Fritillaria verticillata

Fritillaria verticillata Willd. China Fritilline, fritillarine, verticine, verticinine, peimine, peiminine, peimisine, peiniphine, peimidine, peimilidine, propeimin, verticine, verticinine.33 Cause bronchodilatation and inhibition of mucosal secretions. Antitussive, stimulate uterine and intestinal contractions. 

Ephedra distachya, Fritillaria verticillata, Justicia adhatoda, Lobelia siphilitica, Medicago sativa, Nicotiana tabacum, Pedicularis palustris, P. canadensis, Physalis alkekengi, P franchetti, P pubescene, Picrasma excelsa, Swertia chirata, Valeriana officinalis, Veratrum viride, Verbena officinalis, Viscum album... 

Solanidine and hapepunine have been isolated from Fritillaria verticillata, together with two new alkaloids, baimonidine (33a) and isoverticine (33b). The structures indicated were assigned mainly on the basis of the H and 13C n.m.r. spectra of the new alkaloids and were confirmed by the preparation of these alkaloids from verticinone (33c) by standard methods.70 The 13C n.m.r. spectra of a number of other cevanine derivatives have been reported.70 Fritillarine and a new alkaloid, C27H4303N, have been isolated from F. karelinii.71... 

Fritillaria verticillata var. thunhergii (Liliaceae) is a perennial herb that grows wild in the People s Republic of China. The plant is cultivated in Japan mainly as an ornamental. The dried bulbs are known as baimo in Kampo medicine and are used as an antitussive, as an expectorant, for hemostasis and lactogenesis, and as an antipyretic. 

Fritillaria anheunensis, F. collicola, F. maximowiczii, F. roylei, F. thunbergii, F. ussuriensis, F. verticillata... 

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