Table 1.
The traditional and clinical uses of Polygonum multiflorum in China.
| Preparation name | Compositions | Used | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ren Shen Zai Zao pill | Scrophulariae Radix, Ephedrae Herba, Cyperi Rhizome, Angelicae Dahuricae Radix, Polygonum multiflorum, Rehmannia Radix Preparata, Asari Radix et Rhizome and others. | Curing apoplexia, facial paralysis and hemiplegia. | “Beijing traditional Chinese medicine prescription anthology”, page 10. |
| Chan Ling pellet | Angelica Sinensis, Atractylodes Rhizome, Radix Auckladiae, Polygonum multiflorum, Radix Auckladiae, Monkshood Root, Rhizome Ligustici, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Angelicae Dahuricae Radix and others. | Curing woman postpartum lochiometra, thoracic and abdominal distension, stabbing hypochondrium pain. | “Beijing traditional Chinese medicine prescription anthology”, page 194. |
| Duo Zi ingots | Lanceolata, Eucommia, Herba Cistanche, Common Anemarrhena Rhizome, Phellodendron Bark, Radix Polygala Tenuifolia, Alisma Orientale, Chinese Yam Root, Glycyrrhiza Uralensis Fisch, Polygonum multiflorum and others. | Curing deficiency of kidney qi, listlessmess and ache of waist. | “Beijing traditional Chinese medicine prescription anthology”, page 114. |
| Anti-asthma pill | Seeds of Brassica Alba, Folium Perillae, Lilium Brownie, Apricot Kernel, Radish Seed, Polygonum multiflorum, Radix Asparagi, Fritillaria Cirrhosa, Roots of Common Anemarrhena, Pinellia Ternate, Angelica Sinensis and others. | Curing deficiency syndrome of the lung, cough, dyspnea with cough and Phlegm | “Beijing traditional Chinese medicine prescription anthology”, page 139. |
| Qi Bao Mei Ran pellet | Red Polygonum multiflorum, White Polygonum multiflorum, Red Poria Cocos, White Poria Cocos, Achyranthes Root, Angelica Sinensis, Barbary Wolfberry, Cuscuta Chinensis Lam and Fructus Psoralea. | Curing leukotrichia, lipsotrichia, dysgenesis, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia, teeth shake, liver and kidney deficiencies | “Compendium of Materia Medica”, qing dynasty, vol. 18. |
| Li Yin He Zhong decotion | Rehmanniae Radix, Radix Glehniae, Cortex Lycii Radicis, Concha Ostreae, Polygonum multiflorum, White Peony Root, Magnolia Officinalis, Cortex Moutan, Artemisia Annua, Fructus Setariae Germinates and Fructus Hordei Germinatus. | Curing children with rickets. | “Bi Hua Yi Jing”, qing dynasty, vol. 3. |
| Pei Tu Yang Yin decotion | Prepared Polygonum multiflorum, Salvia Militiorrhiza, Hyacinth Bean, Fructus Setariae Germinates, White Peony Root, Plantain Herb, Lotusty and Porcine Kidney. | Curing consumptive disease, apocleisis, phlegmatic, spontaneous perspiration, night sweat and spermatorrhea. | “Bu Ju Ji”, qing dynasty, batch 1, vol. 10. |
| Li Pi Yi Ying decotion | Prepared Polygonum multiflorum, Sea Cucumber, Lotusty, Black Soybean, Rhizoma Dioscorea and Hyacinth Bean. | Curing insufficiency of the spleen, insufficiency of blood, fever due to yin deficiency. | “Bu Ju Ji”, qing dynasty, batch 1, vol. 10. |
| Qing Ji decotion | Pinellia Ternate, Grassleaved Sweetflag Rhizome, Sophora Flavescens Ait, Linseed, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Atractylodes Rhizome, Radix Angelica Sinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, Rehmanniae Radix, Dried Ginger, Sixpetal Clematis Root and Carthamus Tinctorius. | Curing scabies and familial benign pemphigus. | “Chuang Yang Jing Yan Quan Shu”, song dynasty, vol. 6. |
| Ji Yin Hui Chun decotion | Fresh Polygonum multiflorum, Radix Angelica Sinensis, White Peony Roots, Glycyrrhiza Uralemis Fisch, Raphanus Seed, Plantain Seed, Citrus Aurtantium, Tangerine Peel and Simmer Radix Aucklandiae. | Curing dysentery. | “Ci Hang Ji”, qing dynasty, vol. 4. |
| Ju Sheng Zi pill | Prepared Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Rehmanniae, Polygonum multiflorum, Achyranthes Root, Cistanche Deserticola, Fructus Dipsaci, Poria Cocos, Seed of Oriental Arborvitae, Morinda Officinalis How, Rhizoma Dioscorea, Radix Dipsaci and others. | Curing feeble pulse, asynodia. | “Dan Xi Xin Fa”, yuan dynasty, vol. 3. |
| Red bean powder | Polygala Tenuifolium, Polygonum multiflorum Peel, Red bean, Carthamus Tinctorius and Schizonepeta Tenuifolia Briq. | Curing ulcer. | “Gu Fang Jing Hui”, qing dynasty, vol. 2. |
| Zheng Qi decotion | Schizonepeta Tenuifolia Briq, Rhizome of Chuanxiong, Angelica Sinensis, Xia Qu, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Atractylodes Rhizome, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Tangerine Peel, Red Polygonum multiflorum, Citrus Aurtantium, Wrinkled Giant Hyssop and Cassia Twig. | Curing Pregnancy malaria | “Gu Fang Jing Hui”, qing dynasty, vol. 3. |
| San Xian pill | Polygonum multiflorum, Atractylodes Rhizome, Foeniculum Vulgare, Cyperus Rotundus, Fructus Toosendan, Concha Ostreae and White Ginger. | Curing epicophosis, dim vision and woman splenic blood disease. | “Pu Ji Fang” qing dynasty, vol. 219. |
| Gou Pi plaster | Citrus Aurtantium, Muscardine Silkworm, Alisma Orientale, Aconite Root, Phellodendron Bark, Polygonum multiflorum, Pinellia Ternate, Myrrha, Cortex Acanthopanacis Radices, Achyranthes Root, Platycodon Grandiflorum, Rhizoma Gastrodiae and others. | Curing osphyalgia, skelalgia and brachialgia. | Zhao et al. (2011a) |
| Huo Luo pellet | Tiger bone, Garter Snake, Deinagkistrodon, Radix Clematidis, Polygonum multiflorum, Rhizoma Coptidis, Rhizoma Gastrodiae, Boswellia Carterii, Myrrha, Rhizoma Typhonii, Scutellaria Baicalensis Root, Eucommia Ulmoides, Rhizome of Chuanxiong and others. | Curing rheumatic paralysis, acroanesthesia, low back and leg pain, arthralgia and myalgia, Phlegm heat syndrome. | Li et al. (2012c) |
| San Shen pill | Prepared Rhizome of Rehmannia, Cortex Moutan, Cynomorium Songaricum, Herba Cistanches, Poria Cocos, Barbary Wolfberry Fruit, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Radix Aconiti Carmichaeli, Rhizome of Chuanxiong, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Eucommia Ulmoides, Angelicae Sinensis, Polygonum multiflorum and others. | Curing kidney asthenia, aversion to cold, overwork asthma, limb fatigue, lower energizer asthenia cold, hypofunction reproduct. | Zhou. (2010) |
| Die Da Sun Shang wine | Musk, Boswellia carterii, Native Copper, Carthamus Tinctorious, Pseudo-ginseng, Rhizoma Cyperi, Rhizoma Curcumae, Aristolochiae Lignum, Radix Clematidis, Cynomorium Songaricum, Evodia Rutaecarpa, Polygonum multiflorum, Radix Liquiritiae, Radix Angelicae and others. | Curing traumatic injury. | Yuan et al. (2004) |
| Wu Mei Shang Yu decotion | Schisandra Chinensis, Fructus Mume, Fructus Corni, Radix Liquiritiae, Polygonum multiflorum, Herbaceous Peony, Fossil Fragments and Concha Ostreae. | Curing corectasis. | “Si Sheng Xin Yuan”, qing dynasty, vol. 8. |
| Gui Zhi Wu Ling decotion | Cassia Twig, Herbaceous Peony, Radix Liquiritiae, Polygonum multiflorum, Poria Cocos and Fructus Amomi. | Curing apoplexia and the left half hemiplegia. | “Si Sheng Xin Yuan”, qing dynasty, vol. 7. |
| Yu Feng pellet | Rhubarb, Mirabilite, Schizonepeta Tenuifolia Briq, Ephedra Intermedia, Gardenia Jasminoides Ellis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Fructus Forsythiae, Radix Liquiritiae, Polygonum multiflorum, Field Mint, Scutellaria Baicalensis Georgi, Rhizoma Gastrodiae and others. | Curing apoplexia. | “Zheng Zhi Bao Jian”, mngo, vol. 1. |
| Yi Gan Ning granule | Herba Hedyotis, Polygonum Filiforme, Mongolian Dandelion Herb, Cortex Moutan Radices, Poria Cocos, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Astragalus Mongholicus, Artemisia Capillaris Thumb, Codonopsis Pilosula, Polygonum multiflorum, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, White Peony Root and Fructus Toosendan | Curing chronic hepatitis, blood stasis blocking collaterals and damp heat toxin accumulation syndrome. | Yang and Zhang (1999) and Wu et al. (2001) |
| He Shou Wu granule | Polygonum multiflorum | Treatment of pregnancy constipation. | Zhu (2011) |
| Qi Shu decotion | Astragalus, Radix Codonopsis, Lycium, Donkeyhide Glue, Angelica Sinensis, Polygonum Multiflorum, Cauliss Patholobi, Glycyrrhiza Uralensis. | Treatment of NSCLC patients with leukopenia after Chemotherapy | Xiang and Han, (2013) |
| Zi Shen Bu Gan Fang | Polygonum Multiflorum, Polygonatum Canaliculatum, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Fructus Lycii. | Anti-aging | Wang (2012b) |
| Pei Bu Gan Shen Fomula | Fructus broussonetiae, Semen Astragali complanati, Prepared Rhizome of Rehmannia, Prepared Polygonum multiflorum, Glue of Tortoise Plastron, Fructus Lycii, Morinda Officinalis, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, Herba Cistanches and others. | Treatment Parkinson׳s disease and intestinal dysfunction | Chen (2013) |
| Ren Shen Shou Wu capsule | Radix Ginseng Rubra and Prepared Polygonum multiflorum. | Curing premature graying hair, insomnia, loss of appetite and body weakness due to qi-blood deficiency. | “Chinese Pharmacopoeia”, vol. 1. |
| Tian Ma Shou Wu tablets | Rhizoma Gastrodiae, Polygonum multiflorum, Radix Angelicae, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Rhizome of Chuanxiong, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Stir-baked Fructus Tribuli, Folium Mori, Herba Ecliptae, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Polygonatum Canaliculatum and Radix Liquiritiae. | Curing dizzy, headache, tinnitus, bitter mouth, dry pharynx, soreness and weakness of waist and knees due to the deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin. Curing cerebral arteriosclerosis, cluster headache syndrome and alopecia seborrheica. | “Chinese Pharmacopoeia”, vol. 1. |
| Xin Nao Kang capsule | Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Prepared Polygonum multiflorum, Red Paeony Root, Radix Puerariae, Carthamus Tinctorious, Root of Bidentate Achyranthes, Radix Curcumae, Barbary Wolfberry Fruit, Rhizome of Chuanxiong, Rhizoma Alismatis, Polygala Tenuifolia and others. | Curing thoracic obstruction, circumgyration, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris and cerebral arteriosclerosis. | “Chinese Pharmacopoeia”, vol. 1. |
| Xue Zhi Ning Pill | Rhizoma Alismatis, Cassia Seed, Hawkthorn and Prepared Polygonum multiflorum. | Curing hyperlipoidemia, dizziness, chest tightness and constipated. | “Chinese Pharmacopoeia”, vol. 1. |
| Jiang Zhi Ling tablets | Prepared Polygonum multiflorum, Barbary Wolfberry Fruit, Polygonatum Canaliculatum, Hawkthorn and Cassia Seed. | Curing hyperlipoidemia, dizziness, premature graying hair. | “Chinese Pharmacopoeia”, vol. 1. |