Plant Details

Accepted name:: Gynochthodes officinalis (F.C.How) Razafim. & B.Bremer [Rubiaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
ba ji	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ba ji tian	Other	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)
ba kích	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
bajitian	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
bājǐtiān	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
indian mulberry	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
medicinal indian mulberry	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
morinda	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
morinda root	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
morindae officinalis radix	Pharmaceutical	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
morindae radix	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
noni fruit	Other	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
radix morindae officinalis	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
巴戟天	Other	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) 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) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
root	dried root	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
root	dried root	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Radix		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
root	dried root	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
root, fruit		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
Roots		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
root	dried root	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
root		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
root		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
root		Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014)
root		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Morinda officinalis F.C.How Acta Phytotax. Sin. 7: 326 (1958).
Morinda officinalis var. hirsuta F.C.How Acta Phytotax. Sin. 7: 328 (1958).

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Gynochthodes officinalis (F. C. How) Razafim. & B. Bremer	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Gynochthodes officinalis (F.C.How) Razafim. & B.Bremer	WHODrug Herbal Substances, Suppl. 2021 (WHO-UMC, 2021) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Morinda officinalis	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Morinda officinalis F. C. How	Hong Kong Chinese Materia Med. Standards (2014) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Morinda officinalis F.C. How	WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Morinda officinalis F.C.How	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
Morinda officinalis How	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Morinda officinalis How.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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