Eleutherococcus senticosus (Rupr. & Maxim.) Maxim.

Eleutherococcus senticosus (Rupr. & Maxim.) Maxim.

Latin Name: Eleutherococcus senticosus (Rupr. & Maxim.) Maxim.

Synonym Name: Acanthopanax asperatus Franch. & Sav.; Acanthopanax senticosus (Rupr. & Maxim.) Harms; Acanthopanax senticosus var. brevistamineus S.F.Gu; Acanthopanax senticosus f. inermis (Kom.) Harms; Acanthopanax senticosus f. subinermis (Regel) Harms; Acanthopanax senticosus var. subinermis (Regel) Kitag.; Eleutherococcus asperatus (Franch. & Sav.) Koidz.; Eleutherococcus senticosus f. inermis Kom.; Eleutherococcus senticosus var. subinermis Regel; Eleutherococcus senticosus f. subinermis Regel; Hedera senticosa Rupr. & Maxim.

English Name: Manyprickle Acathopanax, Many Prickle Acanthopanax, Multiprickeled Acanthopanax, Siberian Ginseng

Family & Genus: Araliaceae, Acanthopanax

Description: Shrubs, to 6 m tall. Branches with dense to scattered, slender, terete, bristlelike prickles. Petiole 3-12 cm, slender, sometimes with fine prickles; petiolule of central leaflet (0.6-)1.2-2 cm, usually brownish pubescent; leaflets (3-)5, elliptic-obovate or oblong, 5-13 × 3-7 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent on veins, adaxially with scattered hairs, secondary veins 6 or 7 pairs, conspicuous on both surfaces, base broadly cuneate, margin sharply biserrate, apex shortly acuminate or acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, a solitary or compound umbel, borne on leafy shoots, usually with 2-6 umbels together; peduncles 5-7 cm, glabrous; pedicels 1-2 cm, glabrous or slightly pubescent at base. Calyx subentire or with 5 inconspicuous teeth, glabrous. Corolla purple-yellow. Ovary 5-carpellate; styles united into a column. Fruit ovoid-globose, ca. 8 mm; styles persistent, ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug-Oct. 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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