Crude drug sample data base
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Crude drug name | Market name | 葛根 |
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| Formal name | 葛根 | |
| Japanese name | かっこん, Kakkon | |
| Vernacular name | Gegen | |
| Latin name | Puerariae Radix (JP), Puerariae Lobatae Radix (CP) | |
| English name | Pueraria Root (JP), Kudzuvine Root (CP) | |
| Original plant name | Pueraria lobata Ohwi, (Kuzu) | |
| Family name | Leguminosae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | root |
| Production area information | People's Republic of China | |
| Collection information | Japan, Tokyo , Uchida Wakanyaku Co., Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 2016/07/22 | |
| Collector | Hirotoshi Fushimi | |
| TMPW No. | 31480 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Common name | 葛根, Gegen, Puerariae Radix (JP18), Puerariae Lobatae Radix (CP2020), Pueraria Root (JP18), Kudzuvine Root (CP2020) | |||||
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| Synonyms | 板葛根, 角葛根, 粉葛根 | |||||
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| Original plant name | Pueraria lobata Ohwi, (Kuzu) | |||||
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| Family name | Leguminosae | |||||
| Used part | root | |||||
| Quality for selection | Good Gegen is powder white and rich in amyloid. Neither brown nor fibrous one is good. Chinese Gegen is rich in amyloid and Japanese one is rich in fiber. (TN) | |||||
| Official compendium | JP XVIII, CP (2020 ed.) | |||||
| Clinical application | As a drug for diaphoresis, antifebrile and antispasmodic, gegen is applied for cough, fever, stiffness and pain of nape and back. It is the raw material for kuzudenpun (Jap. Name), or gegen starch. | |||||
| Medical system | Traditional Chinese medicine | |||||
| Drug effect in traditional medicine | Traditional classification | Diaphoretics with cold property | ||||
| Beneficial effect | [Property and Flavor] Cool; sweet and pungent. [Meridian Tropism] Spleen, stomach and lung meridians. [Actions] To release the flesh and reduce fever, engender fluid to quench thirst, promote eruption, upraise the middle qi to check diarrhea, unblock the meridian and activate collaterals, remove wine toxin. [Indications] External contraction with fever, headache, stiff and pain nape and neck, thirst, wasting-thirst, unerupted measles, heat dysentery, diarrhea, dizziness, headache, hemiplegia caused by wind-stroke, chest impediment, heart pain, wine toxin damaging the middle. | |||||
| Chemical constituent | Other aliphatic and related compounds (*C1): D-(+)-Pinitol Monosaccharides (*C1): D-Mannitol Polysaccharides (*C1): 澱粉 (starch polysaccharide) Isoflavones (*C1): Daidzin, Daidzein, Daidzein 4',7-diglucoside, Puerarin, Puerarin-7-xyloside, 4',6''-O-Diacetylpuerarin, Genistein, Formononetin, Kakkonein, Puerarol, Miroestrol Simple nitrogen containing compounds (*C1): Allantoin | |||||
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| Pharmacological effect | Antipyretic，hyperglycemic （water extract）．Spasmolytic （daidzein）． | |||||
| DNA sequence | Traditioal Medical & Parmaceutical Database. | |||||
| Classical reference (Chinese Herbal Classic "Zhenglei bencao") |  ※Click this image to see the actual image | |||||
| Disease | Fever, Headache, stiffness in the back, Anhidrosis, Thirst, Muddy and watery stool, Diarrhea, Measles | |||||
| Formulation | Kakkonto, Kakkon'oren'ogonto, Kakkonkahangeto, Kakkonkaryojutsubuto, Kakkonkokato, Kakkontokashin'isenkyuto, Keishikakakkonto, Saikatsugekito, Shichimibyakujutsuto, Shakuyakushimotsugekito, Shomakakkonto, Jinsoin, Jintanto, Seiishakato, Zenshibyakujutsusan, Chikuyoto, Tokinentsuto, Dokkatsukakkonto, Bakumondoinshi, Hontonto, Hontonto, Hontonto, Hontonbukuryoto, Maogomito | |||||
| References | JP18: The 18th edition of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia. CP2020: Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China 2020 edi. C1) The Encyclopedia of Wakan-Yaku with Color Pictures Vol. I, pp 163-164. | |||||
| Remarks | In China, not only Pueraria thomsonii Benth. but P. pseudo-hirsuta Tang et Wang may be found in the market. Taiwanese one is the root of P. montana (Lour.) Merrill. (JP. name: Taiwankuzu). The Japanese "kuzudenpun", which is obtained from its root, is the important ingredient for making "kuzuyu" (soup of starch kudzu). | |||||
| Last renewal date | 2021/09/27 | |||||
