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JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 108, Issue 1, Pages 46-53Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2006.04.022
Keywords
antitussive; Stemona tuberosa; radix stemonae; Baibu; alkaloids
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The root tubers of Stemona tuberosa, Stemona japonica and Stemona sessilifolia are recognized by the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China as authentic sources of the herb Radix Stemonae (Baibu). Careful anatomical analyses of these three species, whose identities were confirmed by flowering and fruiting samples, revealed that the root tubers of Stemona tuberosa could be distinguished from those of the other two species by the presence of scattered fibers in the cortex and pith and by the absence of thickened striations on the surface of velamen cells. HPLC analyses demonstrated that the total alkaloid profiles could be grouped into four types represented as the major component by stenine-type Stemona alkaloids such as tuberostemonine (4) and neotuberostemonine (3), or by non-stenine types such as croomine (1) and stemoninine (2). Nevertheless, all these samples demonstrated different degrees of antitussive properties in guinea pigs. These results suggested that non-stenine-type of Stemona alkaloids also contributed to the antitussive properties. The variations in chemical profiles among herb samples add difficulty in ensuring quality control in botanical products. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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