Description
Latin Name: Vernonia cinerea (L). Less
Specification: 10:1
Appearance: Brown Yellow powder
Function:
1. It has the functions of dissipating wind, cooling blood, detoxifying and soothing.
2. Used for fever, cough, dysentery, jaundice hepatitis, neurasthenia;
3. External use for the treatment of large swelling, snake bite.
History:
It was mentioned in Sanskrit writings as being present in northern, western and southern India. In the Nighantus it was described as
cold, sweet and astringent.
Description About Vernonia Cinerea Extract:
The stem is slender, grooved and ribbed. The leaves are variable in shape, broadly elliptic or lanceolate, membranous or rather coriaceous. The flowers are pinkish and purple,in minute
heads in rounded or flat-topped corymbs. The achenes are oblong, terete, & slightly narrowed at the base.
Vernonia Cinerea Extract has the effect of dispersing wind and dissipating heat, cooling blood and detoxicating, and tranquilizing the nerves.
Vernonia Cinerea Extract has been widely used in traditional medicines for various diseases and shown to aid in smoking abstinence and has anticancer properties.