Litsea cubeba
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Litsea cubeba
Litsea cubeba in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Bichengqie
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Litsea Cubebs
Specific Name : Fructus litseae
Scientific Name:
Collection : The drug is collected in autumn when ripe, remove from foreign matter and dried in the sun.
Description : Subspheroidal, 4 - 6mm in diameter. Externally brown to blackish brown with reticulated wrinkles. Occasionally the base bearing a persistant calyx and fine fruit stalk. A hard fragile kernel visible when removing the pericarp, 1 seed, 2 cotyledons, yellowish brown, oily, odur aromatic and taste slightly pungent and slightly bitter.
Identification :
Processing :
Action : To warm the spleen and stomach, and promote the flow of qi to relieve pain.
Indication : nausea and vomiting; due to cold in the stomach, epigastric pain accompanied by feeling of cold; abdominal colic of cold type; turbid urine caused by cold-damp
Precautions :
Dosage : 1.5 to 3 g.
Storage : Preserve in a cool and dry place.
Synonymns for Litsea cubeba
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Litsea cubeba
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Litsea cubeba 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
Mawardi Yusufe Adame, Ce Shi, Changzhu Li, Tariq Aziz, Metab Alharbi, Haiying Cui, Lin Lin
Fabrication and characterization of pullulan/tapioca starch-based antibacterial films incorporated with Litsea cubeba essential oil for meat preservation.
Int J Biol Macromol: 2024;131775
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Giseli Cristina Pante, Juliana Cristina Castro, Renata Sano Lini, Jéssica Cristina Zoratto Romoli, Thiago Yoshioka Pires, Francielle Pelegrin Garcia, Celso Vataru Nakamura, Ana Claúdia Nogueira Mulati, Graciette Matioli, Miguel Machinski Junior
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Molecules: 2024, 29(7);
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Wei Dai, Boyi Li, Yanli Xiong, Liping Dai, Yuan Tian, Liangqian Zhang, Qi Wang, Guoqiang Qian
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Molecules: 2024, 29(4);
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Hongjun Fu, Liyuan Wang, Jiahui Gu, Xianglian Peng, Jian Zhao
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Foods: 2024, 13(4);
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Yankai Luo, Yuchen Bi, Ziyun Xu, Linxian Shan, Jun He, Kedan Wang, Zhengjiang Zhou, Lihui Yu, Xingjiao Jiang, Jiangrui Yang, Lijun Yu, Rui Gao, Jingran Wei, Xiaocui Du, Yan Liu, Chongye Fang
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Front Vet Sci: 2023, 10;1335208
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