Please forgive the slight inconvenience in creating a new account. Due to juvenile delinquents spamming garbage to the site, we had to install a "Captcha", which can differentiate a spam bot from a human. Once you open your account, confirm it by returning the email, and identifying yourself, we will give you edit privileges. Just request them by leaving a message at click here.

Coptis

From English WikiChiro
Jump to: navigation, search
"Goldthread" redirects here. For a fine wire of gold, see gold thread.

Script error

Coptis
File:Coptis occidentalis.jpg
Coptis occidentalis flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
Order: Ranunculales
Family: Ranunculaceae
Genus: Coptis
Salisb.
Species

See text

Coptis (Goldthread or Canker Root) is a genus of between 10–15 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Asia and North America.

Species

Selected species
File:Coptis occidentalis2.jpg
Coptis occidentalis fruit

Uses

Coptis teeta is used as a medicinal herb in China and the Himalayan regions of India where it is used as a bitter tonic for dyspepsia.[1] It is also believed to help insomnia in Chinese herbology.[citation needed] The roots contain the bitter alkaloid berberine. The dried roots (goldthread) were commercially marketed in Canada until the 1950s or early 60s, to be steeped into a "tea" and swabbed onto areas affected by thrush (candidiasis) infection.[citation needed]

References

  1. ↑ Huang, J.; Long, C. (2007). "Coptis teeta-based agroforestry system and its conservation potential: A case study from northwest Yunnan". AMBIO 36 (4): 343–49. doi:10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[343:CTASAI]2.0.CO;2. 

External links

File:Coptis aspleniifolia.jpg
Coptis aspleniifolia leaves

Template:Alt-med-stub Template:Ranunculales-stub

Retrieved from "http://wikichiro.org/en/index.php?title=Coptis&oldid=15532"