| [English Name] | Domestica Nandina Root or Fruit | |
| [Chinese Name] | 南天竹 | |
| [Pinying Name] | Nantianzhu | |
| [Latin Name] | Nandinae Radix seu Fructus | |
| [Genera] | Berberidaceae | |
| [Efficacy] | Antipyretic drug | |
| [Pictures] | Plant picture | Drug picture |
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| [Alias] | Licorice, soils of coptis chinensis, yellow diamond, coptis, chicken feet and coptis, mountains of scutellaria baicalensis Georgi | |
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| [Ecology] | It grows in open forest and bushes, mostly cultivated in courtyard.It prefers moist and subarid climate, air relative humidity of growth environment is required for the temerature between 50～70%,the nether leaves would be yellow 、falling off and the upper ones would be lacklustre when the air relative humidity is too low. Because of the provenance of subtropical area, the requirement for the winter temperature is strict,stops growing when below |
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1.Effect on Cardiovascular System: Domesticin show inhibit activity on isolated frog heart and extrasomatic rabbit heart. And it can increase coronary flow through cut down tensity on heart[1]. 2. Effect on Smooth Muscle: Domesticin show low concentration excited and high concentration depression on intestines and uterus in vitro while show excited activity in vivo[2]. 3. Effect on Central Nervous System: Domesticin show mild palsy at first, then crick, and death at last induced by Heart paralysis on frog. It show similar activity on mice[3]. |
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| [Clinical trial] | 无 | |
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| [Traditional usage] | Pertussis | |
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| [References] |
Pharmacologic Actions: [1] Hitani Tadahiro. Japana Centra Revuo Medicina( [2] Hitani Tadahiro. Japana Centra Revuo Medicina(Japan), 1937,55:796． [3] Hitani Tadahiro. Japana Centra Revuo Medicina(Japan), 1937,54:882． |
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