Sanchi-Ginseng

Matsuura, H., Kasai, R., Tanaka, O., Saruwatari, Y., Fuwa, T., and Zhou, J. (1983). Further studies on dammarane-saponins of Sanchi-ginseng. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 31,2281-2287. 

Panax notoginseng notoginseng, sanchi ginseng South West China... 

Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer (ginseng) and its two congeners, P. notoginseng (Burk.) F. H. Chen(Sanchi ginseng), and P. quinquefolium L. (American ginseng), are well-known medicinal plants which have been widely used in the world. For years, new Pattax spp. have been an objective of the search for similar sources of the valuable medicine. 

P.notoginseng (Burk.) F. H. Chen (Chinese name Sanchi-Ginseng or Tienchi, cultivated in Yunnan, China but the locality of the wild specimen is still obscure.)... 

Gstirner and Vogt described isolation and amino acid composition of peptides of Ginseng roots (150, 151) and recently Okuda etal, reported presence of an anti-lipolytic peptide like compound in Red Ginseng (152). Structures of these compounds are still unknown. Kosuge etal. recently isolated the neurotoxin P-N-oxalo-L-a,P-diaminopropionic acid as the hemostatic principle of Sanchi-Ginseng (153). 

Zhou, J., M. Wu, S. Taniyasu, H. Besso, O. Tanaka, Y. Saruwatari, and T. Fuwa Dammarane-saponins of Sanchi-Ginseng, Roots of Panax notoginseng (Burk.) F. H. Chen (Araliaceae) Structures of New Saponins, Notoginsenosides-Rl and -R2, and Identification of Ginsenosides-Rg2 and -Rhi. Chem. Pharm. Bull. (Japan) 29, 2844 (1981). 

Taniyasu, S., O. Tanaka, T. Yang, and J. Zhou Dammarane Saponins of Flower Buds of Panax notoginseng (Sanchi-Ginseng). Planta Medica 44, 124 (1982). 

Kosuge, T., M. Yokota, and A. Ochiai Studies on Antihemorrhagic Principles in Crude Drugs for Hemostatis. II. On the Antihemorrhagic Principle of Sanchi Ginseng Radix. Yakugaku Zasshi 101, 629 (1981). 

Common/vernacular names Sanqi, sanchi ginseng, tianqi, tianchi, shen sanqi, tian sanqi, and renshen sanqi. 

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