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Barberry herb has been used in the Middle East, Europe, China, and India for healing purposes. For medicinal purposes, the barberry plant has been studied in terms of its fruit and also in terms of its root. When evaluating research studies with barberry, it is important to note the distinction between fruit extract and root extract. Often barberry is mentioned without making a distinction between the fruit and the root. The barberry root has a yellow color which indicates the content of berberine. Berberine is isolated as a main alkaloid from the roots and bark of Berberis vulgaris.
Function:
1) Used for the damp-heat syndrome of the large intestine manifested as diarrhea, dysentery, and tenesmus.
2) Used for acute febrile diseases with excessive pathogenic fire and heat-manifested fever, dysphoria, unconsciousness, and delirium.
3) Used for suppurative infections on the body surface, such as sores, carbuncles, furuncles and boils, septicemia induced by furunculosis, swellings, and pain in the ears and eyes, canker sores in the mouth, exudative skin infections and pruritus.
Application:
1) Applied in the pharmaceutical and health product field.
2) Applied in the pharmaceutical field, it is usually added to a capsule or tablet to treat vascular disease.