Plant Details

Accepted name:: Stemona japonica (Blume) Miq. [Stemonaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
baegbu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bai bu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
baibu	Other	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
byakubu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese stemona	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanese stemona root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
man sheng bai bu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
radix stemonae	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
sessile stemona root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
stemona	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
stemona root	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
stemonae radix	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
百部	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
蔓生百部	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root tuber	dried root tuber	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
root tuber	dried root tuber	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Root		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
root tuber	dried root tuber	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root tuber		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
root tuber	dried root tuber	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
root		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 4 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Helwingia argyi H.Lév. & Vaniot Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 6: 506 (1906).
Roxburghia japonica Blume Enum. Pl. Javae: 9 (1827).
Stemona argyi (H.Lév. & Vaniot) H.Lév. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 441 (1912).
Stemona ovata Nakai J. Jap. Bot. 10: 296 (1934).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Stemona japonica	Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Stemona japonica (BI.) Miq.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Stemona japonica (Bl.) Miq	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
Stemona japonica (Bl.) Miq.	Neuraminidase Inhib. Med. Pl. in Lingnan TCM (Liu et al., 2018) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Stemona japonica (Bl.)Miq.	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Stemona japonica (Blume) Miq.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Stemona japonica (Blume) Miquel	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Stemona japonica Franch. et Sav.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Stemona japonica Miquel	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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