Research advance in medicinal plants from genus Coreopsis.
- Author:
Yuan ZHANG
1
;
Ablise MOURBOUL
;
Zhi-Yuan LI
Author Information
1. School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100102, China. zhangyuanbjcm@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Animals;
Coreopsis;
chemistry;
Drug Discovery;
methods;
Drugs, Chinese Herbal;
chemistry;
pharmacology;
Humans;
Plants, Medicinal;
chemistry
- From:
China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2013;38(16):2633-2638
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
There are about 100 species in the genus Coreopsis which distributed in the America, south of Africa and Hawaiian Islands, and 7 species are distributed in China. The inflorescences of Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt. is the Uigur herb 'Snow chrysanthemum' which is named 'Shemuju' with the effects of heat-cleaning, detoxicating, dampness-dissipating and dysentery-curing in the Xinhua Herbal Scheme. The chemical constituents from Coreopsis plants mainly contain flavonoids, phenylpropanoids, sesquiterpenes, and sterols, which show anti-inflammatory activities in modern pharmaceutical research. This article presents an overview of the chemical constituents and pharmaceutical activities, prospects of development and exploitation of Coreopsis plants, hopefully to provide a basis for further research and development of Coreopsis plants.
