Bletilla striata
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Bletilla striata
Bletilla striata in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Baiji
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Bletilla Tuber
Specific Name : Rhizoma bletillae
Scientific Name:
Collection : The drug is collected in autumn and summer, removed from fibrous root, washed, boilel or steamed until absent from white spot on the cut surface, dried briefly in the sun, peeled to removed the outer tissue and dried in the sun.
Description : Irregularly oblate, mostly with 2 - 3 claw like branches, 1.5 - 5 cm long, 0.5 - 1.5 cm thick. Externally greyish white, possessing several concentric rings and brown dotted rootlet scars, with raised stem scars above and with a trace of another tuber joined below. Texture hard and uneasily broken, fracture whitish and horny. Odourless, taste bitter and viscous on chewing.
Identification : Powder: Yellowish white, the anticlinal walls of epidermal cells sinuous, slightly thickened, lignified with distinct pit canals. Raphides of calcium oxalate occurring in large sub rounded mucilage cells of scattered throughout the powder. Needle crystals 18 - 88 µm long. Fibres in bundles, 11 - 30 µm in diameter, walls lignified with V shape or elliptical pits. Scalariform bordered pitted and spiral vessels 10 - 32 µm in diameter. Masses of gelatinized starch granules colorless.
Processing : Wash clean, soften thoroughly, cut into thin slices and dried in the sun.
Action : To arrest bleeding, and to promote the subsidence or swelling and the growth of new tissue.
Indication : hemoptysis in pulmonary tuberculosis, hematemesis in peptic ulcer, traumatic bleeding, boils and sores; rhagadia
Precautions :
Dosage : 6 to 15 g, or 3 to 6 g to be gorund into powder for oral administration; appropriate quantity for external use.
Storage : Preserve in a ventilated and dry place.
Synonymns for Bletilla striata
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Bletilla striata
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Bletilla striata in the Treatment of Epilepesy
Basic Science
Animal Studies
Cohort, Case-Control and Non-Randomized Trials
Randomized Controlled Trials
Meta-Analysis
1st Five Results: pubmed search
Shun-Yao Tong, Ke Ye, Wen-Xiang Wang, Hong-Lian Ai
Harzianic acids and oxazolidinone from the endophytic fungus Ilyonectria sp. and their cytotoxicity activity.
Fitoterapia: 2024, 175;105941
[PubMed:38575089]
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Yue Wang, Tengteng Ding, Xing Jiang
Network Pharmacology Study on Herb Pair Bletilla striata-Galla chinensis in the Treatment of Chronic Skin Ulcers.
Curr Pharm Des: 2024;
[PubMed:38571354]
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Ju-Zhao Liu, Lu Wang, Li-Jie Jiang, Hong-Chang Lyu, Qiang Yuan, Guang-Fu Wang, Yu-Jie Fu, Qi Cui
In sight the behavior of natural Bletilla striata polysaccharide hydrocolloids by molecular dynamics method.
Int J Biol Macromol: 2024, 266(Pt 1);131245
[PubMed:38554922]
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Yeshan Zhang, Xue Han, Jun Zhao, Menglan Gan, Yaya Chen, Jinxia Zhang, Yu He, Mingkai Wu, Hai Liu
Process optimization and character evaluation of Bletilla striata polysaccharide (BSP) and chitosan (CS) composite hemostatic sponge (BSP-CS).
Biointerphases: 2024, 19(2);
[PubMed:38526056]
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Jing Li, Xiao-Fei Zhang, Hui-Wen Zhang, Jia-Qing Wen, Yan Zhang, Ling-Ling Xu
Array [盐胁迫对白及根际细菌群落组成及多样性的影响.]
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao: 2024, 35(1);219-228
[PubMed:38511459]
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