The old saying no prescription can be made without Yunnan medicinal materials suggests the profound heritage and extensive influence of Yunnan's ethnic medicine culture and medicinal plant resources. This book, A Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, continues the systematical introduction of the plant morphological characteristics, medicinal history, resource situation, traditional uses, ethnopharmacology, phytochemicals, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, and sustainable utilization of some important or endemic medicinal plants and mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, including Amomi Fructus, Amomum tsaoko, Angelica sinensis, Aucklandia costus, Gentiana rigescens, Phyllanthus emblica, and Polygonatum kingianu, Tricholoma matsutake, etc. Furthermore, this book offers strategies and advice for sustainable utilization and rational exploitation of medicinal plant resources in Yunnan, drawing on the basis of the author's years of practice in the field.
- Reviews species-specific natural products discovered from Yunnan medicinal plants, and their bio-activities.
- Provides a brief introduction to the commercial drugs and health products developed based on these medicinal plants.
- Discusses the resource availability and conservation status of these medicinal plants.
- For those threatened species, the causes of their endangerment are summarized and conservation strategies are proposed.
- Enhances understanding with high-quality original photographs and illustrations of the plants, their habitats, and usage in traditional remedies.
Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, continues the systematical introduction of the plant morphological characteristics, medicinal history, resource situation, traditional uses, ethnopharmacology, phytochemicals, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants
1. Yunnan Aucklandia cestus Falc.
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Hui-Ying Liu, Yunheng Ji, Hai-Yang Liu*, and Xin Fang*
2. Polygonatum kingianum Collett & Hemsl.: Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and
Application..................................................................
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Yan-Xi Li, Long-Gao Xiao, Xiao-Rong Guo*, and Hai-Yang Liu*
3. Yunnan Angelica sinensis (Oliv.)
Diels........................................................................
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Yan Zhao*, Sheng-Chao Yang, Khadija Tehseen Arshad, Juan Wang, Pin-Han Zhou,
and Chao-Hui Li
4. Traditional Uses, Chemistry, Bioactivity of Salvia yunnanensis C. H.
Wright..........
Rui-Qi Liu, Xin-Rong Xiang, Yunheng Ji*, and Xin Fang*
5. Paris Species in Yunnan
Province.....................................................................
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Shan-Shan Ling, Wei Ni, Huan Yan, Xin Fang, Yunheng Ji*, and Hai-Yang Liu*
6. Panax japonicus
complex......................................................................
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Mei-Ru Wang, Jia-Xin Huang, Hai-Yang Liu*, and Yunheng Ji*
7. Amomi Fructus: Resources, Traditional Application, Phytochemicals, and
Pharmacological
Activities...................................................................
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Rui Dong and Chang-An Geng*
8. Botany, Traditional Application, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of
Amomum
tsaoko.......................................................................
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Xiao-Lu Qin and Chang-An Geng*
9. Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology of the
Heartbreak Grass Gelsemium elegans (Gardner & Champ.) Benth.
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Sheng Li and Yu Zhang*
10. Tranditional Utilization, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Origanum
vulgare L.
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Xue-Yu Yang, Yunheng Ji*, and Hai-Yang Liu*
11. Gentiana rigescens Franch. ex Hemsl.
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Jia-Huan Shang, Na Li, Rong Fan, Hong-Tao Zhu, and Ying-Jun Zhang*
12. Phyllanthus emblica Linn.
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Na Li, Jia-Huan Shang, Hong-Tao Zhu, and Ying-Jun Zhang*
13. Botany, Chemistry, Bioactivity, and Biogeography of Spiraea japonica
Complex (Rosaceae)
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Qian Zhao and Xiao-Jiang Hao*
14. Tripterygium hypoglaucum (H. L“ev.)
Hutch...............................................................
Shi-Li Wu, Duo-Zhi Chen, and Xiao-Jiang Hao*
15. Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry, and Biological Activity of
Daphniphyllum
Species......................................................................
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Li-Li Xu and Xiao-Jiang Hao*
16. Five Popular Wild Edible Mushrooms in Yunnan: Tricholoma matsutake,
Boletus edulis, Thelephora ganbajun, Sarcodon imbricatus, and Russula
virescens...............
Hui Liu, Yan-Xi Li, Mei-Ru Wang, Wei Ni, HuanYan, Hai-Yang Liu*
17. Sustainable Utilization and Rational Exploitation of Medicinal Plant
Resources in Yunnan
Province.....................................................................
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Yunheng Ji*, Hai-Yang Liu, Xin Fang, Chenjin Yang
Hai-Yang Liu is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He finished his Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry (1994) at Sichuan University (Chengdu University of Science and Technology). Then, he received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2005 from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he worked in the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines of KIB, CAS and as a visiting scholar at University of Mississippi in 2014. He was promoted to Full Professor (2014).
Yunheng Ji is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, and the CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is an expert in the monocotyledonous families, Asparagaceae and Melanthiaceae, as well as aquatic angiosperms. His research focuses on the evolution, conservation, and sustainable utilization of economically important, endemic, and endangered (3E) plant taxa, involving in molecular phylogenetics, evolutionary and functional genomics, biogeography, plant taxonomy, and population genetics.
Xing Fang is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. By comprehensively utilizing techniques such as molecular biology, biochemistry, and phytochemistry, his research focuses on the study of novel structural active secondary metabolites in plants, using phytochemical methods to discover new structurally active natural products, and employing genomics, transcriptomics, enzymology, and other methods to analyze the biological metabolic pathways and enzymatic mechanisms of highly active metabolites.
