Pharmaceutical name: 英文藥名﹕ | Flos Daturae |
Latin botanical name: 拉丁文學名﹕ | Datura suaveolens, (大 花曼陀羅) Datura sanguinea Ruiz (紅 花曼陀羅) Datura metel L.(白曼陀羅) |
Pron. in Japanese: 日語發音﹕ | kalu-attana |
Pron. in Korean: 韓語發音﹕ | mantara |
Pron. in Cantonese: 粵音﹕ | maan4 to4 lo4 |
Other Names: 別名﹕ | nan yang jin hua 南洋金花﹐shan qie zi 山茄子﹐feng qie zi 鳳茄花﹐guangdong nao yang hua 廣東鬧洋花 (not the same as Rhododendron molle G. Don) ﹐feng qie hua 風茄花 |
Common Name: 英文名﹕ | Jimson weed, thorn apple, angel's trumpet, Downy thorn apple. |
Distribution: 產地﹕ | Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Anhui provinces of China 主產江蘇, 廣東﹐浙江﹐安徽。 |
Properties (characteristics)﹕ 性味﹕ | very toxic 有劇毒 |
Channels (meridians) entered: 歸經﹕ | |
| Medical functions: 藥理﹕ | The active ingredient scopolamine possesses the anesthesia effect, relaxes muscles, inhibit secretion of sweat, 東莨菪鹼有麻醉作用,可使肌肉鬆馳,抑制 汗腺分泌。 |
Actions & Indications: 主治﹕ | The flowers are being used in anaesthesia, as sedative and for inducing sleep. The leaves are being used in rheumatoid arthritis. The seeds are being used in promoting blood circulation and in ridding of pain. 花可麻醉止痛﹐鎮靜和催眠;葉可治風濕痛;種子能行血﹐袪風等。 |
Chemical ingredients: 化學成份﹕ | Principal active biochemicals are the primary tropane alkaloids: atropine, and scopolamine, hyoscyamine, atropine, apoatropine, daturine, tigloidine . The seeds and flowers contain the highest concentration of alkaloids but all parts of the plant are active. The total alkaloid is highest during the maturing period of the flowers and lower when the seeds are matured. The seeds also contain hemagglutinin. 其主要生物化學成份為顛茄烷生物鹼 (tropane alkaloids)。 主要含東莨菪鹼 (scopolamine﹐scopoletin),莨菪鹼 (hyoscyamine),其次有阿托品 (atropine),阿 朴阿托品(apoatropine),降 阿托品,曼陀 |