[Experimental anti-arrhythmic effects of zhigancao (prepared licorice) injection].
Zhigancao injection can antagonise the arrhythmia induced by chloroform, adrenaline, aconitine, strophanthine K and barium chloride, slow the heart rate, prolong P-R and Q-T intervals and antagonise the positive chronotropic response induced by isoprenaline. The LD50 of zhigancao injection is 41.2g/kg in nice by intraperitoneal.
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Longhua Hospital, Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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