Cuscuta japonica
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Cuscuta japonica
Cuscuta japonica in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
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Chinese Name (pinyin): Tusizi
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Dodder Seed
Specific Name : Semen cuscutae
Scientific Name:
Collection : The plant is collected in autumn when the fruit is ripe, dried in the sun, the seed is collected and removed from foreign matters.
Description : Subspherical, 1 - 1.5mm in diameter. Externally greyish brown or yellowish brown with numerous fine projecting dot, a slightly sunken linear raphe at one end. Texture hard, difficult to break with finger, slight odor and taste weak.
Identification : Macerate a small quantity in boiling water, a mucilage is produce on the surface, boil until the testa is broken, yellowish white silky rotary embryo is revealed. Total ash: Not more than 10.0% (Appendix lX K)Processing: Eliminate foreign matters, was, clean and dry in the sun.Stir fried with salt : Stir fry clean Semen Cuscutae as described under the method for stir frying with salt water (Appendix ll D) until the seeds become slightly convex. Externally brownish yellow, broken and slightly aromatic. A mucilage is produced on the surface after macerating the processed Semen Cuscutae in appropriate quantity of boiling water. A yellow to dark brown curved and rotary embryo is revealed after boiling.
Processing :
Action : To arrest seminal discharge and abnormal urination, prevent abortion, improve eyesight and relieve diarrhea by replenishing and tonifying the liver and the kidney.
Indication : impotence, seminal emission, dripping of urine after urination, aching and weakness of the loins and knees, blurred vision and tinnitus; threatened abortion due to hypofunction of the kidney; diarrhea due to hypofunction of the spleen and the kidney
external: vitiligo
Precautions :
Dosage : 6 to 12 g, appropriate quantity for external use.
Storage : Preserve in a ventilated and dry place.
Synonymns for Cuscuta japonica
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Cuscuta japonica
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Cuscuta japonica 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
Hangkai Pan, Lyuben Zagorchev, Luxi Chen, Yutian Tao, Chaonan Cai, Ming Jiang, Zhongshuai Sun, Junmin Li
Complete chloroplast genomes of five Cuscuta species and their evolutionary significance in the Cuscuta genus.
BMC Genomics: 2023, 24(1);310
[PubMed:37291497]
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Wei-Bin Wang, Fan-Fan Gao, Wei-Wei Feng, Qi-Ye Wu, Yu-Long Feng
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Front Plant Sci: 2022, 13;904326
[PubMed:36212307]
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Chenglin Guo, Liuyan Qin, Yongling Ma, Jianlin Qin
Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of the parasitic plant Cuscuta japonica Choisy on host and non-host plants.
BMC Plant Biol: 2022, 22(1);393
[PubMed:35934696]
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Yanxiang Lin, Pan Li, Yuchan Zhang, Delara Akhter, Ronghui Pan, Zhixi Fu, Mingqing Huang, Xiaobo Li, Yanlei Feng
Unprecedented organelle genomic variations in morning glories reveal independent evolutionary scenarios of parasitic plants and the diversification of plant mitochondrial complexes.
BMC Biol: 2022, 20(1);49
[PubMed:35172831]
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Katsuhisa Furuhashi, Koji Iwase, Takeshi Furuhashi
Role of Light and Plant Hormones in Stem Parasitic Plant (Cuscuta and Cassytha) Twining and Haustoria Induction.
Photochem Photobiol: 2021, 97(5);1054-1062
[PubMed:33934364]
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