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Scullcap is also spelled Skullcap. Scullcap is found in Zyflamend.

Zyflamend with scullcap, scutellaria balcalensis









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Scullcap Research Update
[The Baikal scullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi)--a potential source of new drugs]
Ceska Slov Farm. 2002 Nov;51(6):277-83.
The scullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi) is a medicinal plant of traditional Chinese herb medicine and the drug--Scutellariae radix--is, because of its antioxidant, antiviral, antibacterial, antiinflammatory, antiallergic, and sedative properties, the subject of intensive development. This paper reports the results of pharmacological-toxicological studies of this drug and its flavonids approximately from the year 1990 till the year 2001. The results confirm the validity of traditional use and at the same time indicate that some flavonoids have more utilizable therapeutic effects. Mainly baicalein seems to be a prospective medicine for the treatment of some kinds of cancer.

Pneumonitis induced by ou-gon (scullcap).
Intern Med. 2001 Aug;40(8):764-8.
Department of Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo.
A 53-year-old Japanese man with recurrent interstitial pneumonia was referred to us. The patient had taken a traditional herb medicine, otsu-ji-to, before the onset of pneumonia. A provocation test for each herbal ingredient contained in otsu-ji-to revealed that the pneumonitis had been induced by ou-gon (scullcap). Lymphocytosis with the CD8+ T-cell subset predominance was found in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and lymphocytic alveolitis was noted in the transbronchial lung biopsy specimen after the provocation test. Ou-gon, or scullcap, should be included in the list of drugs with definite causal association with pneumonitis.