Table of Contents 1 Pinyin 2 English Reference 3 Overview 4 Latin Name 5 English Name 6 Alias of Snakeberry 7 Source 8 Original Plant Form 9 Place of Origin 10 Harvesting and Primary Processing 11 Sexual Flavors and Meridians 12 Efficacy and Indications of Snakeberry 13 Chemical Constituents of Snakeberry 14 Pharmacological Actions of Snakeberry 15 References Attachments: 1 Formulas used to the Chinese Medicine Snakeberry 2 Proprietary Chinese Medicines used to the Chinese Medicine Snakeberry 3 Snakeberry in Ancient Books 1 Pinyin

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2 English Reference

Duchesnea indica Fock. [Landau Chinese-English Dictionary]

Indian mockstrawberry herb [Xiangya Medical Dictionary]

Herba Duchesnea Indica (拉) [Nomenclature Review Committee of Chinese Medicine. Chinese Medicine Nomenclature (2004)]

Indian mock strawberry [中中醫学名词审定委员会. Nomenclature of Chinese medicine (2004)]

3 Overview

Snakeberry

Snakeberry is a Chinese medicine name, out of the "Famous Doctors of other books". For the Rosaceae plant snakeberry Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke [Fragaria indica Andr.] of the whole grass [1].

4 Latin name

Herba Duchesnea Indica (拉) ("Nomenclature of Chinese Medicine (2004)")

5 English name

Indian mock strawberry ("Nomenclature of Chinese Medicine (2004)"

Indian Mock strawberry Herb

Indian Mock Strawberry Herb

6 Snake berry alias

snake bubble grass, three pi wind, dragon spit pearl, three-clawed dragon.

Wild Poppy, Ground Berry, Three Leaf Cane, Claw Dragon, Snake Bubble Herb[2].

7 Sources

Snakeberry is the whole herb of snakeberry Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke [Fragaria indica Andr.] of the Rosaceae family [1].

Snakeberry is the whole herb of Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke [Fragaria indica Andr.], family Rosaceae [1].

Snakeberry is the whole herb of Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke [Fragaria indica Andr.], family Rosaceae [2].

8 Proto-phytomorphology

Perennial herb, white pilose throughout. The stem is slender, creeping, rooting at the nodes. Tricotyledonous leaves alternate, leaflets rhombic-ovate, 1.5-4cm long, 1-3cm wide, margins obtusely toothed, both surfaces sparsely lanceolate, stipulate; petiole as long as or several times as long as the ground blade, with upwardly ambiguous white pilose. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, long-stalked; epicalyx segments 5, notched, sepals 5, smaller than epicalyx segments; petals 5, yellow, obovate; stamens numerous, inserted on flattened receptacle. Receptacle inflated at maturity of aggregate fruit, spongy, red. Achenes small, numerous, red. Flowering April to May, fruiting May to June.

Born on slopes, roadsides, grassy, shady places.

9 Place of origin

Snakeberry is distributed in East China, Central and Southwest China.

The snakeberry is distributed throughout the south of Liaoning[2].

10 Harvesting and processing

Harvested in spring and fall, washed, dried or fresh.

11 Sexual flavor attribution

Snakeberry sex slightly cold, sweet, sour taste; a small poison.

Snakeberry flavor sweet, bitter, cold, with a small poison [2].

12 Efficacy and Indications of Snakeberry

Snakeberry has the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification, dispersing knots, used for dysentery, enteritis, diphtheria, cervical lymphatic tuberculosis, scalded by water and fire, snake bites, boils and swellings.

Snakeberry has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxification, dispersing knots[2]:

Snakeberry for cold and fever, cough, pediatric fever and convulsion, sore throat, diphtheria, dysentery, jaundice, hepatitis, diarrhea and dysentery, red and white with discharge, also for cancer: decoction, 9 ~ 15g, fresh products times the amount[2].

Snakeberry treatment of sores and boils, scrofula, burns, snake bites: decoction or mashed compress [2].

13 The chemical composition of snakeberry

Snakeberry seeds contain linoleic acid, β-sitosterol.

Snakeberry contains methoxy dehydrocholesterol. It also contains commiphoric acid, rhododendron, birch glycoside, wild rose paeoniflora glycoside, snakeberry glycoside, etc. The main fatty acid in the seed oil is linoleic acid, and the non-saponifiable substances are mainly β-sitosterol [2].

14 Pharmacological effects of snakeberry

Snakeberry has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, green pus, typhoid fever, metamorphosis, dysentery and other bacilli in vitro[2].