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Lonicera japonica Thunb.: Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of an important traditional Chinese medicine

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Caprifoliaceae), a widely used traditional Chinese medicine, was known as Jin Yin Hua (Chinese: [Image: see text]), Ren Dong and Japanese honeysuckle. It was taken to treat the exopathogenic wind-heat, epidemic febrile diseases, sores, carbun...

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Autores principales: Shang, Xiaofei, Pan, Hu, Li, Maoxing, Miao, Xiaolou, Ding, Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ireland Ltd. 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2011.08.016
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author Shang, Xiaofei
Pan, Hu
Li, Maoxing
Miao, Xiaolou
Ding, Hong
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Pan, Hu
Li, Maoxing
Miao, Xiaolou
Ding, Hong
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description ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Caprifoliaceae), a widely used traditional Chinese medicine, was known as Jin Yin Hua (Chinese: [Image: see text]), Ren Dong and Japanese honeysuckle. It was taken to treat the exopathogenic wind-heat, epidemic febrile diseases, sores, carbuncles and some infectious diseases. At the same time, Lonicera japonica could be used as healthy food, cosmetics, ornamental groundcover, and so on. AIM OF THE REVIEW: The present paper reviewed the ethnopharmacology, the biological activities, toxicology and phytochemistry of Lonicera japonica. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Information on Lonicera japonica was gathered via the Internet (using Google Scholar, Baidu Scholar, Elsevier, ACS, Medline Plus, CNKI and Web of Science) and libraries. Additionally, information also was obtained from some local books and brilliant scholars on ethnopharmacology. RESULTS: More than 140 chemical compounds have been isolated, and the main compositions are essential oils, organic acids and flavones, etc. Lonicera japonica and its active principles possess wide pharmacological actions, such as anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidative and hepatoprotective activities. CONCLUSIONS: As an important traditional Chinese medicine, further studies on Lonicera japonica can lead to the development of new drugs and therapeutics for various diseases, and how to utilize it better should be paid more attentions.
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spelling pubmed-71270582020-04-08 Lonicera japonica Thunb.: Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of an important traditional Chinese medicine Shang, Xiaofei Pan, Hu Li, Maoxing Miao, Xiaolou Ding, Hong J Ethnopharmacol Article ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: Lonicera japonica Thunb. (Caprifoliaceae), a widely used traditional Chinese medicine, was known as Jin Yin Hua (Chinese: [Image: see text]), Ren Dong and Japanese honeysuckle. It was taken to treat the exopathogenic wind-heat, epidemic febrile diseases, sores, carbuncles and some infectious diseases. At the same time, Lonicera japonica could be used as healthy food, cosmetics, ornamental groundcover, and so on. AIM OF THE REVIEW: The present paper reviewed the ethnopharmacology, the biological activities, toxicology and phytochemistry of Lonicera japonica. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Information on Lonicera japonica was gathered via the Internet (using Google Scholar, Baidu Scholar, Elsevier, ACS, Medline Plus, CNKI and Web of Science) and libraries. Additionally, information also was obtained from some local books and brilliant scholars on ethnopharmacology. RESULTS: More than 140 chemical compounds have been isolated, and the main compositions are essential oils, organic acids and flavones, etc. Lonicera japonica and its active principles possess wide pharmacological actions, such as anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antiviral, antioxidative and hepatoprotective activities. CONCLUSIONS: As an important traditional Chinese medicine, further studies on Lonicera japonica can lead to the development of new drugs and therapeutics for various diseases, and how to utilize it better should be paid more attentions. Elsevier Ireland Ltd. 2011-10-31 2011-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7127058/ /pubmed/21864666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2011.08.016 Text en Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Lonicera japonica Thunb.: Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of an important traditional Chinese medicine
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title_full_unstemmed Lonicera japonica Thunb.: Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of an important traditional Chinese medicine
title_short Lonicera japonica Thunb.: Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry and pharmacology of an important traditional Chinese medicine
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127058/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2011.08.016
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