Herbal textual research on Chinese medicine "Manjingzi"(Viticis Fructus).
10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20191009.102
- Author:
Wei ZHANG
1
;
Jia-Lun WANG
1
;
Li-Ying TANG
1
;
Zhi-Lai ZHAN
2
;
Hua-Sheng PENG
3
;
Hong-Jun YANG
4
Author Information
1. Insititute of Chinese Materia Medica,China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700,China.
2. National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica,China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700,China.
3. College of Pharmacy,Anhui University of Chinese Medicine Hefei 230012,China.
4. China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences Beijing 100700,China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Viticis Fructus;
drug processing;
herbal textual research;
original species
- MeSH:
China;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal/history*;
Fruit;
History, 15th Century;
History, Medieval;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
Pharmacopoeias as Topic;
Plants, Medicinal;
Vitex
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2019;44(24):5503-5507
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
To clarify the change and development of original plants of " Manjingzi"( Viticis Fructus),a traditional Chinese medicine,we investigated Vitex species on the ancient Chinese herbal texts. The study concluded that the Vitex trifolia and V. trifolia var.simplicifolia included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia( 2015 edition) are only two sources of ancient medicinal Viticis Fructus. There are many sources of vines used in ancient times,which are not fixed and unified. The early use of Viticis Fructus is likely to be the V. quinate var. quinata,V. negundo var. cannabifolia and V. negundo var. negundo. From the Tang Dynasty,the use of V. trifolia var. simplicifolia has been appeared. Until Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty,the V. trifolia has been used as a source of medicine for the Viticis Fructus,but even so,the source of medicinal plants of Viticis Fructus has not been unified. We suggested V. trifolia var. simplicifolia be used as mainly species for " Manjingzi" due to its widely used in ancient China.
