''Ligusticum'' (lovage,
licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of
flowering plants in the family
Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's Nort ...
. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of
Liguria.
[Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan .]
Species
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Ligusticum ajanense
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Huxl ...
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Ligusticum albanicum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Hu ...
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Ligusticum apiifolium
''Ligusticum apiifolium'' is a species of plant in the carrot family known by the common names celery-leafed lovage and celery-leaf licorice-root. It resembles other carrot-like plants, bearing umbel
In botany, an umbel is an inflorescence tha ...
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Ligusticum brachylobum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Hu ...
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Ligusticum calderi
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Hu ...
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Ligusticum californicum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Huxle ...
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Ligusticum canadense
''Ligusticum canadense'', known by the common names of American lovage, boar hog root, and Canadian licorice-root, is a member of the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is native to the eastern United States, primarily in Missouri, Tennessee, Georgi ...
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Ligusticum canbyi
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Hu ...
'' - Canby's licorice root
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Ligusticum filicinum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Hu ...
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Ligusticum gingidium
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Huxle ...
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Ligusticum grayi
''Ligusticum grayi'' is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Gray's licorice-root. It is native to the western United States from Montana to California, where it grows in moist, mountainous habitat, such as ...
'' - oshala, Gray's lovage
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Ligusticum holopetalum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Huxle ...
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Ligusticum hultenii''
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Ligusticum huteri''
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Ligusticum ibukicola''
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Ligusticum jeholense''
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Ligusticum monnieri''
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Ligusticum mutellina'' – alpine lovage
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Ligusticum porteri'' – oshá
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Ligusticum scoticum'' – Scots lovage
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Ligusticum sinense'' – ''gaoben'' 藁本
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Ligusticum striatum'' - Szechuan lovage, Szechwan lovage, ''chuanxiong, chuan xiong'' 川芎
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Ligusticum tenuifolium'' – Idaho lovage
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Ligusticum vaginatum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Huxle ...
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Ligusticum verticillatum
''Ligusticum'' (lovage, licorice root) is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its name is believed to derive from the Italian region of Liguria.Huxl ...
'' – northern lovage
Former species
''Ligusticum mutellinoides'' – small alpine lovage, is a synonym of ''
Neogaya simplex''
(L.) Meisn.
Uses
The roots of several species are used as medicinal herbs. ''
L. striatum'' (in older literature ''L. wallichi'' or ''L. chuanxiong'') is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in
Chinese herbology, where it is called ''chuānxiōng'' (
川
Radical 47 or radical river () meaning "river" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 26 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
is also the ...
芎); in English, Szechwan lovage. ''
L. porteri'' (osha) is used in Western herbal medicine. Chinese ''Ligusticum'' root contains alkaloids that have been shown in studies to inhibit
TNF-alpha production and TNF-alpha-mediated
NF-kappaB activation. One study conducted in Japan showed the active compounds found in ''
Ligusticum sinense'' have both anti-inflammatory and pain-reducing effects, exerting its anti-inflammatory benefits in the early and the late stages of processes in the inflammatory pathology.
Both ''Ligusticum sinense'' and ''
L. jeholens'' essential oils contain natural antimicrobial and
antioxidant agents.
[Jihua Wang, Liang Xu, Ling Yang, Zhilong Liu and Ligang Zhou "Composition, Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activities of Essential Oils from ''Ligusticum sinense'' and ''L. jeholense'' (Umbelliferae) from China" ''Rec. Nat. Prod.'' 5:4 (2011) 314-31]
Records of Natural Products
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References
Flora of North America
Apioideae genera
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