Medicinal plants of genus Curculigo: Traditional uses and a phytochemical and ethnopharmacological review

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 547-563

  Nie, Yan ^a   Dong, Xin ^a   He, Yongjing ^a   Yuan, Tingting ^a,b   Han, Ting ^a   Rahman, Khalid ^c   Qin, Luping ^a   Zhang, Qiaoyan ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curculigo; Pharmacology; Phytochemistry; Toxicology; Traditional use

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; ALKALOID DERIVATIVE; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; CURCULIGO CAPITULATA EXTRACT; CURCULIGO ORCHIOIDES EXTRACT; CURCULIGO PILOSA EXTRACT; CURCULIGOSIDE; ER XIAN TANG; EUDESMANE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; GENG NIAN AN PIAN; GLYCOSIDE; GU XIAN PIAN; LIGNAN DERIVATIVE; LIGNAN GLYCOSIDE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PHENOLIC GLYCOSE; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE; SAN XIAN TANG; TIAO JING CU YUN WAN; TRITERPENE DERIVATIVE; TRITERPENOID GLYCOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XIAN MAO FU GUI BA WEI TANG JIA WEI; XIAN MIAO SAN; XIAN MIAO WAN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABSCESS; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; AMENORRHEA; ANOREXIA; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTHRITIS; ASTHENIA; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BLINDNESS; BONE HYPERPLASIA; BURN INFECTION; CARBUNCLE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COLIC; COUGHING; CURCULIGO; CURCULIGO CAPITULATA; CURCULIGO ORCHIOIDES; CURCULIGO PILOSA; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG STRUCTURE; DYSMENORRHEA; DYSPHORIA; DYSURIA; EJACULATION DISORDER; ENURESIS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FAINTNESS; FOOT PAIN; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; GONOBLENNORRHEA; GONORRHEA; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND PAIN; HEMATURIA; HEMORRHOID; HEPATITIS; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IMPOTENCE; INFERTILITY; INJURY; IRRITABLE COLON; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY INJURY; KNEE ARTHRITIS; LEUKORRHEA; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; LUMBAR ARTHRITIS; MAST CELL; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOXENIA; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEPHRITIS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHIZOME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SPERMATORRHEA; SYPHILIS; TINNITUS; TOXICITY TESTING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERUS BLEEDING; VASOCONSTRICTION; VOMITING; WOND; WOUND;

ANIMALS; CURCULIGO; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

CURCULIGO; CURCULIGO CAPITULATA; CURCULIGO ORCHIOIDES; RATTUS; SCOPUS;

EID: 84877585634     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: 18727573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.03.066     Document Type: Review

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