Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | 銀柴胡 |
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| Formal name | 銀柴胡 | |
| Japanese name | ぎんさいこ, Ginsaiko | |
| Vernacular name | Yinchaihu | |
| Latin name | Stellariae Radix (CP), Stellariae Dichotomae Radix | |
| English name | Starwort Root (CP) | |
| Original plant name | Stellaria dichotoma L. var. lanceolata Bunge | |
| Family name | Caryophyllaceae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | root |
| Collection information | Hong Kong, Wing Tai Hong Medicine Co.,Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 1974/12/25 | |
| TMPW No. | 304 | |
Scientific information data base
| Common name | 銀柴胡, Yinchaihu, Stellariae Radix (CP2020), Starwort Root (CP2020) | |||||
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| Original plant name | Stellaria dichotoma Linn. var. lanceolata Bunge | |||||
| Family name | Caryophyllaceae | |||||
| Used part | root | |||||
| Official compendium | CP (2020 ed.) | |||||
| Clinical application | As an antifebrile and tonic applied for fever of consumptive disease, children's convulsive fit, and fever of habitus scrofulous, etc. | |||||
| Medical system | Traditional Chinese medicine | |||||
| Drug effect in traditional medicine | Traditional classification | Drugs for fever of deficiency type | ||||
| Beneficial effect | [Property and Flavor] Mild cold; sweet. [Meridian Tropism] Liver and stomach meridians. [Actions] To clear deficiency heat, relieve malnutrition fever. [Indications] Yin deficiency fever, steaming bone and consumptive fever, infantile malnutrition fever. | |||||
| Chemical constituent | Flavonoids S. dichotoma (*C1): 6,8-Di-C-galactopyranosylapigenin, 6-C-Galactopyranosylisoscutellarin | |||||
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| Pharmacological effect | Not exactly known. | |||||
| Disease | Night sweats, Fever due to child malnutrition | |||||
| Formulation | rarely used in formula | |||||
| References | CP2020: Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China 2020 edi. C1)Yakugaku Zasshi，102, 292-294 (1982). C2)The Encyclopedia of Wakan-Yaku with Color Pictures Vol. I, pp 124-125. | |||||
| Remarks | All "Sanginsaiko" (山銀柴胡) and "Doginsaiko" (土銀柴胡) seen in the market belong to Caryophyllaceae, but the original plant is different depending on the production area. They are Arenaria juncea Bieb. (Inner Mongolia, Liaoning Prov.), Silene fortunei Vis. (Gansu, Shanxi Prov.), S. jenisensis Willd. (Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei Prov.), Gypsophila oldhamiana Miq.(Gansu, Shanxi, Henan Prov.), etc. These were once distributed in the Japanese market. | |||||
| Last renewal date | 2021/09/28 | |||||
