Syngnathus acus
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Nomenclature
Other Names:
Historical Use of Syngnathus acus
Syngnathus acus 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 Syngnathus acus
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Syngnathus acus
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Syngnathus acus 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
Arsalan Emami-Khoyi
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Data Brief: 2024, 52;109864
[PubMed:38146291]
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Zhen Gao, Meng-Xue Wang, Cheng-Long Gao, Sha Chen, Xu-Wen Li
New Glycerolipids from the Traditional Chinese Medicine of Syngnathus acus (Hai-Long).
Chem Biodivers: 2023, 20(6);e202300616
[PubMed:37232046]
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Estefanía Montero, Carlos Rojo-Solís, Noelia de Castro, Miguel Fernández, Valentín Pérez, Juan M Corpa, Joaquín Ortega
Clinical and Pathological Findings Associated with Mycobacteriosis in Captive Syngnathids.
Animals (Basel): 2022, 12(23);
[PubMed:36496780]
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Miquel Planas
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Biology (Basel): 2022, 11(5);
[PubMed:35625444]
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Li-Jun Huang, Xin-Ai Li, Meng-Ying Jin, Wen-Xiu Guo, Li-Rong Lei, Ran Liu, Ming-Zhi Zhang, Da-Le Guo, Dong Wang, Yan Zhou, Yun Deng, Jian-Guang Zhang
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J Asian Nat Prod Res: 2023, 25(2);147-155
[PubMed:35582859]
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