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Botanical Name |
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Arundo donax Linn. |
English
Name |
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Giant River Reed, Danubian |
Synonym(s) |
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Arundo maximaForskål. |
Family |
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Poaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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A tall, robust, erect, branched, perennial cane-like grass, up to 8 m in height and 1-4 cm in diam. Rhizomes almost bulbous, creeping, thick, forming knotty masses; culms hollow, with walls 2-7 mm thick, multi-noded, internodes varying in length from 12 to 30 cm, outer tissue siliceous, very hard, brittle, with a smooth glossy surface that turns pale golden yellow when mature; leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, linear-lanceolate, with persistent leafsheaths; panicles, 30-60 cm long, erect, plume-like, silky hairy, cream-coloured or brown, spikelets 8-15 cm long, 2-7 flowered; fruits oblong. |
| Herb Effects |
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Sudorific, diuretic and anti-lactant (rhizome); antigalactagogue, depurative, diaphoretic, diuretic, emollient, hypertensive, hypotensive, and sudorific (root infusion). |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Bufotenidine and dehydrobufotenine (rhizome); alpha-amyrin acetate, bufotenine, bufotenidine, campesterol, dehydro-bufotenine, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, donaxerin, friedelin, gramine, gramine methohydroxide, lupeol (anticancer), 5-metlioxy-N-methyl-tryptamine, sitosterol (antitumor), stigmasterol, triacontane and triacontanol. |
| Chemistry
of Active Ingredients |
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Name |
CAS# |
IUPAC Name |
Formula |
Structure |
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| Bufotenidine |
487-91-2 |
3-(2-trimethylammoni
oethyl)-1H-indol-5-o
late |
C13H18N2O |
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| Dehydrobufotenine |
17232-69-8 |
Not Available |
C12H15N2O+ |
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| alpha-Amyrin acetate |
863-76-3 |
(4,4,6a,6b,8a,11,12,
14b-octamethyl-1,2,3
,4,4a,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,
8a,9,10,11
,12,12a,
14,14a,14b-icosahydr
opicen-3-yl)
ethanoate |
C32H52O2 |
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| Bufotenine |
487-93-4 |
3-(2-dimethylaminoet
hyl)-1H-indol-5-ol |
C12H16N2O |
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| Campesterol |
474-62-4 |
17-(5,6-dimethylhept
an-2-yl)-10,13-dimet
hyl-2,3,4,7,8,9,11,1
2,14,15,16
,17-dodecahydro-1H-c
yclopenta[a]phenanth
ren-3-ol |
C28H48O |
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| N,N-dimethyltryptamine |
68677-25-8 |
2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-N,
N-dimethyl-ethanamin
e |
C12H16N2 |
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| Friedelin |
559-74-0 |
4,4a,6a,6b,8a,11,11,
14a-octamethyl-2,4,5
,6,6a,7,8,9,10,12,12
a,13,14,14
b-tetrad
ecahydro-1H-picen-3-
one |
C30H50O |
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| Gramine |
87-52-5 |
N-(1H-indol-3-ylmeth
yl)-N-methyl-methana
mine |
C11H14N2 |
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| Lupeol |
Not Available |
Not Available |
C30H50O |
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| Sitosterol |
5779-62-4 |
17-(5-ethyl-6-methyl
-heptan-2-yl)-10,13-
dimethyl-2,3,4,7,8,9
,11,12,14,
15,16,17
-dodecahydro-1H-cycl
openta[a]phenanthren
-3-ol |
C29H50O |
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| Stigmasterol |
4736-55-4 |
17-(4-ethyl-1,5-dime
thyl-hex-2-enyl)-10,
13-dimethyl-1,2,4,5,
6,7,8,9,10
,11,12,1
3,14,15,16,17-hexade
cahydrocyclopenta[a]
phenanthren-3-one |
C29H48O |
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| Triacontane |
638-68-6 |
triacontane |
C30H62 |
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Pharmacology
| Medicinal Use |
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For dropsy and cancer(rhizome); for stomach ache (roots) |
| Reference |
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 Sharma PV. Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
Bhattacharya SK. Sanyal AK. Neuromuscular blocking activity of bufotenidine isolated from Arundo donax L. Naturwissenschaften 1972 Dec;59(12):650-1. |
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