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[English Name] Chinese Toona Bark
[Chinese Name] 椿白皮  
[Pinying Name] Chunbaipi  
[Latin Name] Cortex Toonae Sinensis  
[Genera] Meliaceae
[Efficacy] shouseyao
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[Ecology]     It grows in road sidemiscellaneous wood beside dicth or bushes at the altitude between 1700 to 2500 metres.It prefers warm and moist climate,resistants to colddrought and salinity-alkalinity,doesn’t resistant to shade and wet.It is suitable for being cultivated in the loose fertile sandy soil with enough sunshinethick soil layer and good drainage.  
[Chemical composition]

It contains flavonoid: quercetin, quercetin-3-O-β-D-glucoside, 57-dihydroxy-8- methoxyflavone, myricetin, myricitrin [1], 6782-tetramethoxy-56′-dihydroxy-flavon, 57-dihydroxy-8-methoxyflavone, kaempferol, quercetin -3-O-rhamnoside [2];

Sterols: β-sitosterol[1], 3-hydroxy-56-epoxy-7-megastigmen-9-one[2];

organic acid: eicosanoic acid, ethylester [1], ethyl gallate[2];

policosanol: l-hexacosanol[1];

coumarins: scopoletin[2];

volatile oil: dioxane, 2-ethoxy-butane, bornyl acetate, acrophylline, 610-Dodecatrien-1-ol 3711-trimethyl-2, 12-Benzenedicarboxylic acid bis2-methoxyethyl ester.

 

 
[Pharmacological activities]

Ailantus Endocuticle has two-dimensional regulatory effects on intestinal smooth muscle and its effect is associated with Ca2+ in intracellular and extra-cellular region.

 

 
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Pharmacologic Actions:

Xue Zhihong, Dong Xiaoying, Journal of Nanhua University(Medical Edition), 2000,28(4): 356-357.