Pleione yunnanensis
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Pleione yunnanensis
Pleione yunnanensis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Shancigu
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Appendiculate Cremastra Pseudo-bulb
Specific Name : Pseudobulbus cremastrae seu pleniones
Scientific Name:
Collection : The drug is collected in autumn and summer, removed from the aerial part and soil, sorted according to size, steamed thoroughly with boiling water and dried.
Description : Maocigu: Irregularly oblate or conical, top gradually protruding, base with rootlet scars, 1.8 - 3 cm long. The swollen part 1 - 2 cm in diameter. External yellowish brown or brown, with longitudinal wrinkles and furrows and exhibiting 2 - 3 slight prominent, ringed nodes with remains of some fusiform fibres derived from the withering and decaying scaly leaves. Texture hard, not easily broken, fracture greyish white or yellowish white, slightly horny. Odour slight and taste weak and sticky.Bingqiuzi: Conical, bottle neck like or irregular masses, 1 - 2cm in diameter. 1.5 - 2.5cm high. Top acuminate, the broken tip dish shaped, base swollen and rounded flattened, dented at the middle with 1 - 2 ringed nodes, mostly inclined to one side. Externally yellowish white for the peeled drug and brownish for the unpeeled, smooth with irregular wrinkles. Fracture yellowish, horny and translucent.Identification: Transverse section: Macigu The outer most consisting of a layer of flattened epidermal cells, 2 - 3 layers of sclerenchymatous cells beneath, yellowish. The inner most consisting of large subrounded parenchymatous cells containing mucilage and starch granules. Parenchymatous cells near epidermis containing raphides of calcium oxalate, 70 - 150µm long. Vascular bundles scattered, collateral.Bingqiuzi: Epidermal cells tangentially elongated, starch granules occurring in a small parenchymatous cells, vascular bundle sheath fibres crescent, occasionally double crescent.
Identification :
Processing : Eliminate foreign matter, soak for about 1 hour, soften thoroughly, cut into thin slices and dry, or fry after washing. Pound to pieces before use.
Action : To remove toxic heat, and to dissolve lumps.
Indication :
Precautions :
Dosage : 9 to 15 g.
Storage : Preserve in a dry place.
Synonymns for Pleione yunnanensis
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Pleione yunnanensis
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Pleione yunnanensis 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
Shao-Wei Han, Xiao-Juan Wang, Bao-Song Cui, Hua Sun, Hui Chen, Daneel Ferreira, Shuai Li, Mark T Hamann
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J Nat Prod: 2021, 84(3);738-749
[PubMed:33606538]
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Qiu-Ping Wu, Wan-Yao Wang, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Song-Jun Zeng, Lin Li, Zhong-Jian Liu
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Mitochondrial DNA B Resour: 2020, 5(3);2469-2470
[PubMed:33457830]
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Guangyan Li, Xiangwen Song, Bangxing Han, Shiying Fang
[Evolution of the origin of strain of Shancigu (Rhizoma Pleionis)].
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi: 2015, 45(3);137-40
[PubMed:26420522]
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Xiao-Juan Wang, Bao-Song Cui, Chao Wang, Shuai Li
[Chemical constituents from Pleione yunnanensis].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2014, 39(5);851-6
[PubMed:25204178]
[WorldCat.org]
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Bao-Song Cui, Jie Song, Shuai Li, Lin Ma, Jian-Gong Shi
[Determination of dactylorhin A and militarine in three varieties of Cremastrae Pseudobulbus/Pleiones Pseudobulbus by HPLC].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2013, 38(24);4347-50
[PubMed:24791543]
[WorldCat.org]
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