Uncaria hirsuta

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Nomenclature

Other Names:

Historical Use of Uncaria hirsuta

Uncaria hirsuta in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Background

Nengouteng ÄÛ¹³ÌÙ Shuangouteng Ë«¹³ÌÙ Chinese Name (pinyin): Gouteng

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Hooked Uncaria

Specific Name  : Ramulus uncariae cum uncis

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected in autumn and winter, removed from leaf, cut into section and dried in the sun.

Description  : Cylindrical or subsquare, 2 - 3 cm long, 2 - 5 mm in diameter. Externally reddish brown to purplish red with fine longitudinal striations, glabrous or yellowish green to greyish brown. Sometimes with white dotted lenticels covered with yellowish brown pubescence. Most nodes of stem branch with two opposite downward curved hooks (sterile peduncles). Some only with a hook at one side and with raised scars at the other side, hooks relatively flattened or rounded, apex acute, base relatively broad, dotted scars of falling petiole and ring shaped stipule scars visible on the branch at the hook base. Texture hard and tenacious, fracture yellowish brown, bark fibrous, pith yellowish white or hollowed. Odourless, taste weak.

Identification  : Moisten 1 g of the powder with concentrated ammonia, add 30 ml of chloroform, extract for 30 minutes, filter and evaporate the filtrate to dryness. Dissolve the residue in 5 ml of hydrochloric acid solution (1Õ100). Filter into three test tubes. To the first tube add 1 - 2 drops of potassium iodobismuthate TS, a yellow precipitate is produced, to the second tube add 1 - 2 drops of mercuric potassium iodide TS, a white precipitate is produced. To the third tube add 1 - 2 drops of silicontungstic acid TS, a white precipitate is produced.

Processing  :

Action  : To remove heat, subdue hyperactivity of the liver, and arrest convulsions.

Indication  : headache, dizziness, convulsion, eclampsia, hypertension

Precautions  :

Dosage  : 3 to 12 g, to be added when the decoction is nearly done.

Storage  : Preserve in a dry place.

Synonymns for Uncaria hirsuta

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Pharmaceutical Information

Chemical Constituents

Evidence or the Use of Uncaria hirsuta in the Treatment of Epilepesy

Basic Science

Animal Studies

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Meta-Analysis

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Ruolian Cao, Yuanyuan Wang, Ya Zhou, Jiaxin Zhu, Kexin Zhang, Wenyuan Liu, Feng Feng, Wei Qu
Advanced researches of traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, and toxicology of medical Uncariae Ramulus Cum Uncis.
J Ethnopharmacol: 2024, 325;117848
[PubMed:38336181] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Jiangpeng Dai, Qiaozhen Liu, Xingyuan Xu, Zhijie Tan, Yuexia Lin, Xiaoxia Gao, Shuang Zhu
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Front Plant Sci: 2023, 14;1271689
[PubMed:38186595] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Min-Min Chen, Miao Zhang, Zong-Suo Liang, Qiu-Ling He
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Int J Mol Sci: 2022, 23(19);
[PubMed:36232915] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Wenwen Huang, Zhonglian Zhang, Lu Niu, Xiaohan Hu, Tekleab Teka, Lifeng Han, Guixiang Pan, Qilong Wang
Rapid discovery of potentially vasodilative compounds from Uncaria by UHPLC/Q-Orbitrap-MS based metabolomics and correlation analysis.
J Pharm Biomed Anal: 2021, 206;114384
[PubMed:34607203] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Chien-Min Lin, Yi-Tzu Lin, Tai-Lin Lee, Zuha Imtiyaz, Wen-Chi Hou, Mei-Hsien Lee
In vitro and in vivo evaluation of the neuroprotective activity of Uncaria hirsuta Haviland.
J Food Drug Anal: 2020, 28(1);147-158
[PubMed:31883603] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

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