| Family |
Polygonaceae |
| Subfamily |
Polygonoideae |
| Scientific name |
Bistorta officinalis Delarbre subsp. japonica (H. Hara) Yonekura |
| Synonyms |
Bistorta major S. F. Gray var. japonica H. Hara; Bistorta vulgaris auct.,
non Hill; Polygonum bistorta auct., non L. |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) ibuki-tora-no-o (イブキトラノオ, 伊吹虎尾 [meaning: Mt. Ibuki
tiger tail]) |
| (English common name) none |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu |
| (Other nations) none (Bistorta officinalis Delarbre subsp. officinalis: northern hemisphere) |
| Habitat |
Alpine, asubalpine or mountane wet field |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=44, 46 |
| Description |
Plants electing 50-120cm tall. Leaves 8-20cm long, 2-5cm wide. Flowers
white or pink inflorescence 3-8cm, long. perianths ca. 3mm long, flowering
in June to September. Perrenial plants. |
| Reference |
Bistorta officinalis Delarbre |
| Bistorta officinalis Delarbre |
| Cosmetic compositions for the treatment of the hair and skin contain in
the form of a powder particles resulting from the pulverization of at least
one plant substance and a cohesion agent (US Patent 4569839/1986) |
| Agent containing an ellagic acid series compound for external application
and use thereof (US Patent 5073545/1991) |
| Chinese herbal extracts in the treatment of HIV related disease in vitro
(US Patent 5178865/1993) |
| Use of plant extracts for treatment of HIV, HCV and HBV infections (US
Patent 5837257/1998) |
| Compositions of matter useful in the treatment of viral infections derived
from plant extracts (US Patent 5989556/1999) |
| Topical composition for application to the skin containing an ellagic acid-based
compound or salt thereof (US Patent 6066312/2000) |
| Process for preparing an anti-viral medicinal product from plant extracts
(US Patent 6214350/2001) |
| Medicinal herbal composition for treating liver diseases and HIV (US Patent
6455078/2002) |
| Method for making herbal extracts using percolation (US Patent 6656437/2003) |
| Apparatus for making herbal extracts using percolation (US Patent 6555074/2003) |
| Herbal pharmaceutical composition for treatment of HIV/AIDS patients (US
Patent 6696094/2004) |
| Pharmaceutical composition having prophylactic effects on lamivudine-related
disease relapse and drug resistance and methods of using the same (US Patent
6855346/2005) |
| Method for making herbal extracts using percolation (US Patent 7033619/2006) |
| Drugs, foods and oral compositions containing stilbene-type compounds (US
Patent 7163961/2007) |
| Note |
Many authors have described that Japanese species should be identified
as Bistorta officinalis Delarbre subsp. officinalis (syn. Bistorta vulgaris Hill; Polygonum bistorta L.).
If the Japanese species should be identified as Bistorta officinalis subsp. japonica but not as Bistorta officinalis subsp. officinalis then legal varidity and covering scope of many patents on Polygonum bistorta (synonym of Bistorta officinalissubsp. officinalis) might be in doubt. |
