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Crude drug name	Market name	沙参
	Formal name	沙参
	Japanese name	しゃじん, Shajin
	Vernacular name	Shashen
	Latin name	Adenophorae Radix (JP), (CP)
	English name	Adenophora Root (JP), Fourleaf Ladybell Root (CP)
Original plant name		Adenophora sp.
Family name		Campanulaceae
Used part	Classification	Plant origin
Used part	Sub classification	root
Collection information		Japan, Osaka Pref., Tochimoto Tenkaido Co., Ltd.
Collection date		1988/09/22
TMPW No.		9848

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Collection information

Japan,Osaka Pref.

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Scientific information data base

Common name

沙参, Shashen, Adenophorae Radix (Non-JPS2022, CP2020), Adenophora Root (Non-JPS2022), Fourleaf Ladybell Root (CP2020)

Synonyms

南沙参

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Original plant name

Adenophora tetraphylla Fischer, Adenophora stricta Miquel¹, Adenophora hunanensis Nannfeldt or Adenophora triphylla A. De Candolle, (Marubanoninjin¹)

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Family name

Campanulaceae

Used part

root

Quality for selection

Good Shashen is enlarged and corn shaped. The internal is dense and white. (TN)

Official compendium

Non-JPS (2022), CP (2020 ed.)

Clinical application

As an antitussive, expectorant and tonic, shashen is applied for invalid's chronic cough, stridor, phthisis and oliguria.

Medical system

Traditional Chinese medicine

Drug effect in
traditional medicine

Traditional
classification

Drugs for replenishing Yin-vital essence

Beneficial effect

[Property and Flavor] Mild cold; sweet.
[Meridian Tropism] Lung and stomach meridians.
[Actions] To nourish yin, clear heat, boost the stomach, engender fluid, resolve phlegm, and tonify qi.
[Indications] Lung heat and dry cough, cough caused by yin consumptive disease, dry cough with greasy phlegm, stomach yin deficiency, reduced food intake, vomiting, deficiency of qi and yin, heat vexation and dry mouth.

Chemical constituent

Triterpenoids
A. stricta subsp. sessilifolia (*C1):
Sessilifolic acid 3-O isovalerate, Lupenone, 24-Methylene cycloartanol

Sterols
A. stricta subsp. sessilifolia (*C1):
beta-Sitosteryl pentadecanoate, beta-Sitosteryl palmitate, beta-Sitosterol, Ikshusterol, beta-Sitosteryl glucoside

Pharmacological effect

Not exactly known

DNA sequence

AF090712, AF090713; Traditioal Medical & Parmaceutical Database.

Classical reference
(Chinese Herbal Classic "Zhenglei bencao")

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Disease

Cough, Dry cough, Thirst, Fever, Chronic bronchitis

Formulation

rarely used in formula

Related drugs

Beishashen (binfangfeng), Manshen (see "Remarks")

References

Non-JPS2022: The Japanese standards for non-Pharmacopoeial crude drugs 2022.
CP2020: Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China 2020 edi.
C1) Shoyakugaku Zasshi,44,98-100(1990).

Remarks

Chinese "Shashen" consists of southern and northern "Shashen". Southern "Shashen" is from the plants of family Campanulaceae of genus Adenophora and northern "Shashen" is the barked root of Glehnia littoralis Fr. Schmidt et Miquel of family Umbelliferae (Jap. name: Hamabohu). Southern "Shashen" has strong behavior of removing phlegm, while northern "Shashen" has strong effect of nourishing Yin.
Korean "Shashen" is the root of Codonopsis lanceolata (Sieb. et Zucc.) Trautv. of family Campanulaceae. In Korea, this species is called "Totok" which is the origin of Japanese "Totoki". Japanese "Shashen" is mostly the root of Adenophora triphylla A.DC. var. japonica Hara (Jap. name: Tsuriganeninjin).

Last renewal date

2022/07/19

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