to do the tests.