Compendium of Materia Medica
The ''Bencao gangmu'', known in English as the ''Compendium of Materia Medica'' or ''Great Pharmacopoeia'', is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history, and Chinese herbology compiled and edited by Li Shizhen and published in the ...
and
Kampo herb list
''Kampō'' (or ''Kanpō'', 漢方) medicine is the Japanese study and adaptation of traditional Chinese medicine. In 1967, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare approved four ''kampo'' medicines for reimbursement under the National ...
. It is an ingredient in the traditional Chinese medicine pill
Chaihu Shugan Wan Chaihu Shugan Wan () is a blackish-brown honeyed pill used in Traditional Chinese medicine to "disperse stagnated liver-qi, to activate the flow of qi, to relieve distension and pain".State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia ...
against "stagnation of liver qi, distension of chest and hypochondria, indigestion, and acid eructation", and in the Lindera Combination Teapills (simpl. 天台乌药丸, trad. 天臺烏藥丸, pinyin : tiāntái wūyào wán), a
Chinese classic herbal formula Chinese classic herbal formulas () are combinations of herbs used in Chinese herbology for supposed greater efficiency in comparison to individual herbs. They are the basic herbal formulas that students of Traditional Chinese medicine learn. Later t ...
.
Biochemistry
An
A type proanthocyanidin
A type proanthocyanidins are a specific type of proanthocyanidins, which are a class of flavonoid. Proanthocyanidins fall under a wide range of names in the nutritional and scientific vernacular, including oligomeric proanthocyanidins, flavonoids, ...
trimer (epicatechin-(4β→8,2β→O→7)-entcatechin-(4β-8)-catechin) can be found in ''Lindera aggregata''. In a study this compound showed cytoprotective action against ethanol-induced gastric injury in Sprague-Dawley rats.
Four alkaloids ( boldine, norboldine,
reticuline
Reticuline is a chemical compound found in a variety of plants including '' Lindera aggregata'', ''Annona squamosa'', and ''Ocotea fasciculata'' (also known as ''Ocotea duckei''). It is based on the benzylisoquinoline structure.
Reticuline is o ...
and linderegatine) can also be found in ''L. aggregata''.
References
aggregata
''Aggregata'' is a genus of parasitic alveolates belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa.
Taxonomy
The organism found in the octopus was first named as ''Benedenia octopiana'' by Schneider in 1875. Since ''Benedenia'' was preoccupied, ''Eucoccidium' ...