What is Rubia cordifolia and Rubia Root?Characters,Phytochemicals and Applications.

Contents

• Botanical Info of Rubia cordifolia and Rubia Root.
• Rubia cordifolia Plant Descriptions and Source.
• Characters and Identification:Rubia cordifolia Root.
• Rubia Root Constituents and Phytochemicals.
• Archeology and Classical Note:Rubia Root.
• Pharmacological Study:Rubia root and extract.
• Rubia Root Toxicity and Safety Info.
• Functions and Applications Guide of Rubia Root.
• Rubia Root Clinical Applications and Report.
• Research Update:Rubia Root.

Rubia cordifolia Plant Descriptions and Source.:

Rubia cordifolia,perennial climbing herbaceous.Root a few to 10, purple or orange-red skin. Stem four-vector shape,small inverted thorns surfaced. Leaf four crossing, leaf shape changes, oval, triangle-shaped oval, wide oval to narrow oval, 2-6 cm long, 1-4 cm wide,a sharp tip,heart-shaped,below and along the veins are spinibarbus petiole, the entire edge of a pulse 5. Poly cone-shaped umbrella inflorescence; spent small, yellow-white, 5; calyx not obvious; Corolla convergence with a diameter of about 4 mm, 5 bifida;stamens 5, the students corolla tube; ovary-under, two rooms, no hair. Berries spherical, 5-6 mm in diameter, red to black after. Flowering from June to September,fruit from August to October period.

 Available from allover China,spread to Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu , Qinghai, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan,Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan and other provinces. Growing in the slope side or Goubian rock in the bushes.

 This species wide distribution, the external morphology more variations, in the past it and scholars often distinguish species or some variant. Because we are not fully grasp it with our neighbouring regions similar to some kinds of materials and are difficult to make a correct judgement and therefore still suspense from the majority of our plants and pharmaceutical literature, it will be handled as a generalized species.
 

 Other species used similar as Rubia cordifolia:

 1.Rubia schuman-niana Pritz,available from Sichuan,Yunnan,Guang Xi.
 2.Rubia lanccolata Hayata.
 3.Rubia oncotricha Hand.-Mazz.,available from Yunnan.
 4.Rubia podantha Diels,shape like above one,available from Yunan LiJiang,Da Li area.
 5.Rubia membranacea (Franch.)Diels,available from Sichuan,Yunnan,south of ShaanXi.
 6.Rubia alata Wall.available from Sichuan and GuiZhou.
 7.Rubia sylvatica Nakai,available from north east.
 8.Rubia truppeliana Loes,available from ShanDong.
 9.Rubia wallichiana Dence.available from Yunnan.
 10.Rubia ovatifolia Z.Y. Zhang,available from Sichuan and south of ShaanXi.
 11.Rubia tinctorum L.available from Xinjiang province.

Reference:

• 1.What is Rubia cordifolia and Rubia Root?Characters,Phytochemicals and Applications.

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♣ last edit date:27th,Oct.2010.