Euodia Fruit
Market name:呉茱萸 Photo location:Museum of Materia Medica, Inst. of Nat. Med. TMPW No.:1778 |
Plant name:Euodia rutaecarpa Photo location:Kyoto Pref., Japan Photo date:1993 Photographer:H. Fujino |
Synonym | |
Latin name | Euodiae Fructus |
Botanical source: Family name | Rutaceae |
Botanical source: Plant name | - Euodia officinalis Dode (IPNI:773085-1) - Euodia bodinieri Dode (IPNI:772935-1) - Euodia rutaecarpa Hooker filius et Thomson (IPNI:773127-1) |
Part used | Ripe fruit |
Empirical criteria for quality selection | Good one is black in color and has strong pungency and bitterness. (TN) |
Constituents | Other aliphatic and related compounds: Goshuyic acid Monoterpenoids: Ocimene Triterpenoids: Limonin (=Evodin), Rutaevin, Evodol Flavanones & Dihydroflavonols: E. rutaecarpa: Evodioside B (leaf) Alkaloids: Evodiamine, Rutaecarpine, Hydroxyevodiamine (=Rhetsinine), Evocarpine, N,N-Dimethyl-5-methoxytryptamine, NMethylanthranylamide, Synephrine, Higenamine Purine derivatives: Cyclic GMP Other: E. rutaecarpa: 6α-Acetoxy-5-epilimonin, 6β-Acetoxy-5-epilimonin |
Pharmacological effects | Increase in the blood pressure, accelerated respiration, increase in the blood flow (fraction of alcohol extraction), analgesia, rising temperature (evodiamine, rutaecarpine), inducing labor pains, hemostasis, central excitation (β-indolethyl-amine), hallucination (N,N-dimethyl-5-methoxytryptamine), adrenergic action, cardiotonic action (synephrine, hygenamine). |
Indications | As a stomachic with warm nature, painkiller, diuretic, for relieving vomiting, it is applied to treat headache due to rising of noxious fluid, nausea, a feeling of stuffiness in the chest, abdominal pain due to cold of deficiency type, poor circulation and chilblains. It is used as insecticide and bath agent. |
Diseases | Headache, Nausea, Vomitting, Upper abdominal pain, Coldness of limbs, Lower abdominal pain, Menorrhalgia, Extension of menstrual cycle, Full stomach, Diarrhea, Cold-natured, Chilblain, Stomatitis |
Formulas | unkeito , en'nenhangeto , kyutsugan , keimeisankabukuryo , goshuyuto , teikiin , tokishigyakukagoshuyushokyoto , henseishinkiin , hontonto (chugoho) |
Meridian tropism | Liver, Stomach, Spleen, Kidney |
Property | Extremely hot |
Flavor | Acrid/pungent, Bitter |
Classification in "Shen-non Ben-cao Jing" | Middle |
TCM: Classification | Drugs for dispelling internal cold |
TCM: Medicinal effects | To dissipate cold and relieve pain, downbear counterflow to check vomiting, assist yang to check diarrhea. Used for reverting yin headache, abdominal pain caused by cold abdominal colic, cold-dampness tinea pedis, menstruation with abdominal pain, distending pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, vomiting, acid regurgitation, diarrhea before dawn. |
Remarks | Listed in the Japanese Pharmacopoeia 18th ed. |
References | TN: T. Namba & Y. Tsuda ed., Outline of Pharmacognosy, a Textbook, 3rd ed., Nankodo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1998. |
DNA sequences of medicinal plants
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