Analysis of varieties and standards of Scrophulariaceae plants used in Tibetan medicine.
- Author:
Lan CAO
;
Ze-jing MU
;
Wei-hong ZHONG
;
Wei-jin ZHONG
;
Jun-wei HE
;
Xiao-lang DU
;
Guo-yue ZHONG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
chemistry;
pharmacology;
Humans;
Medicine, Tibetan Traditional;
standards;
Plants, Medicinal;
chemistry;
classification;
Scrophulariaceae;
chemistry;
classification
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2015;40(23):4686-4692
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In this paper, the popular domestic varieties and quality standard of Scrophulariaceae plants used in Tibetan medicine were analyzed. The results showed that there were 11 genera and 99 species (including varieties), as well as 28 medicinal materials varieties of Scrophulariaceae plants were recorded in the relevant literatures. In relevant Tibetan standards arid literatures, there are great differences in varieties, sources, parts, and efficacies of medicinal plant. Among them, about 41.4% (including 41 species) of endemic plants, about 15.2% (including 15 species) of the original plants have medicinal standard legal records, except the medicinal materials of Scrophalaria ningpoensis, Lagotis brevituba, Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora, Veronica eriogyne general, most varieties have not completed quality standard. Consequently it is necessary to reinforce the herbal textual, resources and the use present situation investigation, the effects of the species resources material foundation and biological activity, quality standard, specification the medical terms of the plants, and promote Tibetan medicinal vareties-terminologies-sources such as the criterion and quality standard system for enriching the varieties of Tibetan medicinal materials and Chinese medicinal resources.
