Local uses of Aristolochia species and content of nephrotoxic aristolochic acid 1 and 2-A global assessment based on bibliographic sources

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-144

  Heinrich, Michael ^a   Chan, Jennifer ^a   Wanke, Stefan ^b   Neinhuis, Christoph ^b   Simmonds, Monique S J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aristolochia; Aristolochic acids; Chinese herb nephropathy; Medicinal plants; Nephropathy; Risk assessment; Toxicology; Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIDIURETIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; AYURVEDIC DRUG; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; MENSTRUATION INDUCING AGENT; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT AGENT; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VETERINARY DRUG;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA; ANURIA; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARISTOLOCHIA ACUMINATA; ARISTOLOCHIA BRACTEOLATA; ARISTOLOCHIA CLEMATITIS; ARISTOLOCHIA DEBILIS; ARISTOLOCHIA INDICA; ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA; ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOBATA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BONE INJURY; BRONCHITIS; CATARACT; CHOLERA; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLIC; CONSTIPATION; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CROUP; CYSTITIS; DANDRUFF; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRACUNCULIASIS; DRUG STRUCTURE; DYSENTERY; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; ECZEMA; EDEMA; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; EPILEPSY; EPISTAXIS; ETHNOBOTANY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE DISEASE; FACE PAIN; FEVER; FLATULENCE; FOOD POISONING; FOOT EDEMA; FRACTURE; FURUNCULOSIS; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GONORRHEA; GOUT; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART DISEASE; HEART PALPITATION; HEARTBURN; HELMINTHIASIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMORRHOID; HEMORRHOID HEMORRHAGE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; HERNIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; IMPOTENCE; INDIGESTION; INFECTION; INFERTILITY; INFLUENZA; INGUINAL HERNIA; INSECT BITE; ISCHEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LARYNX DISORDER; LEG SWELLING; LEG ULCER; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; LEUKODERMA; LEUKORRHEA; LIMB SWELLING; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALARIA; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIGRAINE; MOUTH ULCER; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEMATODIASIS; NEOPLASM; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OPIATE ADDICTION; ORCHITIS; PAIN; PARALYSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PNEUMONIA; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; RASH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCABIES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN ALLERGY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SMALLPOX; SNAKEBITE; SORE THROAT; SPIDER BITE; SPLEEN DISEASE; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH PAIN; STOMACH SPASM; SYPHILIS; THRUSH; TINNITUS; TONGUE ULCER; TONSILLITIS; TOOTH PAIN; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TRICHOMONIASIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHOID FEVER; ULCER; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URETHRITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA MYCOSIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; VOMITING; WHEEZING; WORM INFECTION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; XEROSTOMIA;

ANIMALS; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARISTOLOCHIC ACIDS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARISTOLOCHIA; ARISTOLOCHIA BRACTEOLATA; ARISTOLOCHIA CLEMATITIS; ARISTOLOCHIA DEBILIS; ARISTOLOCHIA FANGCHI; ARISTOLOCHIA INDICA; ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA; ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOBATA; ARISTOLOCHIACEAE;

EID: 67749109772     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2009.05.028     Document Type: Article

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