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Fang Feng benefits Fang Feng root was listed in the highest grade herbs by Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic. As mentioned previously, it got its name because of its excellent medicinal uses for exterior syndrome by expelling and preventing wind pathogen. And now let’s take a look what the modern pharmacology said about this miraculous herb. Modern pharmacological actions 1. Antipyretic effects. Experimental observation found that its decoction, half hour after intragastric administration, showed antipyretic effect to febrile rabbits induced by intravenous injection with typhoid mixed vaccine. And the effect could last up to 2 hours; 2. Antishock. Experiment indicated that mice receive a few times of gavage with its decoction showed certain counteraction to shock; 3. Antibiosis. Its water extract has some antibacterial effect to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, and Shigella. In vitro it also inhibits Microsporon lanosum; 4. Analgesia. In the experiment of mice given a gavage of its ethanol extract, it showed that its ethanol extract can significantly improve pain threshold and so did its subcutaneous injection. information from chineseherbshealing