Euphorbia kansui

Background

Chaogansui ³´¸ÊËì Zhigansui ÖƸÊËì Chinese Name (pinyin): Gansui

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Kansui Root of Gansui

Specific Name  : Radix kansui

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected before flowering in spring or after the aerial part withering in autumn, removed from the outer bark and dried in the sun.

Description  : Ellipsoid or long cylindrical or moniliform. 1 - 5 cm long, 0.5 - 2.5 cm in diameter. Externally whitish or yellowish white with brown patches of cork adhering at a depression. Texture fragile, easily broken fracture starchy and white, wood slightly, radial striated, long cylindrical tubers appearing more fibrous. Odour slight, taste sweetish and pungent.

Identification  : Powder: Whitish, starch granules fairly abundant, simple granules spherical or hemispherical 5 - 34 µm in diameter, hilum pointed, slit shape or stellate compound granules of 2 - 8 components. Non-articulated laticiferous tubes containing yellowish minute granular substances. Thick walled cells rectangular, fusiform, subtriangular or polygonal, walls slightly lignified or nonlignified. Bordered pitted vessels more frequent, usually accompanied with fibre bundles.

Processing  : Radix Kansui (unprepared): Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean and dry in the sun.Stir fry with vinegar: Stir fry as described under the method for stir frying with vinegar (Appendix ll D) to dryness, using 30 kg of vinegar per 100 kg of Radix Gansui.

Action  : To cause drastic purgation and expel the retained water.

Indication  : anasarca, hydrothorax or ascites with dyspnea, constipation and oliguria

Precautions  : Contraindicated in pregnancy. Incompatible with Radix Glycyrrhizae.

Dosage  : 0.5 to 1.5 g, mostly used for making pills or powder after processing.

Storage  : Preserve in a ventilated dry place, protected from moth.

Evidence or the Use of Euphorbia kansui in the Treatment of Epilepesy

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Yaxu Wang, Liwei Gu, Jichong Li, Ruqi Wang, Yuan Zhuang, Xiangyun Li, Xinye Wang, Junzhe Zhang, Qingbo Liu, Jigang Wang, Shao-Jiang Song
13-oxyingenol dodecanoate derivatives induce mitophagy and ferroptosis through targeting TMBIM6 as potential anti-NSCLC agents.
Eur J Med Chem: 2024, 270;116312
[PubMed:38552425] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Shengyun Dai, Shikang Zhou, Yonghui Ju, Weifeng Yao, Yuping Tang, Jian Zheng, Shuangcheng Ma, Yi Zhang, Li Zhang
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Front Pharmacol: 2023, 14;1249910
[PubMed:38026948] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Han-Xiang Liu, Yu-Song Zhang, Shi-Kang Zhou, Yi Zhang, Li Zhang
[Optimization of parameters for stir-frying of Kansui Radix with vinegar based on conversion of toxic components].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2023, 48(11);2958-2967
[PubMed:37381956] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Xiao-Qin Gao, Jin-di Xu, Shi-Kang Zhou, Yi Zhang, Li Zhang
[Jujubae Fructus alleviates intestinal injury caused by toxic medicinals in Shizao Decoction based on correlation between intestinal flora and host metabolism].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2023, 48(10);2792-2802
[PubMed:37282939] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Xiaoyi Feng, Jianchun Li, Hongmei Li, Xuanqin Chen, Dan Liu, Rongtao Li
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Molecules: 2023, 28(6);
[PubMed:36985801] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)