Common name: Chinese Moonseed
Family: Menispermaceae
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Country of Origin: E. Asia - China, Japan.
Description:
Uses: Roots contain sinomenine, an alkaloid traditionally used in herbal medicine in these countries, as a treatment for rheumatism and arthritis.<sup>2</sup>
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Source: Bonn BG - Index Seminum
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Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eudicots
- Order: Ranunculales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Menispermaceae
- SubFamily: Menispermoideae
- Tribe: Menispermeae
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References:
- Plants For A Future Website
- Wikipedia entry for sinomenine
- Wefferling, K.M., Hoot, S.B. and Neves, S.S.; Phylogeny and fruit evolution in Menispermaceae; Am. J. Bot. May 2013 vol. 100 no. 5 883-905
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