Ligustrum lucidum

Background

Chinese Name (pinyin): Chongbaila

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Insect Wax

Specific Name  : Cera chinensis

Scientific Name:
Collection  :

Description  : White or whitish masses, the surface smooth or slightly wrinkled, lustrous. Texture light, hard somewhat fragile, broken when rubbing, fracture stripe shaped or granular, odeour slighty and tasteless.Melting point: 82-85ºC Acid Value: Not more than 1 Saponification Value: 70-92 iodine Value: Not more than 9

Identification  :

Processing  :

Action  : Excipient and lubricant for making pills and tablets.

Indication  :

Precautions  :

Dosage  : Preserve in well closed containers, stored in a cool place.

Storage  :

Background

Nuzhenshi Å®Õêʵ Chinese Name (pinyin): Nuzhenzi

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Glossy Privet Fruit

Specific Name  : Fructus ligustri lucidi

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected when ripe in winter, remove from branch and leaf, steamed or treated with boiling water for a moment and dried or dried directly.

Description  : Ovoid, elliptical or reniform, 6 - 8mm long, 3.5 - 5.5mm in diameter. Externally blackish purple or greyish black, shrunken and uneven with a fruit stalk at the base. Texture light. Epicarp thin, mesocarp relatively lax and soft, easily stripped off, endocarp woody, yellowish brown with longitudinal ribs, 1 seed, reform, purplish black, oily, odorless, taste sweet but slightly bitter and astringent.

Identification  : To 1g of the powder add 3ml of ethanol, shake for 5 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate to dryness in a porcelain dish. Dissolve the residue in 1ml of acetic anhydride, add 1 drop of sulfuric acid. A pink color is produced which turns to purple and then to dirty green. Examine under ultra violet light (365nm), a yellowish green fluorescence is observed.Foreign matter: not more than 3%

Processing  : Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean and dry.Processed with wine: stew or steam as describe under the method for stewing with wine or steaming with wine (Appendix ll D) until the wine is entirely absorbed or steam thoroughly.

Action  : To replenish the liver and kidney, improve eyesight and promote the growth of black hair.

Indication  : vertigo, tinnitus, weakness in the loins and knees, premature greying of hair and impaired eyesight due to deficiency of liver and kidney yin

Precautions  :

Dosage  : 6 to 12 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a dry place.

Background

Chinese Name (pinyin): Chongbaila

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Insect Wax

Specific Name  : Cera chinensis

Scientific Name:
Collection  :

Description  : White or whitish masses, the surface smooth or slightly wrinkled, lustrous. Texture light, hard somewhat fragile, broken when rubbing, fracture stripe shaped or granular, odeour slighty and tasteless.Melting point: 82-85ºC Acid Value: Not more than 1 Saponification Value: 70-92 iodine Value: Not more than 9

Identification  :

Processing  :

Action  : Excipient and lubricant for making pills and tablets.

Indication  :

Precautions  :

Dosage  : Preserve in well closed containers, stored in a cool place.

Storage  :

Background

Nuzhenshi Å®Õêʵ Chinese Name (pinyin): Nuzhenzi

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Glossy Privet Fruit

Specific Name  : Fructus ligustri lucidi

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected when ripe in winter, remove from branch and leaf, steamed or treated with boiling water for a moment and dried or dried directly.

Description  : Ovoid, elliptical or reniform, 6 - 8mm long, 3.5 - 5.5mm in diameter. Externally blackish purple or greyish black, shrunken and uneven with a fruit stalk at the base. Texture light. Epicarp thin, mesocarp relatively lax and soft, easily stripped off, endocarp woody, yellowish brown with longitudinal ribs, 1 seed, reform, purplish black, oily, odorless, taste sweet but slightly bitter and astringent.

Identification  : To 1g of the powder add 3ml of ethanol, shake for 5 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate to dryness in a porcelain dish. Dissolve the residue in 1ml of acetic anhydride, add 1 drop of sulfuric acid. A pink color is produced which turns to purple and then to dirty green. Examine under ultra violet light (365nm), a yellowish green fluorescence is observed.Foreign matter: not more than 3%

Processing  : Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean and dry.Processed with wine: stew or steam as describe under the method for stewing with wine or steaming with wine (Appendix ll D) until the wine is entirely absorbed or steam thoroughly.

Action  : To replenish the liver and kidney, improve eyesight and promote the growth of black hair.

Indication  : vertigo, tinnitus, weakness in the loins and knees, premature greying of hair and impaired eyesight due to deficiency of liver and kidney yin

Precautions  :

Dosage  : 6 to 12 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a dry place.

Background

Chinese Name (pinyin): Chongbaila

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Insect Wax

Specific Name  : Cera chinensis

Scientific Name:
Collection  :

Description  : White or whitish masses, the surface smooth or slightly wrinkled, lustrous. Texture light, hard somewhat fragile, broken when rubbing, fracture stripe shaped or granular, odeour slighty and tasteless.Melting point: 82-85ºC Acid Value: Not more than 1 Saponification Value: 70-92 iodine Value: Not more than 9

Identification  :

Processing  :

Action  : Excipient and lubricant for making pills and tablets.

Indication  :

Precautions  :

Dosage  : Preserve in well closed containers, stored in a cool place.

Storage  :

Background

Nuzhenshi Å®Õêʵ Chinese Name (pinyin): Nuzhenzi

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Glossy Privet Fruit

Specific Name  : Fructus ligustri lucidi

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected when ripe in winter, remove from branch and leaf, steamed or treated with boiling water for a moment and dried or dried directly.

Description  : Ovoid, elliptical or reniform, 6 - 8mm long, 3.5 - 5.5mm in diameter. Externally blackish purple or greyish black, shrunken and uneven with a fruit stalk at the base. Texture light. Epicarp thin, mesocarp relatively lax and soft, easily stripped off, endocarp woody, yellowish brown with longitudinal ribs, 1 seed, reform, purplish black, oily, odorless, taste sweet but slightly bitter and astringent.

Identification  : To 1g of the powder add 3ml of ethanol, shake for 5 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate to dryness in a porcelain dish. Dissolve the residue in 1ml of acetic anhydride, add 1 drop of sulfuric acid. A pink color is produced which turns to purple and then to dirty green. Examine under ultra violet light (365nm), a yellowish green fluorescence is observed.Foreign matter: not more than 3%

Processing  : Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean and dry.Processed with wine: stew or steam as describe under the method for stewing with wine or steaming with wine (Appendix ll D) until the wine is entirely absorbed or steam thoroughly.

Action  : To replenish the liver and kidney, improve eyesight and promote the growth of black hair.

Indication  : vertigo, tinnitus, weakness in the loins and knees, premature greying of hair and impaired eyesight due to deficiency of liver and kidney yin

Precautions  :

Dosage  : 6 to 12 g.

Storage  : Preserve in a dry place.

Evidence or the Use of Ligustrum lucidum in the Treatment of Epilepesy

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Yanli Xi, Lianxin Hu, Xiang Chen, Lili Zuo, Xuesong Bai, Weijie Du, Na Xu
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Molecules: 2024, 29(7);
[PubMed:38611703] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Raúl Porras-Gutiérrez-de-Velasco, Blessy Maruthukunnel-Mani, Juan Carlos Vizuet-de-Rueda, Josaphat Miguel Montero-Vargas, Luis M Teran
Patterns of allergen recognition in Ligustrum polysensitized patients: An immunoproteomics approach.
Allergy: 2024;
[PubMed:38573058] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas-Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Emilio Stefani, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappalà, Jean-Claude Grégoire, Chris Malumphy, Spyridon Antonatos, Virag Kertesz, Dimitrios Papachristos, Oresteia Sfyra, Alan MacLeod
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EFSA J: 2024, 22(3);e8665
[PubMed:38544739] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Shu-Hui Li, Yan Wu, Zhi-Dong Sun, Ji-En Chen, Deng-Yu Ying, Yue-Yue Huang, Yi-Tang Jin, Zhi-Chao Li
[Fire resistance of 15 main economic tree species in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan, China.]. [凉山州15种主要经济树种的防火性能.]
Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao: 2024, 35(1);203-211
[PubMed:38511457] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Yanliang Wu, Wen Shi, Haini Li, Chang Liu, Kuniyoshi Shimizu, Renshi Li, Chaofeng Zhang
Specneuzhenide improves bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice via AMPK-dependent reduction of PD-L1.
Phytomedicine: 2023, 128;155318
[PubMed:38493719] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)