Berberis root

In dyeing, berberine is used in form of a decoction of the berberis roots. On animal fibres it is dyed from a neutral bath, and on cotton it is fixed with tannic acid. It is almost exclusively used for dyeing leather. 

Yellow Berberry root Berberis vulgaris bush... 

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. 

Pakistanamine (63), which had originally been found in Berberis baluchis-tanica,45 has now been obtained from the seeds of B. julianae46 and from the roots of B. calliobotrys.5... 

Berberis, Mahonia spp. (Berberidaceae), Jateorrhiza palmata (Menispermaceae) Papaveraceae Alangium lamarckii (Alangiaceae) [bark, root, seed], Cephaelis ipecacuanha (ipecacuanha),... 

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... 

Rhizome and roots Berberis species of Western North the Sect. America... 

Berberine has been found in many plants. The largest quantities are found in Calumba roots Cocculm palmatus) [19], and in the roots of Berberis vulgaris, Linn. [20]. The latter is the only one of importance in dyeing. 

Berberis aristata Chatra Berberidaceae Shrub Root Eye disease... 

Derivation From the root of Berberis vulgaris or Hydrastis canadensis. 

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. 

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). 

Berberidis radids cortex Barberry root bark Berberis vulgaris T. 

Mahonia bark, grape root Mahooia aquifoliiim (PURSH) NU rX (syn. Berberis aquif.) Berberidaceae... 

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. 

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

Ivanovska, N., Philipov, S. (1996). Study on the anti-inflammatory action of Berberis vulgaris root extract, alkaloid fractions and pure alkaloids. Int. J. Immunopharmacol., 18(10), 553-561. 

Ye ilada E, Kiipeli E (2002) Berberis crataegina DC. root exhibits potent anti-inflammatory, analgesic and febri-fuge effects in mice and rats. J Ethnopharmacol 79 237-248... 

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