黄芩是中医临床最常用的清热解毒药,能泻上焦肺火,除肠中湿热。药用部位为其干燥的根,其中除含有β—谷甾醇外,尚含有较多量的黄酮类似物,主要为黄芩甙、黄芩甙元、汉黄芩甙、汉黄芩甙元和黄芩新素。由于黄芩根中还含有黄芩酶,它能促使黄芩甙和汉黄芩甙水解而生成甙元——黄芩甙元 Jaundice is the most commonly used heat-clearing and detoxifying drug in the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine. It can detoxify coke-lung fire and remove heat in the intestines. The medicinal site is its dry root, which contains a large amount of flavonoid analogs other than β-sitosterol, and is mainly composed of astragalus, astragalus, huangqi, astragalus and astragaloside. Because Astragalus root also contains astragalosidease, it can promote the hydrolysis of Astragalus and Astragalus simplicans to produce Aglycon