Ilex pubescens has pharmacological effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation, dredging veins, dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and lowering blood pressure.

For coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction and angiitis obliterans; Topical medicine for treating burn, scald and chilblain.

Ilex pubescens is the root of Ilex pubescens, which is harvested in summer and autumn, sliced and dried. The effective component of root is flavonoid glycoside. It also contains phenols, sterols, tannins, triterpenoids, amino acids, sugars and so on. It is slightly toxic and should not be taken in large quantities for a long time.

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Ilex pubescens is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a height of 3-4 meters; Branchlets are slender, nearly quadrangular, gray-brown, densely setose, with longitudinal ridges, without lenticels, leaf scars slightly raised, nearly crescent-shaped; Terminal buds are usually stunted or missing.

Distributed in China, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Hainan, Hongkong, Guangxi and Guizhou. It grows in evergreen broad-leaved forests on hillsides at an altitude of (60-) 100- 1000 meters or on forest margins, bushes, streams and roadsides.

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