Plant Details

Accepted name:: Aralia cordata Thunb. [Araliaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aralia rhizome	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
araliae cordatae rhizoma	Pharmaceutical	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
japanese spikenard	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
udo	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
ドクカツ	Other	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
九眼独活	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
rhizome		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019)
rhizome		Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Aralia cordata var. sachalinensis (Regel) Nakai J. Arnold Arbor. 5: 29 (1924).
Aralia edulis Siebold Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 12: 45 (1830).
Aralia lucida Hassk. Flora 25(2, Beibl.): 30 (1842).
Aralia nudicaulis Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 870 (1826), nom. illeg.
Aralia nutans Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 376 (1878).
Aralia racemosa f. sachalinensis (Regel) Regel ex Voss Vilm. Ill. Blumengärtn., ed. 3, 1: 403 (1894).
Aralia racemosa var. sachalinensis Regel Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1864(Suppl.): 22 (1865).
Aralia sachaliensis (Regel) K.Koch Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 14: 131 (1871).
Aralia schmidtii Pojark. in V.L.Komarov, Fl. URSS 16: 588 (1950).
Aralia taiwaniana Y.C.Liu & F.Y.Lu Quart. J. Chin. Forest. 9(2): 136 (1976).
Dimorphanthus edulis (Siebold & Zucc.) Miq. Comm. Phytogr.: 95 (1840).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Aralia cordata	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Aralia cordata Thunb.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Aralia cordata Thunberg	Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 16th edn. (2012) Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 17th edn. (incl. Suppl. I and II) (2016-2019) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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