Polygonum Cuspidatum has been studied across 19 research domains including ⏳ Longevity & Aging, 🔬 Inflammation, 🔬 Oncology, 🔥 Metabolic, 🧘 Stress & Anxiety. The primary research focus is ⏳ Longevity & Aging with 25% of studies addressing this area.
Known as huzhang / 虎杖 in Ayurveda. Karma (actions): Promotes the flow of menstruation, Breaks up retained blood and concretions and bindings, Steeped in wine and taken, governs sudden conglomeration, Wind lodged in the joints and blood stasis, decocted as juice made into wine and taken, Treats great heat and vexation and agitation, Stops thirst, Promotes urination, Suppresses all heat toxins, Treats postpartum blood dizziness, Treats malign blood failing to descend, Treats distention and fullness of the heart and abdomen, Expels pus, Governs sores, boils, and welling-abscess toxins, Treats contusion and injury with blood stasis, Breaks up wind toxin and bound qi, Burned to ash and applied, treats all malign sores, Dried and ground, refined with honey into pills, taken with aged rice decoction, treats intestinal hemorrhoids with bleeding, Ground to powder and taken with wine, treats postpartum blood stasis with blood pain, and injury from falls with loss of consciousness and oppression.
The following compounds share molecular targets with Polygonum Cuspidatum, based on binding affinity data from BindingDB and ChEMBL. Sorted by shared target overlap.
This evidence profile for Polygonum Cuspidatum is generated deterministically from 200 PubMed-indexed studies. All data is corpus-verified with Merkle proofs. BiohacksAI does not provide medical advice. Always consult a healthcare professional before starting any supplement regimen.
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