Acanthopanax senticosus
(Rupr. et Maxim.) Harms
Latin Name: Acanthopanax senticosus (Rupr. et
Maxim.) Harms
English Name: Manyprickle
Acathopanax, Many Prickle Acanthopanax, Multiprickeled Acanthopanax, Siberian
Ginseng
Family & Genus:
Araliaceae, Acanthopanax
Description: Deciduous
shrubs, up to 2m. Stem densely covered with slender barb. Leaves palmate and
alternate with petioles 3.5-12cm long, glabrous or with sparse hairs; no thorns
or fine thorns; petiolule 0.5-2cm long, brown napped; oblong to elliptic-obovate;
5 leaflets, 3 or 4 rarely, 5-13cm long, 2-7cm wide, apex acute or acuminate,
base cuneate, light green below, dense light brown napped along vein, dark
green above, glabrous or napped, margin serrate or double serrate. Umbel
terminal, solitary or 2-6 fuses into panicle, peduncle 8cm long, pedicel 1-2cm
long; green calyx combines with ovary, lobes 5; ovate petals 5, yellow with
purple; stamens 5; ovary 5, style small and cylindrical. Dark purple berry-like
drupe, nearly spherical with persistent style. Flat seeds 4-6, crescent shaped.
Flowering June to July, fruiting July to September.
Distribution: Growing in miscellaneous forests of
coniferous and broadleaved trees, under or by deciduous broad-leaved forest
edges at altitude below 2,000m. Can be cultivated. Distributed in Heilongjiang,
Liaoning, Jilin, or Shanxi, Hebei and etc. The medicinal materials are mainly
produced in Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shaanxi, Hebei and etc.
Part Used: Medical
part: roots, rhizome or stems. Chinese name: Ciwujia.
Harvest &
Processing: Excavated in spring and autumn, removed soil and sun-dried.
Chemistry: Mainly contains glycoside (e.g.
Eleutheroside).
Pharmacology: Anti-fatigue,
anti-anoxia, anti-aging and anti-tumor, blood-lipid-regulating, adaptivity-improving,
anti-arrhythmic, immune-system regulating.
Properties &
Actions: Sweet, little bitter, warm. Sweet,
little bitter, warm. Tonifying qi and fortifying the spleen, tonifying the
kidney and calming mental state.
Indications &
Usage: Used for renal
insufficiency and physical weakness, asdthenic splenonephro-yang, relative
weakness in the loins and knees, weariness and debilitation, insomnia and
dreaminess, delayed walking ability in children, etc. Oral administration:
decocting,6-15g, or made in pills or powder or made as medicinal liquor.
Examples:
1. Treat infantile
paralysis and weakness of bones and tendons, retard walking: manyprickle
acathopanax 9g, India madder, papaya, achyranthis radix, 6g each. Decoct in
water for oral dose.
2. Treat rheumatic
pain: manyprickle acathopanax 15g. Decoct in water, or add into yellow wine
as infused decoction.
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