Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge |
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Botanical Name |
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Anemarrhena asphodeloides Bunge |
English
Name |
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Anemarrhena |
Family |
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Agavaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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Rhizome to 10 × 0.5-1.7 cm. Leaves 10-60 × 0.15-1 cm, glabrous, margin scabrid. Scape (20--)35-100 cm, glabrous. Raceme 10-50 cm; bracts ovate or ovate-orbicular, apex often long acuminate. Perianth segments pink, pale purple, or white, linear or narrowly oblong, 5-10 × 1-1.5 mm, persistent in fruit. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. Style ca. 1 mm. Capsule 0.8-1.5 × 0.3-0.6 cm including beaked apex, prominently 6-angled. Seeds black, narrowly oblong-elliptic, slightly curved, 7-12 × 2.5-3 mm. |
| Herb Effects |
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Anti-fungal, antiseptic, bitter, diuretic, expectorant, febrifuge, hypoglycaemic, laxative, lenitive, sedative and tonic (rhizome); antiinflammatory, antipyretic, depurative, peristaltic. |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Asphonin, mangiferin, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, protocatechuic acid, (rhizome); isomangiferin (plant) |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Mangiferin |
99331-60-9 |
1,3,6,7-tetrahydroxy
-2-[(3S,4R,5R,6R)-3,
4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hy
droxymethy
l)oxan-2
-yl]xanthen-9-one |
C19H18O11 |
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| Nicotinic acid |
99148-57-9 |
pyridine-3-carboxyli
c acid |
C6H5NO2 |
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| Pantothenic acid |
599-54-2 |
3-[(2,4-dihydroxy-3,
3-dimethyl-butanoyl)
amino]propanoic acid |
C9H17NO5 |
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| Protocatechuic acid |
5417-95-8 |
N,N-diethyl-N'-(2,4,
8,9-tetrazabicyclo[4
.3.0]nona-2,4,7,10-t
etraen-5-y
l)propan
e-1,3-diamine |
C12H20N6 |
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| Isomangiferin |
Not Available |
1,3,6,7-tetrahydroxy
-4-[(2S,3S,4R,5R,6R)
-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-
(hydroxyme
thyl)oxa
n-2-yl]xanthen-9-one |
C19H18O11 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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For fevers accompanied with dryness in the lungs, stomach or kidneys, ulcers, cancer, childbirth, cough, diabetes, dysentery, fever, hyperglycemia, inflammation, lumbago, morning sickness, osteosis, pneumonia, scarlet fever, spermatorrhea, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus, vertigo. |
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