Lycopodium japonicum
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Lycopodium japonicum
Lycopodium japonicum in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Shenjincao
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Club Moss
Specific Name : Herba lycoopodii
Scientific Name:
Collection : The drug is collected in summer and autumn when foliage branch growing luxuriantly, removed from foreign matter and dried in the sun.
Description : Stolons thin-cylindrical, slightly curved up to 2m long, 1 - 3mm in diameter with yellowish white rootlets underneath. Erect stems bifurcated. Leaves densely growing on the stems, spirally arranged crumpled and curved, linear or needle shape, 3 - 5mm long, yellowish green to pale yellowish brown, glabrous, aristate at the apex, margin entire, easily broken. Texture soft, fracture pale yellow in the bark and whitish in wood, odorless and taste weak.
Identification : 1.Transverse section of the stem: Epidermal cells 1 row, cortex broad, scattered with leaf trace bundles, bearing 10 - 20 or more rows of sclerenchymatous cells below the epidermis and outside the stele respectively and 3 - 5 rows of parenchymatous cells with slightly thickened walls between them, endodermis indistinct. Pericycle consisting of several rows of parenchymatous cells, plectostele, bundles of xtlem irregularly strip shaped or branch intermingled with bundles of phloem, some cells containing yellowish brown masses.2.To 3g of the powder add 30ml of ethanol, heat under reflux for 20 minutes and filter. Evaporate the filtrate to dryness, add 10ml of 1% hydrochloric acid solution to the residue, stir and filter. Adjust the filtrate to pH8 with ammonia TS, extract with 10ml of chloroform, evaporate the chloroform extract to dryness and dissolve the residue in 5 ml of 1% hydrochloric acid solution. Transfer 1ml of each of the above solution to 2 test tube, add 2 drops of potassium iodobismuthate iodide TS to one tube, an orange red precipitate is produced. Add 2 drops of silicotungstic acid TS to the other, a white precipitate is produced.
Processing : Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean, cut into sections and dry.
Action : To relieve rheumatic conditions and muscular contracture.
Indication : arthralgia with limited mobility of the joints
Precautions :
Dosage : 3 to 12 g.
Storage : Preserve in a dry place.
Synonymns for Lycopodium japonicum
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Lycopodium japonicum
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Lycopodium japonicum 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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Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by the Yi people in Mile, Yunnan, China.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed: 2024, 20(1);22
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Zhen Xie, Yang Liu, Qiang Luo, Qiang Wang, Yue-Bing Min, Lin Liu, Dong-Kun Zheng
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Nat Prod Res: 2023;1-7
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Dan Xia, Zi-Han Wang, Jia-Meng Jiang, Xue-Wen Yang, Yue Gao, Yin-Ying Xu, Lin-Yue Chang, Dan Zhu, Bao-Jun Zhao, Xin-Liu Zhu, Jian Zhang, Zhi-Qi Yin, Ke Pan
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Org Lett: 2022, 24(25);4684-4688
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Xi Wang, Fuqian Wang, Jun Wu, Shun-Qing Chen, Cheng-Shi Jiang, Sheng-Ping Yang, Cong Wang, You-Sheng Cai
Japonisine A, a fawcettimine-type Lycopodium alkaloid with an unusual skeleton from Lycopodium japonicum Thunb.
Fitoterapia: 2022, 156;105069
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Xin Li, Mingqin Kang, Ningning Ma, Tan Pang, Yanjun Zhang, Hua Jin, Zhen Yang, Lili Song
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Evid Based Complement Alternat Med: 2019, 2019;5165029
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