Can yellow medicine treat hyperthyroidism

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I believe a lot of people know what the disease is. This is hyperthyroidism, which we are familiar with at ordinary times. Suffering from this disease will make some changes in our appearance and cause confusion in our life and work. Many people say that Dioscorea can treat hyperthyroidism. Dioscorea is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Let's take a look at the efficacy of Dioscorea in treating hyperthyroidism?

Can yellow medicine treat hyperthyroidism

First, Dioscorea zingiberensis is the tuber of Dioscorea zingiberensis. It is bitter and pungent in taste, cool and toxic in nature. According to compendium of Materia Medica, it can cool blood, reduce fire, eliminate gall and detoxify. Its chemical components include Dioscorea zingiberensis a, B, C, D, e, Ji, Geng, Xin, iodine, tannin, sucrose, reducing sugar, starch, etc. 26 cases of hyperthyroidism were treated with huangyaoziliu extract in Fujian Provincial People's hospital. The symptoms of most patients were significantly improved, and the neck circumference and basal metabolism were reduced in varying degrees.

Second: the diet containing 2% ~ 10% xanthate had no effect on body weight and thyroid function (basal metabolism, thyroid weight and iodine content) of normal rats for 4 weeks, and xanthate had no effect on goiter (body weight, basal metabolic rate, thyroid weight and iodine content, serum and egg self binding iodine) caused by antithyroid drugs such as thiouracil and SULFAPYRIDINE. It has antagonism to mild goiter caused by 0.1% potassium thiocyanate, and has certain therapeutic effect on goiter caused by iodine deficiency food, which is manifested by the weight reduction of enlarged thyroid gland and the increase of bound iodine in gland tissue and serum protein. It can also improve spontaneous goiter in rats. The therapeutic effect of Dioscorea is related to the iodine contained in it.

Third: in recent years, many scholars in the treatment of hyperthyroidism also use single huangyaozi, or compound composed mainly of huangyaozi, the curative effect is fair. However, it is toxic. Animal experiments show that it has certain damage to the liver and kidney of mice, and the degree of damage is closely related to the dose and time of administration. The damage to liver tissue can be shown in a short time, and the damage to kidney tissue can only be shown in a long time. Its characteristics are anorexia, greasiness, nausea, vomiting and abnormal liver function, which are consistent with the symptoms of clinical patients. In order to avoid liver and kidney damage, most people advocate that the daily dosage of this drug should be controlled within 12g of the original drug.

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Through the above introduction, we know that xanthate is able to treat hyperthyroidism, according to the above method of treatment, the effect is very good, if you are hyperthyroidism patients, don't worry about your disease, you can try xanthate, compared with western medicine side effects will be smaller, and the effect is still very obvious.