The roots are a commonly used ginseng substitute in Russia, China and Korea. The drug (Eleutherococci radix, Rhizoma et radix Eleutherococci, корневище и корень элеутерококка колючего, Taigawurzel) was introduced to modern medicine by scientists of the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century. The effects are described as immune stimulating/modulating, anabolic, and adaptogen. Ingredients from different chemical groups have been called eleutherosides: lignans like sesamin (eleutheroside B4) and syringaresinol (eleutheroside E), phenylpropane derivatives like the sinapyl alcohol glucoside syringin (eleutheroside B, 0.1-0.5%), coumarines like the 7-O-glucisde of isofraxidin (eleutheroside B1), and triterpene saponins (0.125%, eleutherosides I-M), and sugars like methyl-α-D-galactoside (eleutheroside C).\\ | The roots are a commonly used ginseng substitute in Russia, China and Korea. The drug (Eleutherococci radix, Rhizoma et radix Eleutherococci, корневище и корень элеутерококка колючего, Taigawurzel) was introduced to modern medicine by scientists of the Soviet Union in the second half of the 20th century. The effects are described as immune stimulating/modulating, anabolic, and adaptogen. Ingredients from different chemical groups have been called eleutherosides: lignans like sesamin (eleutheroside B4) and syringaresinol (eleutheroside E), phenylpropane derivatives like the sinapyl alcohol glucoside syringin (eleutheroside B, 0.1-0.5%), coumarines like the 7-O-glucisde of isofraxidin (eleutheroside B1), and triterpene saponins (0.125%, eleutherosides I-M), and sugars like methyl-α-D-galactoside (eleutheroside C).\\ |
[Teedrogen, Max Wichtl, 2016, 234-236] | [Wolfgang Blaschek ed., Wichtl - Teedrogen und Phytopharmaka: Ein Handbuch für die Praxis, 2015, 234-236] |
picture source: Flora of China, Harvard, [[http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=94552&flora_id=2]] | picture source: Flora of China, Harvard, [[http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=94552&flora_id=2]] |