Barberry root

A number of yellow dyes were known in antiquity weld and saffron seem to have been the most widely used, but barberry root, turmeric, Persian berries, and safflower have also been identified in ancient fibers. Weld, probably the oldest European-known yellow dye, is derived from the herbaceous plant Roseda luteola, which is indigenous to central Europe. The dye is distributed throughout the entire plant, although it is concentrated in the upper... 

Barberry root is a yellow-red dye that has been used since prehistoric times it is extracted with hot water from the stems, bark, and roots of Berberis vulgaris, a bush that grows indigenously in Europe as well as in North America. The coloring matter in the dye is the organic compound berberine. Silk and wool can be dyed directly with barberry root, yielding a yellow color however, for dyeing cotton, a mordant is required to attach the dye to the substrate fibers. 

Berberis amurensis Rupr. B. poiretii Schneid. B. sibirica Pall. B. soulieana . K. Schneid. Xiao Yeh (Chinese barberry) (root) Berberine, berbamine, palamatine, jatrorrhizine, oxycanthine.33 Antibacterial, promotes leukocytosis, choleretic. 

BARBERRY ROOT, Berberidis radix is the root of Berberis vulgaris, L., family Berberidaceae, containing 3% alkaloids with berberine, jateorhizine and palmitine as the main constitutents. It stimulates the smooth muscles and empties the gallbladder but has no choleretic effect. 

Berberine. An alkaloid crystallizing in fine yellow needles sUghtly soluble in water, extracted from Barberry root. 

Berberidis radids cortex Barberry root bark Berberis vulgaris T. 

The LD50 of orally administered barberry root extract fraction (containing 80% berbamine and three other isoquinoline alkaloids) in mice is 520 mg/kg, and in rats is 1280 mg/ kg (Manolov et al. 1985). The LD50 of orally administered barberry root in mice was determined to be equivalent to 2600 mg/kg of the powdered root (Peychev 2005). 

Traditional use Decoction of the flowering herb is used for gastric diseases, malaria, toothaches, bleeding gums, and as an oral rinse, as well as is applied externally to treat abscesses and tumors. Syrup, made by boiling gentian and barberry roots for a long time, is recommended for side pains, rheumatic pain and chest pains (Khalmatov 1964). 

Some herbs are contraindicated when pregnant because they are thought to have an influence on the uterus. These include barberry, bloodroot, calamus, cascara sagrada, fennel, goldenseal, juniper, lavender, licorice root, male fern, mayapple,... 

Barberry (pipperidge bush) is a vernacular name for Berberis vulgaris (the European barberry), but it can also refer to Mahonia aquifolium and Mahonia nervosa. In the USA only the Mahonia species have had official status as a source of barberry, but Berberis vulgaris is said to serve similar medicinal purposes and to contain similar principles. Its root bark yields the quaternary isoquinoline alkaloid berberine and several other tertiary and quaternary alkaloids. Berberine is also found... 

Barberries grow in sun or partial shade in-d prefer well-drained soil. They require lit- Je care and tolerate even severe pruning. Set out container-grown or bare-root plants in spring or fall. 

For the record, Hoxsey s herbal mixture for internal cancers included the following (Moss, 1992, p. 161 Walters, 1993, p. 97) potassium iodide, cascara (Rham-ms), licorice (Glycyrrhiza), red clover (Trifolium), burdock root (Arctium), barberry (Berberis), stillingia root (Stillingia), pokeroot (Phytolacca), prickly ash bark (Zan-thoxylum), and buckthorn bark (Rhamnus). All are listed in Hartwell (1982), and some occur in other herbal remedies for cancer. It has been commented that orthodox scientific research has by now identified antitumor activity in most of the plants used by Hoxsey (Walters, 1993, p. 97). 

Berberis. Holly-leaved barberry Oregon grape root mountain grape. Dried rhizome and roots of species of section of Mahonia DC. of the genus Berberis L., Berberida-ceae. Habit, U.S. and British Columbia. Constit, Berberine, berbemine, oxyacanthine, phytosterol, sugar. 

Clinical trials have shown its reliable effectiveness in combatting dysentery-type diseases. Empiric clinicians also report success in this area, one clinician in Boulder using it successfully with the particularly virulent food-borne E. coli 0157 H7, which causes bloody diarrhea. In this instance, the E. coli infection, from contaminated apple juice, was treated by the use of three berberine-containing herbs (goldenseal, barberry, and Oregon grape root) in an equal-parts tincture combination 20 drops in water every 2 or 3 hours. All bleeding stopped within 24 hours. 

Topical infections usnea, coptis, Oregon grape root Mahonia spp.), barberry (Berberis vulgaris). 

Most safety concerns reported for barberry are based on studies of the compound berberine and other alkaloids. Data regarding isolated compounds may not apply directly to products or extracts made from the root or root bark. 

OCN creeping barberry Oregon grapeholly Oregon barberry Part root... 

Dzhumabaev TZ, Ibragimov II, LutfuUin KL (1970) Effect of the sum of alkaloids in the root and bark of the stem of the oblong barberry on the blood coagulation system. Meditsinskii Zh Uzbekistana (8) 22-25... 

Berberidaceae)—B. vulgaris, common barberry, B. aquifolium or Mahonia aquifolium, Oregon grape root and B. aristata, Indian barberry. 

The isoquinoline (9-44) or benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline skeleton, respectively, can be found in the tetracyclic alkaloid berberine, also called umbellatin (9-45). Together with related alkaloids, berberine occurs in all parts of the European barberry shrub Berberis vulgaris, Berberidaceae) as the main component, especially in the cortex, but also in leaves and immature fruits. Barberry alkaloids are carriers of the characteristic yellow colour of barberry wood and bark, but do not practically influence the colour of edible berries. The mildly poisonous cortex of the roots, containing 12-15% of alkaloids, was used in the past as a drug for medical purposes (the bark of stem contains 5.5-8% and the bark of branches about 3.5% of the mixture of alkaloids). The main components of the root bark are quaternary bases berberine (9-45), jatrorrhizine, columbamine, pahnatine (9-46) and tertiary bases oxyacanfhine (9-47) andberbamine (9-48). 

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