Vitex rotundifolia

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Nomenclature

Other Names:

Historical Use of Vitex rotundifolia

Vitex rotundifolia in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Background

Chinese Name (pinyin): Manjingzi

Chinese Name  :

Common Name  :Fruit of Shrub Chastetree

Specific Name  : Fructus Viticis

Scientific Name:
Collection  : The drug is collected from autumn when ripe. Removed from foreign matter and dried in the sun.

Description  : Spheroidal, 4 - 6mm in diameter, externally greyish black or blackish brown, covered with greyish white frost like hairs, bearing 4 longitudinal shallow furrows, apex slightly concave with greyish white, persistent calyx and short fruit stalk at the base. Calyx is 1/3 - 2/3 length of the fruit, 5 toothed, 2 of them relatively deep, covered with densely pubescent. Texture light and hard, uneasily broken. Transverse section showing 4 loculi, each with one seed. Odour characteristic and aromatic, taste weak and slightly pungent.

Identification  : Powder: Greyish brown, epidermal cells of calyx subrounded, walls frequently sinous, non-glndular hairs 2 - 3 celled, apical cell relatively wide with warty protrudings. Cells of epicarp polygonal with cuticle striations and scar of the hairs bearing glandular hairs and non-glandular hairs in two types. One with a unicellular head and a 1 - 2 celled stalk and the other a 2 -6 celled, 14 - 68µm long, often curved, warty walled. Cells of mesocarp oblong or subrounded, walls slightly lignified and with distinct pits. Vittae frequently broken containing secretions, adjacent cells containing pale yellow oil droplets. Stone cells of endocarp elliptical or subsquare. 10 - 35µm in diameter. Cells of testa rounded or subrounded, 42 - 73µm in diameter with reticulate striated and lignified walls.

Processing  : Eliminate foreign matterStir fried: Clean, stir fry gently as describe under the method for simple stir frying (Appendix ll D), break to pieces before use.

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Indication  : headache in upper respiratory tract infection; painful swelling of the gums; inflammation of the eye with lacrimation, blurring of vision and dizziness

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Synonymns for Vitex rotundifolia

Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Vitex rotundifolia

Pharmaceutical Information

Chemical Constituents

Evidence or the Use of Vitex rotundifolia 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

Myung-Ji Kang, Dong-Oh Moon, Ji-Yoon Park, Namho Kim, Su Hyeon Lee, Hyung Won Ryu, Yang Hoon Huh, Hyun-Sun Lee, Mun-Ock Kim
Rotundifuran Induces Ferroptotic Cell Death and Mitochondria Permeability Transition in Lung Cancer Cells.
Biomedicines: 2024, 12(3);
[PubMed:38540189] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)


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Ecol Evol: 2024, 14(3);e11165
[PubMed:38500860] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Qing Zhang, Jilin Zhang, Xiaohan Sun, Feng Wang, Renqing Wang, Hui Wang, Peiming Zheng
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Ecol Evol: 2024, 14(2);e10927
[PubMed:38414571] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P e)

Michael Elias Mgalula
An ethnobotanical study of wild edible fruits in miombo woodlands of Tabora region in Western Tanzania.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed: 2024, 20(1);23
[PubMed:38403583] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Martina Höller, Hubert Steindl, Dimitri Abramov-Sommariva, Julia Kleemann, Alexey Loleit, Christoph Abels, Petra Stute
Use of Vitex agnus-castus in patients with menstrual cycle disorders: a single-center retrospective longitudinal cohort study.
Arch Gynecol Obstet: 2024;
[PubMed:38393671] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Safety

Allergies

Side Effect and Warnings

Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

Adverse Effects