Polygonatum cyrtonema
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Nomenclature
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Historical Use of Polygonatum cyrtonema
Polygonatum cyrtonema in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Huangjing
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Siberian Solomonseal Rhizome
Specific Name : Rhizoma Polygonati
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Collection : The drug is collected in spring and autumn, removed from the fibrous root, washed clean, blanched in boiling water or steamed to soften and dried.
Description : Duhuanging: Fleshly tuberculated, up to more than 10 cm long, 3 - 6 cm wide, 2 - 3 cm thick. Externally pale yellow to yellowish brown with ring shape nodes, striations and fibrous root scar, the upper part of the nodes showing lateral stem scars orbitulate with a sunken circumference and prominent center. Texture hard and tenacious, uneasily broken, fracture horny, pale yellow to yellowish brown. Odour slight, taste sweet and viscous in chewing.Jitouhuangjing: Tubercles curved and cylindrical, 3 - 10 cm long, 0.5 - 1.5 cm in diameter. Node 2 - 4 cm long, somewhat conical, often branched, externally yellowish white or greyish yellow, translucent with longitudinal wrinkles, round stem scars 5 - 8 mm in diameter.Jiangxinghuangjing: Elongated tubercles, varying length, often connected in groups of several tubercles. Externally greyish yellow or yellowish brown, rough bearing prominent and orbiculate stem scars on the upper part of nodes, 0.8 - 1.5 cm in diameter. Not to be used as drugs if it taste bitter.Identification: Transverse section of Rhizome:Dahuangjing: External walls of epidermal cells relatively thick. Numerous large mucilaginous cells containing raphides of calcium oxalate, scattered in parenchyma. Vascular bundles scattered throughout, usually in amphivasal type.Jitouhuangjing, Jiangxinghuangjing: Vascular bundles usually in collateral-type.
Identification :
Processing : Rhizoma Polygonati: Eliminate foreign matter, wash clean, slightly soften, cut into thick slices and dry.Rhizoma Polygonati (processed with wine): Stew or steam thoroughly as describe under the method for stewing with wine or steaming with wine (Appendix ll D). Dry briefly in the air, cut into thick slices and dry. To each 100 kg of Rhizoma Polygonati add 20 kg of yellow rice wine.
Action :
Indication : weakness of the spleen and the stomach marked by lasitude, dryness in the mouth and anorexia; dry cough due to deficiency of the lung; deficiency of vital essence and blood; diabetes caused by internal heat
Precautions :
Dosage : 10-30g
Storage :
Synonymns for Polygonatum cyrtonema
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Polygonatum cyrtonema
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Polygonatum cyrtonema 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
Tian Zheng, Huiyun Chen, Yuanguo Yu, Pan Wang, Yongxin Li, Gang Chen, Jinping Si, Huqing Yang
Property and quality of japonica rice cake prepared with Polygonatum cyrtonema powder.
Food Chem X: 2024, 22;101370
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Ruihua Nie, Cuihong Wu, Xuan Zhang, Pei Deng
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Molecules: 2024, 29(7);
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Jian-Guo Zhang, Jing-Jing Wang, Wang-Wei Zhang, Zi-Jing Guan, Kiran Thakur, Fei Hu, Mohammad Rizwan Khan, Zhao-Jun Wei
Metabolomics and HS-SPME-GC-MS-based analysis of quality succession patterns and flavor characteristics changes during the fermentation of Lycium barbarum and Polygonatum cyrtonema compound wine.
Food Res Int: 2024, 184;114270
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Qingyou Zhang, Yunzhang Cai, Luping Zhang, Mei Lu, Luyun Yang, Dekai Wang, Qiaojun Jia
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Front Microbiol: 2024, 15;1347204
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Jin Yong, Chaozheng Zhang, Yuening Cao, Shuang Tang, Fei Long, Zhixing Cao, Jun Lu, Teng Peng
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Pharmaceuticals (Basel): 2024, 17(3);
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