Luffa acutangla
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Nomenclature
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Historical Use of Luffa acutangla
Luffa acutangla in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Sigualuo
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Luffa
Specific Name : Retinervus luffae fructus
Scientific Name:
Collection : The drug is collected in autumn and summer when the fruit is ripe, the pericarp turns to yellow and the inner part withered, removed from exocarp and sarcocarp, washed clean, dried in the sun and removed from the seed.
Description : Inter-woven slivery vascular bundles, mostly prolate cylindrical, somewhat curved, 30 - 70 cm long, 7 - 10 cm in diameter. Externally pale yellowish white. Texture light, tenacious and springy, uneasily broken. 3 loculi visible, transverse section hollowed. Odour slight, taste weak.
Identification : Removed the remained seeds and exocarp and cut into sections.
Processing :
Action : To remove obstruction from the collaterals, to promote blood circultion, and to dispel wind.
Indication : arthralgia with muscular contracture; distension and pain in the chest and costal regions, glactostasis
Precautions :
Dosage : 4.5 to 9 g.
Storage : Preserve in a dry place.
Synonymns for Luffa acutangla
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Luffa acutangla
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Luffa acutangla in the Treatment of Epilepesy
Basic Science
Animal Studies
Cohort, Case-Control and Non-Randomized Trials
Randomized Controlled Trials
Meta-Analysis
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Jianting Liu, Lijuan Peng, Chengjuan Cao, Changhui Bai, Yuqian Wang, Zuliang Li, Haisheng Zhu, Qingfang Wen, Shuilin He
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Plants (Basel): 2024, 13(5);
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Meng Cao, Junfeng Su, Lingfei Zhang, Amjad Ali, Zhao Wang, Yue Wang, Yihan Bai
Loofah sponge crosslinked polyethyleneimine loaded with biochar biofilm reactor for ecological remediation of oligotrophic water: Mechanism, performance, and functional characterization.
Bioresour Technol: 2024, 399;130567
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Samuel Ogunniyi, Ebuka Chizitere Emenike, Kingsley O Iwuozor, Joshua O Ighalo, Abdelrahman O Ezzat, Tunmise Latifat Adewoye, Abel Egbemhenghe, Hussein K Okoro, Adewale George Adeniyi
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Heliyon: 2024, 10(4);e26443
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Soheil Tavassoli, Setareh Cheraghi, Pardis Etemadifar, Afsaneh Mollahosseini, Shirin Joodaki, Niloofar Sedighi
Optimization and characterization of silver nanoparticle-modified luffa for the adsorption of ketoprofen and reactive yellow 15 from aqueous solutions.
Sci Rep: 2024, 14(1);4398
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