Solenognathus hardwickii
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Solenognathus hardwickii
Solenognathus hardwickii in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Background
Chinese Name (pinyin): Hailong
Chinese Name :
Common Name :Pipe Fish
Specific Name : Syngnathus
Scientific Name:
Collection : The drug is caught in summer and autumn. For Solenognathus hardwickii and syngnathoides biaculeatus, the skin and viscera are removed, wash clean and dried in the sun. For Singnathus acus, wash clean and dried in the sun.
Description : Body of Solenognathus hardwickii: Narrow long and laterally flattened. 30 - 50 cm long, the surface yellowish white or greyish brown. A long tubular snout in the front of the head. The mouth small, toothless, eyes rounded and deeply sunken. The head forming somewhat obtuse angle with axis of the body. The trunk 3 cm wide , five ridged. The anterior part of the tail six ridged, the posterior part tapered off, four ridged and coiled at the end. A stripe of greyish black spots at both sides of the dorsal ridge whole body covered with striated bony rings and with fine transverse streaks. Projected granular spines occurring in each bony ring. The pectorial fin short and wide, dorsal fin long, sometimes indistinct, caudal fin lacking. Texture bony and hard. Odour slightly stinking and taste slightly salty.
Identification :
Processing : Sift, break to pieces or cut into sections before use.
Action : To warm the kidney and promote virility, to reduce nodulation, and to induce subsidence of swelling.
Indication : impotence and seminal emission; mass in the abdomen; scrofula; traumatic injuries
external; carbuncles, boils
Precautions :
Dosage : 3 to 9 g; for external use, appropriate quantity to be ground into powder and applied topically.
Storage : Preserve in a cool and dry place, ptoected from moth.
Synonymns for Solenognathus hardwickii
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Solenognathus hardwickii
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Solenognathus hardwickii 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
Linhui Gao, Yan Yin, Jia Li, Yuan Yuan, Chao Jiang, Wei Gao, Xianan Zhang, Luqi Huang
Identification of traditional Chinese medicinal pipefish and exclusion of common adulterants by multiplex PCR based on 12S sequences of specific alleles.
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal: 2018, 29(3);340-346
[PubMed:28129724]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
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Dong-Mei Zhang, Li-Xing Feng, Lu Li, Miao Liu, Bao-Hong Jiang, Min Yang, Guo-Qiang Li, Wan-Ying Wu, De-An Guo, Xuan Liu
Nano-LC-ESI MS/MS analysis of proteins in dried sea dragon Solenognathus hardwickii and bioinformatic analysis of its protein expression profiling.
Chin J Nat Med: 2016, 14(9);709-713
[PubMed:27667517]
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[DOI]
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Yan Wu, Jia Liu, Mengyue Wang, Peijun Ju, Xiaobo Li
[Identification on Syngnathus and its adulterants with random amplified polymorphic DNA].
Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi: 2009, 34(14);1758-60
[PubMed:19894500]
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T B Ng, Y W Lam
Solenin, a novel protein with translation-inhibiting activity from the traditional Chinese medicinal fish, the sea dragon Solenognathus hardwickii.
Int J Biochem Cell Biol: 2002, 34(6);625-31
[PubMed:11943593]
[WorldCat.org]
[DOI]
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